Quinta Brunson kept it hilariously real on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast when she opened up about something she says with full honesty: She doesn’t really know a lot of white celebrities. “I don’t know white people,” the Abbott Elementary star said plainly, cracking both herself and Amy up.
When Amy asked her longtime friend and Abbott co-writer Kate Peterman for fun questions to include in their chat, Kate didn’t hold back. “Ask her if Quinta now knows if Bon Jovi and Jon Bon Jovi are two different things because she asked me in confidence in a little whisper, she was like, ‘Are Bon Jovi and Jon Bon Jovi the same guy?’”
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Quinta immediately called her out with a laugh. “Don’t go through Amy to do that. That’s not nice, Kate. That’s not okay, Kate.” She then admitted that Bon Jovi isn’t the only famous face from the ’80s she’s still unsure about. “I just like don’t know some people. I understand the name Phil Collins. I don’t know what Phil Collins looks like,” she said.
Amy chimed in with a perfect pop culture nod: “Sorry to that man,” quoting Keke Palmer’s viral moment when she didn’t recognize former Vice President Dick Cheney. Quinta related completely. “That Keke moment was so on point. That is how I move through life. If they’re not in comedy, truly, I don’t know,” she said.
Quinta emphasized that it’s not that she’s clueless — it’s just not her world. “I don’t have a reason to know who — I’m not crazy! It’s crazy to be in a band called Jon — is he Jon Bon Jovi, or is the band Bon — see. I couldn’t tell. It’s crazy.”
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Amy took a moment to break it down for her: “His original name was Jon Bongiovi, and the band name was Bon Jovi, a shortened version of his real name, so then he started going by Jon Bon Jovi. But true fans know that it was Bongiovi.”
Quinta may not know all the white rock stars, but her honest, funny take had listeners cracking up — and maybe even feeling a little seen.
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