But her book also shows how much craft and hard work are in the creative success equation.īrunson still finds herself doing Philly things like filling a gift box with “oils and incense and Frooties,” which a friend pointed out was “the most Philly box I’ve ever seen in my life.” On Thursday, June 17, she will appear at a virtual event with poet Jasmine Mans at Philly’s Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books at 7 p.m. The internet has been a place of opportunity for young Black female comedians like Brunson, she says, a “space for marginalized voices,” a vehicle that shows, “how powerful, lo-fi, and accessible creativity could be.” Being a meme - an image, text, or video, shared over and over, morphing into cultural significance as millions get in on the joke - is one thing. “Internet kids are more famous to the next generation than Kevin Hart.” “That line does not exist,” she said, speaking of the internet versus more traditional ways of creating. “I refuse to turn my back on it,” Brunson said in a recent phone interview from Los Angeles, where the West Philly native moved to further her comedy, writing, and acting career, but was so homesick for the city that “has culture coming up through the cracks of the sidewalks” that she had to throw a party to “replicate the Philly feeling I’d been missing.”
