![]() JONES: Well, I was - well, first, it was like Jamie - when Jamie started performing, I was like, oh, there's other comedians other than Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor and Whoopi Goldberg who know how to do this type of comedy 'cause it's a certain type of comedy. And so you were like, I'm going to blow Jamie away. Well, Magic Johnson used to own The World. MOSLEY: And then when you were 19, a young Jamie Foxx was the headliner for this club called The World. It was like I had already been doing it and didn't know I had been doing it. It almost felt like I saw a line leave from the mic and just went out, and it was like, oh, that's the path I'm taking. It's almost like putting on a shirt and going, oh, God, this shirt fits. Like, oh, my God, this fits like a glove. ![]() JONES: I can't even explain it more than when I grabbed the mic, I just remember thinking, I've been doing this forever already. And you say that the moment you picked up the mic, you walked on the stage, it was like a religious experience. MOSLEY: So this contest was the funniest person on campus contest. MOSLEY: Your friend entered you in this contest - Colorado State University. One day, that I would play Whoopi Goldberg. I always thought I was going to be an actress, that. JONES: You know? So when it came down to it, like, and my friend entered me in the contest, I was like, I'm not a comic. And I was emulating a lot of comics that I would watch. I thought as myself as just, like, I just liked to have fun. Every time I meet somebody from the past, they go, yeah, you was crazy. But you didn't see yourself in Richard Pryor. ![]() MOSLEY: You'd - when you were young - and I'm talking, like, when you were young, young - comedy wasn't something you saw yourself being in. They tried, but what the problem was is that I knew what I was, but I didn't tell them because I felt like they wouldn't get it. ![]() And up until I got "SNL," nobody really knew what to really do with me. They knew that I was an entity they just did not know. I knew I was funny, and I knew that they didn't know what I was. MOSLEY: How many moments did you have like that? I mean. How long am I going to have to do this until somebody realizes that I'm actually funny? When she's reading the credits, I was just like, I went back to sitting in my living room and thinking, oh, God. Yeah 'cause I was just like, wow, that's so crazy. MOSLEY: Got to love when a conversation starts. Leslie Jones was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for her work on "Saturday Night Live." And in 2016, she starred in "Ghostbusters." In 2021, she starred opposite Eddie Murphy in "Coming 2 America," for which she won an MTV Movie and TV Award. In the book, Jones also shares details of her life that she's never spoken about before - her life growing up as a military brat, working comedy clubs in a male-dominated field and the mistakes and lessons she learned along the way. For years, she worked odd jobs to get by while doing comedy shows everywhere. MOSLEY: In her new memoir, simply titled "Leslie Effing Jones" - I can't say the actual word on the radio - Jones makes clear that she's no overnight success. I didn't know you was allowed to run for the president while you was already running from the popo (ph). JONES: The man's indicted in every state in America. JONES: What the, America? How did y'all let this happen? - 'cause this ain't my fault. Can you believe he is the leading candidate? He's talking about throwing his opponents in jail when he should literally be in jail. LESLIE JONES: This man is calling American citizens vermin when he is literally the definition of vermin. And last week she guest hosted "The Daily Show." Here she is responding to Trump's comments that, if president again, he would root out the vermin in this country. She became known for her hilarious Weekend Update reports as well as her outrageous sketches playing everyone from Whoopi Goldberg to Donald Trump. Jones was on "Saturday Night Live" for five seasons, first as a writer, then as a cast member. But that detail might just be the least interesting thing about her. When comedian and actress Leslie Jones joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live" in 2014, she held the distinction of being the oldest person to ever join the cast at 47 years old.
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