Drama Queens - Leslie Jones - part 2
Episode Date: July 31, 2026More LOL and NSFW wisdom from Leslie Jones! Hear the brutally honest advice Jamie Foxx gave Leslie, what blew her mind (and bruised her ego) at the SNL table reads, and the surprising truth she discov...ered while touring America.Leslie Jones hosts “Roast My Rental” on HGTV with episodes streaming the next day on HBO Max. And to learn more about her tour, follow Leslie on instagram or visit justleslie.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, everyone. It's Sophia.
Welcome to Work in Progress.
Hey, friends, we are back on Work in Progress with perhaps the best guest ever, the iconic Leslie Jones.
It's so interesting to me because, you know, college contest and you won.
And of course, that tells you something.
And, like, we all know how hard this industry is, comedy, career.
careers are tough, the travel, trying to get time, trying to get up on stage. You hear about the
setbacks and then like Chris Rock helped you get into the S&L orbit. Like how, how did you go from
college to this? Hey, Fernando, Fernando, bring me that article. I had the article. They wrote
an article on me when I did the contest. Yeah. Kelly Clarkston found it. The
thing with Chris Rock was, it was so weird because every time I would see him, I was like,
you know how funny I am. The only way I'm going to make it is if you help me make it. Like,
you help me make it. Like, it's going to have to be a guy. Hey, hey, that article that's right
there in my office, the article that Kelly Clarkson got me. It's right there in the office.
I think it's in a frame. Anyway, and I'm like, Chris, every time I would see him, I'd be like,
Chris, I mean, I would literally run out to his car with him and be like, Chris, Chris, what the fuck?
And I remember him saying, you're not, you're not ready.
Now, he tells the story saying they not ready.
And I was like, no, motherfucker, you used to say it to me.
You're like, you said it was me.
And I was like, how are you talking about I'm not ready?
How are you talking about I'm not ready?
I am ready.
Yes, this is so crazy.
So this is the article that they wrote.
Now,
now,
I know what kills me is that
when they entered,
when they interviewed me,
I said,
I think a good comedian,
this is,
this is me at 19.
I think a good comedian
should be able to relate
to the audience and talk about
things in a natural way.
Who is that person?
Who the fuck is that person?
And where did I
you know,
and the jokes I had,
literally would work now.
I told a joke about my mom wanted me to be famous.
She wanted me to be famous so bad that she would leave me in the grocery store.
So then they would put me on the back of a milk carton.
You remember when they used to put the missing kids on the milk carton?
I sure do.
Somebody say.
Have you seen me?
Yeah.
Have you seen me?
Have you seen this little girl?
And she said that, I said that when somebody go, girl, I saw your daughter on a milk carton.
She'd be like, she's moving.
up. That was literally my first joke. And I, I'm like, okay, so I know what it's supposed to be
about, right? I know what comedy and I'm thinking jokes. Then I go back, I leave college.
I go back to L.A. to start trying to do comedy and I'm not doing good because I'm not
understanding that comedy is jokes, yes, but comedy is also what you said, the natural way.
It's don't talk about shit that don't have nothing to do with you.
So that's why I saw, I opened up for Jamie Fox, did terrible.
And the story is that I got my friend to, you know, you know, like, you're going to have to take one for the team.
Like, you know, I stick her in that the guy who was best friends with Jamie, like he liked her.
And I was like, you have to take one for the team because I need to, I need to, you know, talk to Jamie.
So the only talk to Jamie is that if we can hang out with them.
So she did.
She took one for the team.
and and Jamie told me exactly what I need to hear.
He said, you're so young, you don't have shit to talk about.
He was like, I know you think you have stuff to talk about, but you don't.
You're talking about your fucking uncle and Mill Cardin, that shit don't even sound real.
He was like, and even if it was funny, you're not experienced enough to tell the joke.
He was like, go out and have a life.
Go live your life.
go get your heartbroken, go break some hearts, go get jobs, go get fired, go have a life.
Yeah.
And I was like, yeah, that's exactly what I did.
God, that's great advice.
It was absolutely great advice.
And just like you said, it found me in the first place.
It found me again after that.
In 93, I got into our argument with the girl, the girl that we were living together.
And we got into this argument and she was like, yeah, and you always talking about you want to be a
fucking comedian, but you don't go up.
And I was just like,
I went upstairs and I called the
Comedy Act Theater, Michael Williams.
And he just so happened was answering the phone
and answered the phone, the owner
of the club. And I said,
Hey, how do you do comedy? If I wanted
to be a comedian, like,
what would I do? Like, how would I get time
and how would I do that? And he was like,
are you funny? And I was like, man,
I really do think I am, but I just don't know.
I've never really been up.
He was like, all right, come down, 7.30.
Wow.
I was there at 7 o'clock.
Sitting in the parking lot trying to talk myself out of doing it.
I was like, what the fuck are you doing here?
Wow.
Like, what are you doing here?
I don't know if this is going to work out like him.
And I was just so petrified.
And I remember going inside and there was three comedians there.
And this is my first lesson in comedy is they were like, what kind of jokes you got?
And I was like, oh, I got jokes about this, this.
And it was like somebody else already got those jokes.
And then it was the first lesson that, and it was always something,
because what people didn't understand is I came from the hood.
Like I came from like crackheads, crack dealers.
You know, I came from like a hood where you had to be smart anyway.
So like it's like taking the street to the street knowledge that I have told me,
yeah, they're trying to fuck with me.
Like, why are you talking to me?
Why?
If I'm not nothing, then why you're talking to me?
You must not be nothing, too, because you hear at 7 o'clock.
Because if you were something, when you be here when the club is, you know.
Yeah.
Wouldn't you be here at 10?
Yeah.
I wasn't stupid, right?
So I was like, all right, whatever.
And I remember performing that night and I didn't get booed.
And it was, people were laughing.
So when I came off stage, the manager, not the manager I talked to, but the manager that runs the room, Sharon, who today, I really feel like every club needs to share.
She was a gatekeeper.
She's the one to go, don't come back to my club unless you're funny.
Like, don't come back here.
But she came up to me.
She said, oh, you got potential.
You got a lot of potential.
She was like, keep writing and keep coming back.
Keep coming back.
I have time for you.
So I was like, great.
And I started getting better and better.
And at three months, I won a contest.
I beat like veterans.
Wow.
I beat veterans.
So, you know, at three months, you're thinking, you know, you're a little cocky.
You're like, oh, shit, I must be, this is what, you know, hey, this is how Rich Pryor did it.
I bet your Rich Pryor did like this.
And it's just lessons you got to learn.
I remember meeting David Chappelle.
And at that time, too, I was, oh, I was a hot bitch.
Ooh, I was hot.
I mean, I'm not saying I'm not hot now, but I'm saying I'm a different type of hot.
I was.
I understand that.
Long hair, beautiful body because I just, you know, stop playing basketball.
So my body was just like, pow, pow, pow, and just gorgeous.
And I'm talking about, oh, my God, like I said, I'm so glad I came from the street because them comedians, some of the lines they would give me.
And I always knew never get high on your own supply.
It's the same thing.
Never shit when you don't fuck people you work with, right?
I already had the ruling.
I learned that less on the hard way.
Yeah, no, no, you, we all do.
But we all.
I talk about I fuck this dude.
And I knew I shouldn't have did that.
I could have fucked the dude next door.
It was the same guy.
Um, so I know. Oh my God.
You know, you learn that, but that, you know, the media, the, yeah, if you, you, you, you can come on the road with me, but you got to have sex with me. Like, you know, you, they.
Ew.
Landish shit that people would say to me.
Men are so embarrassing. I would, and I, and I would just check the fire. I wouldn't fuck you with my enemy's pussy. Go away.
You know, I was just like, you know, and I would make them laugh, but like, you'll never touch me.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
You have to, it's just so many things that I was learning in that three months.
Yeah.
I remember talking to a veteran, and I was like, how long is it going to take me to make it?
I was like, how long is it going to take me to be like the funniest bitch?
Because I really wanted to be funny.
I made a prayer to God before I started.
I said, if I'm not funny, then, you know, let me still be in the field.
But if I don't want to be a comedian if I'm funny.
I want to be it if I'm just pretend funny.
And as I put to work into it.
And he told me he was like 10 years.
He was like, you got to get all that bullshit out.
He was like, first three years is you telling fart jokes and pussy jokes and ass jokes.
He was like, that's the two or three year old telling jokes.
Like, you know.
Right.
Yeah, you have to mature as a comedian.
As a storyteller.
Yeah, you got to be, you got to learn how to be on stage.
You got to learn if you're going to have a drink on stage.
If you're going to hold them.
You got to learn all that stuff.
He was like, and then your fourth and fifth year is when you start kind of making money off of your shit.
He said, it may be a little earlier because you are funny.
He was like, but you still got to pay dues.
It's just you just got to pay them.
You know, you got to go through hecklers.
I went through all the stages of it, you know, so.
Yeah.
And I tell comedians, when you try to skip the stage, you're not doing any good for you as an entertainer or for your audience.
you're not doing anyone any good it's always good to have a I always think three pigs three pigs
three pigs three pigs the one that lived is the one that had the bricks he had a strong foundation
your shit can't blow away you got it and the only way you can have a strong foundation is to work
you don't want a doctor that just said woke up one day and said I'm gonna be a doctor
you want a doctor that's been trained that's been in the field that knows that's had experience
when I went to go get my knee checked I remember my my um
telling me make sure that he does surgery he that he this is not no every once in a while
shit make sure that he has set a surgery schedule every week like you ask him do you do surgery
or is this just a case you take it on and I remember my knee doctor laughing he was like that's a
good question he said I do all the left knees on Wednesday and all the right knees on
Thursday and I was just like loved love you know what I mean it's shit like that yeah
then he's confident because you don't want a doctor that's going to be like
I think I'm good.
You know, people tell me, you don't want that.
And that's what makes me mad that when people see that type of confidence on me,
I promise, Sophia, I don't know what it is.
But when people see that type of confidence on me, everybody tries to break it.
Well, the world hates a confident women.
And frankly, people are very jealous of anyone who makes an artistic life.
And so I think the envy and also the loathing from this fucking, you know,
white heteronormative patriarchy we all suffer under.
Like, I think it really bends people out of shape to see women embody themselves
and laugh at themselves and survive their mistakes and thrive in their careers.
Like, they really get butt hurt about it.
And I'm telling you, it's a thing, and you see it.
Like they go, first of all, they go, oh, this is just a, this is a fluke.
This is a fluke that she's, she's getting lucky.
And then they see I'm not lucky.
And then they go, oh, she's arrogant.
We need to break her down.
Yeah.
I'm not saying that that happened with everybody at S&L, because Lauren had much respect for me.
The one thing that I loved about Lauren Michaels is that he knew exactly who I was.
He knew exactly what I could do.
He understood me in a way.
And he loved it because he loved it because he was like, oh, like, you know how to work a room.
You know how to be this when it needs to be this.
You know how to be this when it needs to be this.
He says, you know how to work.
So that's the one thing that Lord.
But the people, some of the people that work there were just very, how can I put it?
Like, you just, you're just, I can't explain.
it's like you're just too
you're too
what confident
like I know what I want
I'm sorry I know what I want
I know you think you know everything
and that was the thing
there were people that worked there for years
and they think they knew everything
which they probably did
but you don't know me motherfucker
yeah like you should be open to learning
you should like when I go into
hair rooms and all that
I always say the white hair
people should be able to do black hair.
Yes.
Black hair people know how to do white hair.
Like I'm very much vocal on shit like that because I feel like, like building your
portfolio is a very important thing.
Yes.
You can never know everything.
And I learned that.
I learned that again coming up in comedy.
You're always going to learn.
They threw me into SNL as a stand-up to a sketch comic.
And that shit is not fucking easy to, to, to, to,
and baby my ego had to learn that.
Yeah.
Because I'm gonna tell you, I didn't go in there with respect for a sketch comedy.
I didn't go in there with no respect.
I was like, these are sketch comics.
These are motherfuckers who couldn't make it and stand up.
That's the attitude I had.
And baby, I sat down to that table read.
And these motherfuckers commenced to doing shit that I have never seen before.
Yeah.
Kate McKinnon and a change.
Changing her accents in a next level.
Keenan changing his accents and doing.
Cecily doing literally raw characters.
I was just, I literally was at the table like this.
The whole time, like I can't.
That's so cool.
I was missing my lines because I was so like,
Oh my God.
And they love that.
They loved me because I was their audience.
Seriously, I sat down like I was about to watch a show
every table read and they loved it
because I reacted exactly how
I'm telling you this is how the audience
is going to react to that shit. If I didn't
laugh, most likely that sketch didn't get
on because it was
my first year
it was like Wonderland
being in those stuff. Yeah, it's like you win the
lottery once a week. Come on.
And that's how I play and that's how
I act and that's why I brought a spirit
there because I would come on Saturday and I would
literally yell, we play in baseball
tonight motherfuckers.
Like, it was three.
You know, you pumped the whole room up, you know?
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You know what?
I think about that a lot.
Like, you know, I have not been in that world yet.
I would love to at some point.
Like, I love S&L and I love comedy.
But it's like to be in love with what you do, I think is so important.
And also to love art.
like I noticed something
like I'll go to a show
especially if you go like somewhere in LA
or somewhere in New York and like everyone's like standing
around watching the singer sing
kind of like maybe doing that
I'm fuck I'm ass on the floor
screaming dancing like
my friends and I are the people who will get the whole
room dancing
I'm like we are at a show like
have the time of your life and make that person
who is up there
doing his or her thing, feel good.
And like, let me tell you,
it's so important.
The first gala I went to Bruno Mars was performing, right?
So I'm sitting beside 80.
And I'm like, okay, I don't know about y'all, but I got to dance.
And I jumped out and said, okay, he came and started performing for me and my table because
it was like nobody else.
But by the end of that night, everybody was out they seat.
Yes.
And everybody had the time of their life, didn't they?
And he, I remember him saying to me, girl, thank you.
He was like, because they wouldn't do it shit.
I have the most fun.
Yes.
Because, you know, like, I've had such, so many things happen to make you go,
all right, you could either be fucking a bum and just be depressed and just die.
Or you could take this as a lesson that life is be liven.
and you better life, life.
Yeah.
Doesn't that make sense?
You better give it right back.
Can I ask you something?
I'm so, you know, because that's clearly
part of your spirit and it's your tenacity
and it's all these things.
And I wonder when you reflect,
especially on SNL,
like, do you think
it gives you a perspective
because not only is it comedy, but it's so topical?
Like you are able to really
reflect on the world around us, you are able to make fun of all the politicians. I mean,
I think about Melissa McCarthy doing Sean Spicer. I think about like, God, I think about you had to
be there when Trump hosted in 2015. But I think about that, but we, I didn't at that time, Sophia,
I didn't, he wasn't the president. And I thought it was hilarious. Everybody in New York was
something. He sucks. Everybody was so pissed he was coming. But I thought it was hilarious.
because I'm like he's the apprentice
he's harmless. I literally
was like he's fucking harmless.
Like he's a mosquito. Why who cares?
He's the fucking apprentice. What the fuck?
I didn't know he was dangerous
until the host mill.
And that's when
Melania, Jared, and Evanka
was there and I remember
I remember looking at Taryn
and I said Taryn, I think
I'm supposed to kill this whole side of the table.
And he was like, can I get my food first?
let me get my food and get it to go and then do whatever you need to do because and I always think back to
that said was I supposed to because like none of this would be going on if I would be in jail yes but I might have saved it
and everybody was like no it's okay oh my god it's okay that you didn't murder the whole I love it
I also love that you'll just say it like something I love about you you know everybody fucking thinks it and they know
what the rational is.
Come on.
In all the years that I've been a fan of your work,
like you're not especially politically cautious.
You're blunt.
You're willing to say the thing.
Like, has that ever cost you?
Do you ever get scared?
I mean, shit's cost me for sure.
So I'm like, I don't know.
I had to really learn how to deal with the business part of this business.
you can't talk to certain people in a certain way because they can't take it.
Like you have to, like I can be real and I usually am very real, but what I learned is I, as the star, can't say it.
I have to get someone else to say it.
I got to always look pristine and even when I handle something, it has to be.
But what I've learned and then my mistakes is how to kind of.
to be in the middle with it. I speak. I don't yell anymore because I used to yell because I used to
think that's the only way people could hear me because it always seemed like that's the only time
that people would do what I asked when I would go the fuck off or when I would yell. But then I started
learning that you're going to love this. So I live my life by the god, or the godfather, a little bit,
just by the brothers. Okay. So sometimes I can be sunny. But sometimes if I'm sunny, I might get shot.
up at the tow booth. So sometimes I can only use Sunny every once in a while. Sunny cannot come out.
Because like everybody's scared of Sunny. Everybody, not my assistants. My assistants do not like
when Sunny come out, but they know how to handle Sunny. Like my assistants are great. They know
how to handle Sunny. And my friends know how to handle Sunny, Sunny. But the people outside of
my circle don't know how to handle Sunny. Yeah. Sunny is very, like you said, blunt, what the
fuck, why is this fucking happening?
I need, you know what I'm saying?
So Sonny's can't come out.
So sometimes I'm Frato,
very vulnerable and like,
okay, but I don't understand why this can't happen.
Like, okay, okay, okay,
I'm just telling you all right now that this is what I'm,
that's Frado.
Michael is the motherfucker that just
it's patient.
And he says what he wants
and he doesn't repeat it because you heard me
the first time.
I don't have to repeat what it is.
You've worked with me before.
You know that I don't take no bullshit.
Go talk to my manager.
Like he would send him to Tom, his lawyer.
Go talk to Tom.
You don't get to talk to me unless I want to be present.
So that's how sometimes you have to handle the business.
I love that.
And everybody has a Sonny.
Everybody has a Michael.
Everybody has a freedom.
I love about my writer Lenny, he'll go, I need you to be Michael. I need you to be Michael today.
Wow. I love that. Okay. Good. Okay. And then he'll be like sunny. I love it. I love it.
The three boys from the Godfather and the three ghosts of Christmas past. We've really,
we've really covered some shit today. This is what I'm saying. Sophia. When you listen to stuff
like this, right, and you hear this, right? We as humans, we know what, right? We know what,
right and wrong is.
Yeah.
We know what right and wrong is.
Now there's a such thing is that if you don't know, then that's, we'll give you the plausible,
you know,
deniability, but you do better when you know better.
And stop fighting your conscience.
Your conscience is trying to tell you to grow and it's okay to grow.
You guys always think of things like this, painful, is suffering, oh, I'm going through,
no, you're growing.
You're growing.
your mind doesn't want
fuck shit no more
your mind is telling you I want to grow
and you keep feeding me shit
and there's a lot of us that fight
that because a lot of us think
I just want to be a normal person
I just want to go to work every day
I want to pay my bills
I want to come home and watch TV I want to do
no no no no one is normal
no one is fucking normal
no one is excluded from what it is
that your fucking fate and your job
is even if it's just being a teacher
even if it's being a crossing
even if it's just getting up and fucking giving people compliments every day you have a job you
are a specific piece of art that was made by God and you have one purpose in life and that is to be you
stop trying to be other people because that you fell in the mission be you you are special there's
something about you something about you that you're supposed to be given to someone and that's what
I always tell everybody the only way that we're going to beat what's going on right now
Now, it's very obvious.
The only way, the only way that this gets beat is that everybody has to start digging deeper into themselves.
Digging deeper into themselves because the only thing that's going to beat this much hate is love.
Yeah.
I promise you don't want to hear that, but that's the only thing that's going to, if we.
But it's true.
Even the fights between the races, the Asians now hate the blacks and then the Mexicans hate the Asian.
All that shit is for a reason.
to keep us bundled up so we don't fight what the fuck is really right there in front of us.
If we're busy fighting each other, we're not fighting the top of the power structure.
That part, that part, Sophia.
That's what has to change.
That is what has to change.
Absolutely.
It starts inside.
It starts inside.
Everybody needs to think about what it is that they are as a person.
What it is that they receive.
How do you receive love?
Start there because you can't give what you don't have.
You can't give.
And if you look inside yourself, you'll look and see that you haven't, like, I tell people all
time, whenever somebody be like, oh, I'm just so fucking stupid, don't say that.
Talk about yourself like that.
Don't talk.
Yourself doesn't know when you're fucking joking.
Yourself don't know.
It just takes it in.
And it builds that little bad thing that attaches on you and now you got that shit.
Stop doing that.
Yeah.
Like when you've done something to be like, oh, man.
I can't believe I did that.
Well, let's not make that mistake again.
Do that.
Yes, you're right.
Do that.
Because would you tell your friend that?
Would you say to your friend, you're dumber it?
You're so fucking stupid.
Why would you make that?
You wouldn't talk to your friend like that.
You wouldn't talk to your kids like that.
Why do you talk to yourself like that?
You go to sleep with yourself.
You see yourself in the morning.
You eat with yourself.
You're pissed with yourself.
You're sick with yourself.
You're sick with yourself.
You better start locking yourself.
That's your best friend.
Stop it.
Stop.
I can't wait.
I can't wait to clip that audio and make it my ringtone.
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I want to talk with you all day
and I also want to pump up with it.
Me too.
Sophia, we have to be friends.
Do you live in that way?
For real.
What have I seen you on?
I recognize that mold.
I don't know what I've seen you on.
What have I seen you on?
I recognize that mode.
You look like a...
If you...
But not Kristen Bell.
If you like cop stuff, did you watch Chicago Pudy?
I so watch.
And like SVU?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What?
I've seen your face.
I don't forget a face, Sophia.
Oh, my God, I'm excited.
Now I'm going to go.
I love this.
You are gorgeous.
You sweet, sweet fucking.
I mean, the whole ponytail with the park in the middle, big.
This is just because my hair's dirty.
And then you got the rings.
You got the rings on.
Like you're about to pop a bitch in the face.
Listen.
You talk about the godfather.
I'm like,
I was joking about this.
I got to host the view last week.
And I'm like sitting there talking shit with Whoopi and Sunny.
And, you know, I was like, look, things are crazy.
I don't know.
All these people need to go to jail.
Like Michelle Obama says when they go low, we go high.
Like, my mom was raised in the Bronx.
When you go low, I'm going to meet you in the fucking gutter.
I'm done it.
When you go low, I'm going to hell.
Yes.
When Sunny goes, Sunny goes, I'm going to the core of the earth.
I said, okay, that's the mood for 2026.
But it's like, for you, you're out on a stand-up tour right now.
And I think about this, because obviously you're talking to people in cities all over the place about what's going on.
You're making it funny, but you're giving people pep talks.
And you are also traveling around the nation.
Like some places you go are going to be less receptive than others.
No.
What's like the core of the tour?
Where are you going?
How are you thinking about talking to people in 2026?
I go everywhere.
I go everywhere.
And you know what's amazing?
See, you could tell by a comedian, their audience.
My audience is so amazing.
They tip.
They're nice.
They're polite.
They're there for comedy.
It's a great audience.
But you know what's so crazy, I have fans that I don't.
And when I see them in the audience, I go, oh, you're like, what?
That's really cool, you know what I'm saying?
But I don't see what I see on the Internet.
I see a whole different type of people.
They're all beautiful.
This is why we need to be together.
Exactly.
And even when I go out in the towns and walk around, like, I forgot where it was, we went.
And I was like, I don't see, I don't see, races.
I don't see, I don't see what it is that we're reflected on the Internet.
And I really believe that's why we don't need to be on it all the time and get out and meet real people.
Because my audiences everywhere I go, they're awesome.
And I love touring.
I love talking to people.
I love making people laugh.
Where do people get the info on the rest of the tour?
Do they go on Instagram?
On my Instagram.
And also my special that I did on Peacock is on YouTube now.
So we got all kinds of things.
And then the show is coming out on HGTV, Rosewood.
my rental. I'm so excited. I want to do an HGTV so bad. We got to work together. We have to.
Yes, I think I know what I want you from. Okay. My God, this could be interesting. I was thinking
about who could do it and now I know, and you have the perfect face for it. From this moment,
like, you have so much going on, you've accomplished so much, but like, when you're a storyteller,
when you're insatiably curious, you always want to do the next thing. What feels like your
work in progress right now. I want to, I want to do a drama. I would love to do a drama. I would love to
play a serial killer actually. You know what I'm saying? I would just love like, you know, it's really good
when a comedian plays that type of part because it's really creepy and fun. And I just, I want to do something
like that. I want to, yeah, I want to, I want to, I want to roll where I'm crying. You know,
I'm going to, you know, you know, you want your viola moment. You want your viola moment.
18 years.
The best cry I've ever seen anyone do on camera.
I think about it twice a week.
What, what, Viola Davis?
Oh my God, in fences when she's looking at Denzel.
Oh, my God, the snot coming out.
I was like, how does she do that?
It's so crazy.
And she does that beautiful, like her teeth are gritted, and she's like 18 years.
And the growl, and I'm just like, I worship at the church of Viola.
Like, that's it.
I'm done.
I'm Angela Bassett.
Oh, my God.
351 times.
When Angela Bassett has the moment where she goes,
when she takes like the breath before she starts in on you
and you're just like, I'm going to die now.
And I want to.
Like she's so, anyway, we could talk about the moment.
Yeah, we can.
Yeah, I love that.
A drama, maybe a killer.
Like you wanted to be, you wanted to be the cop in the bone collector,
but now you want to be the killer in the bone collector.
Wouldn't that be interesting as fuck?
And then I'm just psychopath like I laugh.
So let's make a drama together.
I'll arrest you.
You'll arrest me or will I arrest you?
You'll have to tune in to find out, listeners.
I'm obsessed with you.
This was the best hour ever.
I'm obsessed with you now.
Thank you for coming on the show.
Congratulations on the tour.
Obviously, everyone's going to jump and watch your special.
Tour dates are at Leslie dash Jones dash tour dash.
No, I'm saying that wrong.
I was just saying Instagram.
I'm like, that's not right.
Find tour dates on Leslie's Instagram or you can visit Leslie Jones Tour.
com.
I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
I'm tired.
Okay.
Send me a text message.
We have things to do.
Yes, ma'am.
We do.
And I will see you soon, I hope.
I hope so too.
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