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More than just a person,Leslie Jonesis apresence.
This one showed that her crackling, ferocious, and sometimes dangerous energy was there from the outset.
Then she found fellow writer-performer Kyle Mooney.
As anyone who has ever watched a romantic comedy will tell you, thats comedy.
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Maybe its genesis was thanks to someone rewatchingNinja Scroll.Maybe it was a joke between writers.
This sketch the title says it all toys with Joness weakness and her own self-consciousness about it.
The play on Joness presumed insecurity feels quietly vulnerable, and helps turn her shortcoming into a strength.
Meanwhile, Jones gets the opportunity to really revel in her code-switching abilities.
Diehard Weezer fan Matt Damon goes toe-to-toe with Jones, who believes they havent had a good album sincePinkerton.
From there, glasses of wine are shattered and new friendships are destroyed.
She and her partner, played byhost Liev Schreiber, evaluate options for their new home.
Etiquette Lesson
With her outsize presence and full-throttle delivery, rarely did Jones play the straight person.
While the sketch treads a little water, its fun to see Jones play the baffled naif.
- This rap is something of a hello and (as it turned out) a goodbye all at once.
bakeries with superior strudel, subway stations that dont smell like pee, and actual black people.
(Think there aint no black folks?
Son, youre mistaken / Theres nannies and nurses and a doorman whos Jamaican.)
As Jones notes, she is moving on up like the Jefferson show.
