Jones says performing stand-up for the first time as a freshman in college felt like putting on a shirt that fit perfectly: 'It was just so natural.' Her memoir is Leslie F*cking Jones.
Leslie Jones says she was 19 when Jamie Foxx told her she needed to live life — get hired, get fired, fall in love — in order to be truly funny.alum Leslie Jones was a college freshman when a friend signed her up for the funniest person on campus contest. It was the first time she'd ever done stand-up, but Jones says grabbing the mic felt like putting on a shirt that fit perfectly.
Jones won the college comedy contest, but struggled for years to make it as a professional comic. When she was 19, Jones metat a comedy club, and he told her she was too young and inexperienced to be funny. Instead, he advised her to go out and live: Get hired. Get fired. Break hearts. Have her heart broken. Only, then, Foxx said, would she have something to talk about on stage.The advice resonated with Jones.
"I done fell off stages. I done fell off tables. I fell off chairs," she says."Like I always tell everybody, don't try to reinvent comedy. Comedy is all its own entity. ... Slipping on a banana will be one of the funniest physical jokes."When I first started comedy, I thought I had to be sexy. I used to wear heels on stage. ... But this is what happens: We walk on stage.
I was talking to another cast member that retired and they said"But in fairness, that's how they do all of them. Not just the Black ones." I look back and I was like,"Oh, that's right,
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