Twitter was not kind Sunday night during Leslie Jones’ first gig as an awards show host — specifically, the BET Awards in Los Angeles….
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Twitter was not kind Sunday night during Leslie Jones’ first gig as an awards show host — specifically, the BET Awards in Los Angeles. But we thought she had strong moments, including this prerecorded bit where she meets her 1994 self behind a local Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles.
That’s where she used to waitress while she was trying to make it as a comedian and when she appeared on BET’s “Comic View.”
Jones says she’d sometimes have Roscoe’s customers who would recognize her from “Comic View, ” after which she’d acknowledge their praise but quickly follow up with “Breast and wing or leg and a thigh?”
“I used to give away so much chicken, ” Jones confessed to the audience. “You always got two extra wings with me, but I always expected a $5 tip.”
As 2017 Jones told 1994 Jones about the future — including the wonders of pot dispensaries and legal weed — she said, “One day you’re going to host the BET Awards.
“The what awards?” her 1994 self asked.
“That’s like the black Oscars, ” explained 2017 Jones, who went on to tell her younger self, “You’re in movies now. and you’re on ‘Saturday Night Live.'”
“Ah, ” said her 1994 self, “the white people’s ‘In Living Color.'”
Then, in a not-so-veiled reference to social media trolls, the hacking of her Twitter account and the leaking of her personal nude photos, 2017 Jones had some final advice for her 1994 self: “Don’t get on Twitter, and stop taking those naked pictures!”
