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.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.
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.
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