Leslie Jones

Leslie Jones is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She was a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2019, and hosted the ABC game show Supermarket Sweep. She has also been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and the Aspen Comedy Festival. In 2010, her one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime. Jones starred in Ghostbusters (2016) as Patty Tolan. In 2017 and 2018, Jones was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live. In 2021, she starred opposite Eddie Murphy in Coming 2 America which she won an MTV Movie Award and was nominated for a People’s Choice Award. The week of January 17th, 2023, Jones kicked off a new era of The Daily Show as the program's first guest host. Jones will next produce an untitled Christmas comedy for Lionsgate which she is currently developing as a potential future starring role. Pllus, Jones co-hosts the podcast THE FCKRY with comedian Lenny Marcus. Each week, Jones and Marcus interview guests and answer listener questions, while exposing “the fckry” of any given topic.