Okay, now, on with your regularly scheduled disgraceful programming. My girl Leslie Jones was the latest comedian headliner for UMSL’s Mirthday festival Friday night and let me tell you it was clear that those folks who packed out the Touhill only knew her as “SNL” and “Ghostbusters” Leslie Jones. They got familiar real quick – they had no choice. She came out the gate cussing the stage all the way down. And I must admit, I was here for it. Yes, it was filthy. And yes, I got my life. At first there were gasps, but they quickly turned to giggles by all. She was paying homage to the youth with those skinny jeans and Selena shirt, but the elderly woman was also front and center with that overt knee brace in an orthopedic tan tone. Girl, if you had just worn a black one, people would have thought it was part of the outfit. I couldn’t decide if it was part of the joke, or she just didn’t give a good doggone. I’m going with the later, based on the content of her comedy. If she had followed Eddie Murphy on stage after he had done an anniversary live performance of “Raw,” he would have said, “Leslie, girl…that was pretty racy.” When she got to talking about her failed attempt at trying to have her way with Prince, it was so funny because I know it had to be true. I could just see her helicoptering that ponytail right off of her head, it flying past Prince and him looking at it and her with the shadiest shocked face of all times. Hardly any of her material is safe enough for me to repeat in Partyline, but I hollered – especially when she said she had been trying to get her nude photos out to the public for years before she became one of the mass celebrity hack victims.
