>> they're doing good. Y'all Look at this, wow, whoa, wait, that is in. I saw it. I was like,
they're leaning too much to the other side,
man that, did she break her hip to break him being that,
wow! >>
So that was Leslie Jones I think fairly obviously.
And that is also the only way that the winter olympics should be digested is with the live
commentary of Leslie jones, but there's been a few wrinkles to her ability to do that. We're
going to take you through the whole story. But first Francesca, what do you think about this?
>> I had the same reaction. I saw the Russian figure skaters that like whatever couples
skate at the same time and that performance was impeccable. They were perfect. And guess what?
They still won. They were like first or I think they got the gold for that, Americans came in.
I know, I know because it was technically, it was so much more advanced but but
literally so funny because that was my same reaction. I love Leslie Jones
as Olympics commentary. It's the best. >> It's quite exciting. I've watched a
little bit of the olympics and it's fine, but like the commentary could be more exciting.
I think she's produced that. Anyway, it looked for a bit as if it might be over,
no more Leslie Jones commentary and by the way, she's been doing this for many olympics. You
might recall her during the summer olympics not that long ago. So she had posted on social media,
Leslie Jones does doesn't stay anywhere I'm not welcomed with a comment.
I'm starting to feel like this should be my last olympics. I live tweet. I know I know another
celebrity bitching, but I'm tired of fighting the folks who don't want me to do it, they block my
videos and they get folks who think they can do it like me and I'm tired of fighting them.
I love the athletes and they love me doing it and I know y'all love it,
but now it's just gotten too hard and no one is fighting for or with me. So I guess I'll
leave it to the professionals, but thank you for all the love. So apparently some of her
videos were getting taken down and first of all, definitely some people were fighting with her.
I was gonna let Leslie Jones know in this video, that DJ lunchbox stands with you. But thankfully
they have gone back, NBC news. Well look, here's what NBC News says.
So apparently, spokesperson says that the videos were blocked because of a third party
error instead of NBC quote, we have resolved the situation.
She is free to do her social media posts, as she has done in the past. She's a super fan
of the olympics and we are super fans of her. So I don't know if you believe that it was accidentally
gotten taken down down, to be fair, not all of her videos were taken down.
So maybe it was just an automatic thing. >> You're not allowed to transmit any
portion of that, the games. So you can't even talk about what I just did on this show,
that's gonna get blocked because I was relaying what had happened. I do think it's it speaks to
something really interesting and I it's not a huge, huge problem, but it is a problem.
Which is every time someone like Leslie Jones, a comedian and actor sort of steps out of her
lane and does something like commentary on the olympics, which is like she's doing
it in a funny way. And yet the olympics are universal. A lot of people are watching it.
I think I like the winter olympics a lot. But every time someone does that on social media
especially, you kind of lose a lot of followers because it's like, well stay in your lane,
make jokes, make me laugh on about whatever, something inane or be on a sketch on SNL like,
I don't want to see you do this other thing because I'm not interested in that other thing.
And so I understand that as an artist, like she might be like, man,
people don't like this, I don't know, maybe I shouldn't do it,
jeez, I thought we were having fun here. >> Yeah, yeah. And I think, I think that people
were, I think a lot of people in their responses to her were saying like this is why I'm watching
the olympics or this got me to, my wife literally says she gets reminded to turn on the olympics
by the tweets from Leslie Jones and it's way more interesting commentary, it might not be
expert commentary, like the other figure skaters they bring on to talk about it or whatever, but
for someone like me who is not particularly into the winter olympics, that said, I did
watch some of the short form whatever yesterday and it was, it was pretty exciting, I guess.
I think that would be a great idea to bring her on and by the way to that end they could still
do that, you could have her do commentary as she alluded to. Her issue with them was not just their
videos, reading band, but that they were bringing on people to do like she was doing, which is not
those figure skaters, it might be a reference to back last year, the summer olympics in Tokyo.
NBCUniversal streaming service aired olympic highlights with Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg,
which offered a similar style of commentary. To Jones now, maybe that's totally disconnected,
maybe that was not their goal was to replace her, but like you could bring her on,
she does stuff like this for a living, you could pay her to do that and I'm sure she'd be happy to
and so I wish that they would go the next step and actually bring her on.