-Welcome back to "Late Night," everybody.
We are here with Leslie Jones. -Yes!
-This is very exciting.
You are -- starting tomorrow... -Yes.
-...you are hosting "The Daily Show" for 3 nights.
Are you excited to take on this challenge?
-Yeah, I'm excited that they don't know
what they're getting into.
-I'm thrilled. I'm looking forward to seeing it.
-I'm just -- I just want to see what I'm-a do.
-Yeah. -Well, I mean --
-I mean, you've been behind a desk before.
Obviously, you did a lot of stuff at "Weekend Update."
You've hosted before. You've filled in for Ellen.
-Mm-hmm. -So I think it ticks
a lot of boxes.
And obviously, that staff is still there in place.
They're talented people. -They're great, too.
They're actually awesome. They've been very helpful.
They've, you know, given us great options and ideas
and being very supportive.
-Was there anything you brought in where you said,
"Hey, I want to address stories like this?"
-Yes. Yes. There's a line of things
I'm going to -- I can't tell you,
but, you know, it's going to be good.
It's going to be good.
We're going to be touching some subjects.
[ Laughter ]
-I'm very much looking forward to the next 3 nights.
It's also Oscars season, and I do enjoy talking to you
about the media you've consumed over the course of the year.
-Yes. -Are there any movies
you're rooting for, any movies you loved this year?
-You know what's so crazy?
Like, they were asking me that, and I was like,
"Oh, my God, what movies?"
It's weird. This is so random.
"The Menu." -"The Menu?"
[ Cheering ]
We have "Menu" fans here. -Yo, yo, have y'all seen that?
[ Audience shouts "Yes" ]
-Look at this. -Okay.
First of all, the title is very misleading.
So I thought it was going to be about a chef that they was
trying to bring back, and, like, he was old.
He went and lived on an island and started cooking.
And the girl, they was going to go over
there and get him and bring him back.
-I mean I do -- that movie sounds awesome, too.
-Yeah, but that's not what happened on "The Menu."
It was like, oh, hell no!
And there was no Black people in that movie.
-And there were no Black people in that movie.
-Because don't no Black people go to no island
and eat like that.
It was like, "So it's just exclusive? Oh, no.
So I can't use my phone? Oh, no, no."
-So if I told you there was a great restaurant
I wanted to take you to, but we had to take a ferry
to get there, you would be -- that would be a hard no for you?
-Do you actually think I'm-a to believe
another White person and get on a boat?
[ Audience laughs ]
Fool me once, my fault. Fool me twice...
[ Audience laughs ]
-I should note that one of our writers, Seth Reese,
co-wrote that movie. -Really?
-Yeah, "The Menu." A "Late Night" writer.
-It was really -- I hope he gets some -- some love for it,
some recognition for it. -I think he's already
gotten more than enough personally but --
-You know, you've always been kind of a super hater.
-I mean -- I -- Thanks. It's very nice of you to say.
[ Laughter ]
I think the last time you were here,
I had not watched "Euphoria." You had.
You love "Euphoria." I've watched it now.
I'm totally on board. So I get it.
-Do you get it now? -I get it now.
-But, like, how much of a nerd are you now?
Because, like, I was a complete nerd after I watched that.
I was like, "Oh, I was a goody two shoes in high school."
-Oh, yeah.
-They are doing stuff I didn't do until I was, like, 37.
-Yeah. -[ Chuckles ]
-I took -- I hope I'm not overreacting.
I took my three kids after I saw it, and I put them in a cabin
in the woods. They're still there.
-Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
-I'm like, you're not allowed to be around other kids.
-No, not them kids. Not them kids.
-Those kids, they're -- -Man. Ah, man.
Ah, man. Ah, man.
That one scene where Rue tore the door down --
-Yeah. -I was like, "Oh, my dad --
my dad would have been, like, calling the funeral homes
like, "So how long can you get a coffin
because I'm about to kill this girl.
She just -- she just broke a door in my house."
Yeah, yeah.
-I like that of all the terrible things
they do on that show, the line that would cross
for your dad is a door was broken.
-Yes. Thank you!
Because first of all, these kids, they just -- you know,
kids is just -- they just water it down from the generations.
So it's like, you think I don't want --
my mom would be like, "Drugs?!
You think I don't want to be high, Leslie?!
You think I don't want to be high?!
Get yo ass in the kitchen!"
[ Audience laughs ]
-That's a good way of looking at it.
-And I would be clean as hell.
-Yeah. That is a good way of looking at it.
Think about it. You think the parents are upset
because they're worried about their kids' safety,
but they're just jealous.
-They're just basically like, "You spent too much time."
Like, it was just, like, no cleaning of the house.
She wasn't responsible for nothing.
-No. -You need to give that girl
some chores. -Yeah.
Rue needs a chore board!
-She -- Rue -- No.
Rue need to be strangled one good time.
She need -- her mom need to grab her and go --
[ Laughter ]
[ Gasps ]
[ Laughter ]
-I will say that show is "Game of Thrones" for parents.
-Oh, my God. -Like that show is way --
-If I was a parent and I saw that, I would do like --
I would just like --the conversation I would have
with my child would be like, "Who are you dating?
What are y'all doing?" -Yeah.
-"What are you drinking?"
I would literally drug test my kid every day.
I'd be like, "No, come in here and piss in this cup.
You was out with that girl, that girl with the nails?
No, bring your ass in here.
No. No. The blonde chick?
No. Come here. Come here. Let me smell you."
[ Laughter ]
-This is also very exciting --
no surprise to anybody, you're getting out on the road.
You're doing some stand-up dates.
-Yes. -Where are you going to be?
Is there anywhere we can see you?
-Damn, I have to remember that?
Okay. Uh...
Atlantic City. I know I'm going to be in Atlantic City.
-You know what? We're going to throw it up on the screen.
-Please do. I wish you would have said that
before I tried to guess my schedule.
-No, it's great. You obviously are really excited.
-You love to see me.
-Before you -- before you go onstage, double check
so you don't walk out and be like, "It's great to be
in Atlantic City when you're in, like, Tallahassee."
-I've done that so many times.
-Have you done it before? -Yes. Oh, my God.
I was on the Kat tour, and I walked out -- [ Laughs ]
I walked out, and I was like, "What's up, Columbus?"
They was like, "Boo, bitch."
[ Laughter ]
-That is the thing about you, and knowing the enthusiasm
you said it, none of them thought
it was an honest mistake. -It was like it was --
What's up?
What's up? What's up?
What's up? What's up, Columbus?
"Boo!"
[ Laughter ]
-Leslie, I am so excited for this week.
"Daily Show" doesn't know how lucky they are.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Tomorrow night, she'll be on through Thursday, 11:00 P.M.
on Comedy Central.
Check out "The [bleep] with Leslie and Lenny"
wherever you get your podcasts.
We'll be right back with Rosie Perez, everybody.