-I've got to say congratulations on your second Emmy nomination.
Yes! -You got nominated.
[ Cheers and applause ]
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Well-deserved, well-deserved.
-Yes, but I want to win. -Yeah, I --
-I love Kate, but, bitch, I want this one.
[ Laughter ] -No, no, no, look.
So you're up. It's you, 'cause you --
It's a great category. -Yes.
-But for "Saturday Night Live," it's you and Kate McKinnon.
-And Aidy. -And Aidy Bryant, too.
-Yes. -I'm so psyched that you guys...
-It's insane. -How fun is that?
-It's gonna be so fun. -You crushed it this season.
You were so funny. -Man, I had too much fun.
-You crushed it this season.
-Yeah, they let me have a little bit more fun this season.
I might have a little bit more fun next season.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
You really are.
And you're also doing stand-up, I do want to say...
-Yes. Lots of stand-up.
-I love that you're doing lots of stand-up.
-I love -- 'Cause that's what I started.
You know, that's my core is stand-up.
-Yeah, of course.
Stress Factory, New Brunswick, New Jersey,
August 2nd to the 4th. -Yes.
-Funny Bone, in Hartford, Connecticut,
August 10th through the 12th.
Tampa Improv in Tampa, Florida. I used to play there.
-Yes. And Kenan lives in Tampa,
so he's gonna come and see me. -Is he really?
-Oh, my God. I can't wait.
-How great is that? -That's gonna be so fun.
-Kenan, he got nominated.
-Yes, for two! -That's right.
-For two! [ Cheers and applause ]
Yes! -Kenan.
-I think I cried more harder when they told me
Kenan got nominated than me.
I was like, "Oh, God, he's just so funny!"
-Isn't that great? I love that guy so much.
-Yes. -But I will say the --
-And Carolines.
-September 5th through the 8th, Carolines.
-That's my birthday! -Caroline -- oh.
-That's my birthday weekend.
So that show is gonna be crazy.
[ Laughter ] -All right, good.
That's September 5th through the 8th
at Carolines here in New York City.
It's a great club, by the way. I know everyone over there, too.
When you do these, when you do stand-up,
you have to start out, you get a headshot
just so you can send it out to people
and hope -- I'm sorry, Leslie,
but we got a couple of your headshots
from when you first -- from when you first started.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-No,they're all -- but they're great.
-They're so hilarious. -I just --
I just want to show a couple of your headshots here.
-Oh, that's -- I want that after you finish.
That's pretty.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Okay.
So, first of all, I look older than I do now.
[ Laughter ]
Second, I literally was like --
I think I was, I want to say, 32, something like that.
I'm not sure.
But I had just got my hair braided by this girl
that lived in my building.
And when I went to go take the headshot,
'cause it was, like, special. It was at this photo place,
and I think he was charging me $90 for like a hundred shots,
And I was like, "Yes!" [ Laughter ]
So when I was choosing my outfit I was like,
"What would Whoopi wear?" [ Laughter ]
Because I want to be what Whoopi is.
-Yeah, Whoopi Goldberg's unbelievable.
-And so I chose the schoolteacher jacket.
[ Laughter ]
-The blazer. That's -- yeah.
-I look like I sell insurance and cosmetics.
[ Laughter ]
Like I got a Mary Kay line. You know?
[ Laughter ]
-And then -- -Okay.
-Oh, this one's good. -Let me tell you this one.
This one, my hair -- [ Cheers and applause ]
Yo, yo, I look so damn corny, that cah-cah!
First of all, my thumb is about 5 inches long.
[ Laughter ]
So many gay men approach me about my thumb.
[ Laughter and applause ]
I have lived, baby! I have lived!
Listen. [ Laughter ]
And, look -- this was taken by my hairdresser at the time,
Donna Dyson, in the middle of Wilshire Boulevard.
If you look... -Oh, yeah.
-...you'll see that's Wilshire Boulevard.
I took it right out in front of her shop.
-And that was a professional headshot.
-And that was my headshot for 15 years, at least.
[ Laughter ]
-Then this headshot -- -Okay, so let me explain.
[ Laughter ]
Okay. I was doing new headshots.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, my God.
-I was doing some new headshots, and I ain't know the dude --
I ain't know the dude who was taking the shots.
He was testing the camera, and I was like, "Eh, eh."
And he was taking all those shots.
And when I saw this, I was like, "This bitch is crazy."
[ Laughter ]
It's my favorite headshot of all time.
-It's a good commercial for you. 'Cause, yeah...
Everyone's a little bit crazy. -Oh, my gosh.
Please, please show them. -This is the last one.
-I think it's the one that you -- Oh, yes.
-I mean, how -- -Let me explain to you.
-What were you even thinking?
-Let me explain something to you.
When I took this picture, I swear to God...
[ Laughter and applause ]
-I don't even know what -- -When I took this picture,
I swear to God, you would -- I would've put money on it
that I was about to blow up. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ] I was like -- I was like,
"How do you not look at this headshot
and tell that this girl is creative?"
[ Laughter ]
I had just came back from Tokyo and had bought
one of them little swap-meet... -Kimonos?
-Kimonos and in my hair, I got chopsticks in my hair.
'Cause I was like -- [ Laughter ]
And then I was like, "Oh, my God.
If I do my hairs, they're gonna be like,
'She's an action star!'" [ Laughter ]
-So you were gonna be in movies and everything.
-Look at this!
Why would you not put this in a movie?
-So, with these headshots, "I'm gonna blow up from this."
-Yo, I sent this to Lorne Michaels,
and I was like, "I had some good headshots."
He was like, "This one not so much."
[ Laughter ]
-Well, pal, look at where you ended up, man.
-Man, crazy, right? -Congratulations.
Second Emmy nomination. -Yes!
I love you, baby. -I love you.
-You're the best. Leslie Jones, everybody!