Leslie Jones has fans wanting more, 'killing it' as she guest-hosts 'The Daily Show'

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Leslie Jones has fans wanting more, 'killing it' as she guest-hosts 'The Daily Show'
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Leslie Jones made her 'Daily Show' debut a month after Trevor Noah left the late-night show's desk. Here are some highlights from her first night.

The ex-'Saturday Night Live’ star has a new stand-up special on Netflix, ‘Time Machine.’ It’s directed by the ‘Game of Thrones’ creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.Jones kept taking dig after dig at the Boston statue, then invited “The Daily Show” correspondent Dulcé Sloan to speak her mind.Jones brought her humor to Times Square, where she interviewed white pedestrians about their MLK holiday celebrations.

After comedian Leslie Jones said she was ‘tired of fighting the folks who don’t want’ her to tweet about the Olympics, NBC tries to clear up the confusion. “Comedians — you guys are so perceptive. And you guys see everything and you hear everything, so I will not talk smack to you,” Chestnut told Jones.Inside Trevor Noah’s tearful goodbye to ‘The Daily Show’

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