{"id":109572,"date":"2025-10-30T22:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109572\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:17:07","slug":"leslie-jones-didnt-want-to-host-the-daily-show-im-a-solo-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109572\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Jones didn’t want to host The Daily Show: “I’m a solo act”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine, if you can, a world in which Jon Stewart decides against returning to The Daily Show. Horrifying, we know. Namely, because it looks mostly like the world we live in now. While Comedy Central and The Daily Show probably wouldn\u2019t have received the ratings bounce it got from Stewart\u2019s return, upon Trevor Noah\u2019s departure, producers were thinking of outside-the-box ideas to keep the show running. One of them was pairing guest host Leslie Jones<\/a> with regular co-host Jordan Klepper. However, despite admitting on the Good One podcast that The Daily Show has writers \u201cfrom God\u201d and that she would \u201cdo The Daily Show forever,\u201d she\u2019s not sharing the desk with anybody.<\/p>\n

Jones had some success on The Daily Show after Noah\u2019s exit, receiving praise for her brief stints and enlivening the late-night series at a particularly fallow period. She hosted the show in January 2023 and again in November, during which she shared her spot with Klepper. She and Klepper, as Good One host Jesse David Fox admits, worked really well together, and it probably would\u2019ve secured Jones the job had Stewart not returned. The only problem: \u201cI\u2019m a solo act.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, we were really good together, and they were talking about putting us together,\u201d Jones says. \u201cI was like, \u2018Nah, I\u2019m a solo act.’\u201d I thought he was really great, though. Jordan\u2019s really funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oddly, earlier in the interview, Jones recalls a time when she was considered for a solo spot on a talk show, taking over for Ellen. After auditioning for the job, she had a five-word response: \u201cNo, no, no, no, no.\u201d The Ellen gig was a little \u201ctoo much like SNL\u201d and \u201cwasn\u2019t fun to do.\u201d The job felt like \u201cpressure, and I felt like I\u2019m never going to do a job like that again, which makes me feel pressure.\u201d Who could blame her?<\/p>\n

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