The seek for the following Each day Present host has commenced. After a five-week hiatus following the departure of Trevor Noah, The Each day Present returned to Comedy Central final night time with Saturday Evening Dwell alum Leslie Jones behind the desk. A sport and cozy Jones stepped into the footwear vacated by Noah with ease, making the gig her personal—for this week, a minimum of. Jones is considered one of a handful of introduced visitor hosts, together with Wanda Sykes, DL Hughley, Chelsea Handler, and Sarah Silverman.
As for her literal footwear, Jones greeted a barely subdued Each day Present studio viewers whereas sporting a pair of Ugg slippers, a illustration of how comfy the comic felt behind the desk. As soon as the cameras have been rolling, Jones wasted no time selecting up the place Noah left off and highlighting the significance of platforming Black girls’s voices in US politics. “First, I wish to give a shout-out to Trevor Noah,” mentioned Jones on the prime of the present. “One of many issues that moved me a lot in his final present, he mentioned if you wish to really study America, speak to Black girls. Effectively, guess who’s coming to dinner?”
With Jones, The Each day Present begins the arduous journey of discovering a everlasting alternative after Noah’s seven-year stint manning the desk. Headache-y internet hosting successions just like the Jay Leno to Conan O’Brien to Jimmy Fallon drama on The Tonight Present and the temporary and complicated week that Mike Richards hosted Jeopardy! counsel that passing the baton on blue-chip reveals isn’t essentially simple. Since its debut, The Each day Present has had three official hosts: Craig Kilborn, from July 22, 1996, till December 17, 1998; Jon Stewart, from January 11, 1999, till August 6, 2015; and Noah, from September 28, 2015, till December 8, 2022. Jones is the primary of 5 comedians lined as much as visitor host The Each day Present in one-week increments, however the prospects are countless as to who will e-book the gig full-time, and when (and, it’s price saying, if) that host will likely be appointed.
Whereas Jones isn’t essentially identified for her political comedy, she bounced between the information tales along with her signature verve and dedication, tickling the viewers. She started the present by discussing the newest political scandal: President Joe Biden’s categorised paperwork being present in a storage close to his Corvette. “It is a nationwide safety emergency, okay? A person this outdated with entry to a Corvette?” she quipped, earlier than breaking right into a little bit of the track “Greased Lightnin’.” She then impersonated the girl who was in command of handing out the categorised paperwork to Biden, joking that she had simply “smoked the largest spliff I’ve ever rolled in my life” urging Biden to “be cool with paperwork.” The joke was not overly analytical, however enjoyable and sharp nonetheless.
Jones actually got here alive when she was given the house to be her irreverent self and discuss points that have been nearer to her personal expertise as a Black girl. In a section in regards to the controversial statue of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King not too long ago unveiled in Boston, Jones had the viewers in suits describing how the statue seemed rather a lot like, nicely, cunnilingus. “I received to speak to white individuals for a second,” she mentioned. “White individuals: You don’t should be saying shit about this statue, you perceive? Black palms solely. You might want to sit behind the bus for this one, okay? That is our civil rights icon…taking place on his spouse,” she mentioned with an appropriately lengthy pause earlier than the punch line. She then turned to a different digicam and addressed one other part of the viewers. “Okay, Black individuals, what the fuck are we gonna do? We gotta discuss this as a result of you understand it’s tousled when Black individuals and Proud Boys hate the identical statue,” she mentioned, incomes an enormous chortle.
