Comic Leslie Jones to start as non permanent host of ‘The Day by day Present’

NEW YORK (AP) — Comic Leslie Jones will probably be taking a short lived whirl as host of “The Day by day Present” this week, and she or he says viewers can anticipate her trademark — some blunt, edgy humor.

“I’m not Jon Stewart. I’m not Trevor Noah, I’m Leslie Jones. So I’ll be bringing that susceptible honesty,” the “Saturday Evening Stay” alum joked in an interview on the eve of her new gig.

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Jones’ stand-in as host on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday on the Comedy Central topical present yields to 4 extra upcoming weekly gigs by comedians: Wanda Sykes, D.L. Hughley, Chelsea Handler and Sarah Silverman.

Whereas this week marks the primary time Jones has appeared on “The Day by day Present,” she’s no stranger to MC-ing, having guest-hosted “The Ellen Present” and taking cost of ABC’s recreation present revival “Grocery store Sweep.”

“No task to me is ever totally different. It’s at all times them asking for me. Just about what I come to ship is me. So it’s not likely an excessive amount of totally different than once I used to do — updates at ‘SNL’ or doing standup, you understand?” she mentioned. “It’s all speaking.”

Through the years, “The Day by day Present” — first hosted by Craig Kilborn, then Jon Stewart and extra just lately Trevor Noah — has skewered the left and proper by wanting on the day’s headlines with a jaundiced view. Noah stepped down late final yr, and no everlasting successor has but been named.

On “SNL,” three-time Emmy Award nominee Jones did impressions of Whoopi Goldberg, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, Omarosa Manigault Newman and, most memorably, Donald Trump.

Throughout her run from 2014 to 2019, she routinely hit on Colin Jost whereas showing on his “Weekend Replace” desk, calling him issues like a “little salty oyster cracker,” and displaying off her difficult and fictional relationship with fellow forged member Kyle Mooney.

Her viral tweets earned her an NBC correspondent job on the 2016 and 2018 Olympics. She hosted the BET Awards in 2017 and starred within the 2016 “Ghostbusters” remake.

Jones mentioned she has been maintaining with every day occasions and personalities to make sure “The Day by day Present” continues to be topical beneath her watch, however she’s additionally received stuff deliberate.

“We received already lots of concepts wrapped up and what we wish to do and what we wish the present to seem like,” she mentioned. “In fact that modifications with every day occasions. If one thing large occurred, after all, we must change it for that. However, yeah, we received lots of stuff that we already wish to do.”

Requested if she’d be inquisitive about inheriting the host’s chair on a everlasting foundation, Jones was non-committal. “I don’t actually wish to reply that,” she mentioned.