{"id":1015580,"date":"2022-03-09T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/09\/watch-leslie-jones-on-getting-into-comedy-it-felt-like-home\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:59:41","slug":"watch-leslie-jones-on-getting-into-comedy-it-felt-like-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/09\/watch-leslie-jones-on-getting-into-comedy-it-felt-like-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Leslie Jones on getting into comedy: &#039;It felt like home&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Leslie-Jones-on-getting-into-comedy-It-felt-like-home.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 9 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Leslie Jones discussed getting into comedy while appearing on <i>Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, on Tuesday, described how she used to play basketball, but didn&#8217;t love the sport. The 54-year-old then discovered comedy.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as I touched the mic, it felt like home. I felt like I had been doing it for years,&#8221; Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I was like, &#8216;Oh! I&#8217;m doing this for the rest of my life. Oh, this is so easy,'&#8221; she continued.\n<\/p>\n<p>Jones currently stars in HBO Max comedy series <i>Our Flag Means Death<\/i>. The series follows Rhys Darby as an 18th-century aristocrat who gives up his luxurious life to become a pirate.<\/p>\n<p>Jones portrays pirate Spanish Jackie on the show. Meyers asked the comedian if she was enjoying playing a pirate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes! Are you kidding me? That&#8217;s like giving candy to a baby. Are you serious? First of all, they had me at pirate and wooden hand and then they added on I have 19 husbands. What? That is like my dream,&#8221; Jones said.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-block embed-object\">[embedded content]<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9 (UPI) &#8212; Leslie Jones discussed getting into comedy while appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Jones, on Tuesday, described how she used to play basketball, but didn&#8217;t love the sport. The 54-year-old then discovered comedy. Advertisement &#8220;As soon as I touched the mic, it felt like home. I felt like I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1015581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}