Jones finally sat down with the anchor and explained what led to her obsession with the channel.

“And I was like, ‘Who is this guy?

He’s absolutely thorough and awesome.

Leslie Jones

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He looks concerned, I need him in my life.’

And that’s how it started.”

“I’m 53 years old, Joy.

I have been through a lot of presidencies.

I was around with Reagan.

I have been here a long time and I have a great sense of humor,” she said.

“And you have to have a great sense of humor in life.

Because either you are going to cry all night or you are going to laugh.

I’d rather laugh.”

“What’s at stake is our democracy,” she said.

“How can you not look at these two candidates and not want them to represent your state?

Jon Ossoff, what!

What a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man.”

And when the topic of the pandemic came up, Jones pulled no punches in calling out anti-maskers.

“How are we divided right now?”

“That makes no sense.

How we made the pandemic a political thing makes me absolutely enraged.

And it makes me go, ‘OK, is half of our country selfish?

Are you really not taking it seriously?”

Come on, you guys.

When are you going to start thinking about each other instead of our own agendas?"