Leslie Jones (comedian)
Leslie Jones is an American comedian and actress, currently a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Jones has been a featured performer at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal and the Aspen Comedy Festival. In 2010, her onehour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime.
Leslie Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father was in the United States Army and her family moved frequently. Her family moved to Los Angeles, when her father took a job at Stevie Wonders radio station, KJLH, as an electronic engineer. Jones attended high school in Lynwood, California, where she also played basketball in May 2015, she stated on Late Night with Seth Meyers that her father suggested that she play the sport because she is six feet tall. She attended Chapman University on a basketball scholarship and transferred to Colorado State University when her coach left Chapman for Colorado State. She intended to become a lawyer, but changed her mind and changed her major a few times, including business accounting and computer science and eventually ended up majoring in communications. At Chapman, Jones became a radio DJ. She was unsure of what she wanted to do, and contemplated the possibility of a career playing basketball overseas.
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