Rosemary Rossi Leslie Jones will be bringing her considerable talent to Variety’s Power of Women gala, which she will host on Oct.
24. “I have to see what the crowd is. I’m thinking these are gonna be classy ladies, so I’m definitely gonna have to, you know, watch my mouth first,” laughs the Emmy-nominated actor and comedian, who is known to toss out a profane word or two during her sets.
The event, in partnership with Lifetime, will honor Amy Adams, Bela Bajaria, Carol Burnett and Zoe Saldaña, and highlights female leaders in the entertainment industry, who are profiled in the Women’s Impact Report. “It’s more about just bringing a little bit of joy, a little bit of ease to the room,” the comedian explains of her mission that night. “Everybody’s gonna be dressed up and probably kind of a little nervous.
So I like to always make people just go, ‘Hey, live in this moment. Live in this moment! It’s fun. We are all looking good.” Just try to bring that atmosphere to the whole ceremony.” Jones has been doing standup comedy since 1987, so not many gigs scare her. “You just have to be ready for everything,” she says. “You have to have clean material, you have to have dirty material.
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