{"id":11016,"date":"2016-04-26T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=11016"},"modified":"2016-05-18T01:03:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T01:03:41","slug":"i-speak-for-the-lonely-bitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/i-speak-for-the-lonely-bitches\/","title":{"rendered":"i speak for the lonely bitches"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"leslie

Photograph by Jonno Rattman for The New Yorker<\/p><\/div>\n

LESLIE JONES! inspiration, from the new yorker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

She was forty-six, and had been a standup comedian for more than a quarter century; her peers respected her, but that respect rarely translated into high-paying gigs. \u201cI remember some nights where I was, like, \u2018All right, this comedy shit just ain\u2019t working out,\u2019\u00a0\u201d she told me recently. \u201cAnd not just when I was twenty-five. Like, when I was forty<\/em>-five.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

keep the faith mates. also:<\/p>\n

One bullet that this opening takes away is speculation about Jones\u2019s sexuality. She has never been married and has no children; much of her act these days is about trying to find a man. \u201cI speak for the lonely bitches,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and\u00a0 i just love this style:<\/p>\n

we took a cab to the Comedy Cellar, in Greenwich Village. The booker, Estee Adoram, greeted Jones with a hug and implored her to perform, but she preferred to socialize. She walked past the comedian Judah Friedlander\u2014he grabbed her arm and said, \u201cKeep kicking ass\u201d\u2014and took a seat next to Larry Wilmore. At one point, the reactionary pundit Ann Coulter stopped by their table. Wilmore was courteous, but Jones leaned across the table and stage-whispered, \u201cWhat the fuck is this frightening bitch doing here?\u201d Coulter\u2019s face froze in a rictus, and she soon backed away from the table.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LESLIE JONES! inspiration, from the new yorker: She was forty-six, and had been a standup comedian for more than a quarter century; her peers respected her, but that respect rarely translated into high-paying gigs. \u201cI remember some nights where I was, like, \u2018All right, this comedy shit just ain\u2019t working out,\u2019\u00a0\u201d she told me recently. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11337,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions\/11337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}