Leslie Jones told Prince, “I Wanna Be Your Lover,” but her hair said, “Let’s Go Crazy!”
It’s a simple fact of the comedy business that every artist whose career coincided with the legendary life of Prince has an outrageous, hilarious and borderline unbelievable story about meeting the music superstar. Most famously, Charlie Murphy’s basketball-and-pancakes hang with Prince became the premise for one of the best-ever Chappelle’s Show sketches, but the Murphy brothers getting their asses kicked in a pre-breakfast basketball game was not nearly the most embarrassing L that a comic ever suffered in Prince’s presence.
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That dubious distinction may very well belong to Saturday Night Live veteran Jones, who, during a recent appearance on the Syd & Olivia Talk Sh*t podcast, told the story of the time she shot her shot with The Purple One, only to end up red in the face.
“I embarrassed the fuck out of myself,” Jones said when her hosts asked her about her seduction attempt with a certain multi-instrumentalist icon. “So, I was young, and a whore,” Jones explained of her first run-in with Prince. “I used my body for everything! So, at the time, the thing that was in was the Sade ponytail. … So I wore it, and we went to some after party that was supposed to be after something, because Prince was there.”
As Jones remembered, “Nobody thought that Prince was actually going to show. … I’m like, ‘Prince is not going to show up,’ but he fucking came in, so I was like, ‘Oh, I’m fucking Prince!’”
While Prince’s famously diminutive stature may have scared off other six-feet-tall women, Jones wasn’t deterred by the height difference. “I don’t care what nobody say, he’s gonna see me, he’s gonna be (like), ‘You big tall bitch, I wanna climb your fuckin’ ass, I’m gonna write a song about you!’”
“So I wore my ponytail, and I was fine as fuck! So I just made sure that he can see me,” Jones said of her approach. “But there were so many girls, so I was like, ‘I’mma out-hoe these hoes!’”
Making use of her height advantage, Jones pushed her way to the front of the gaggle to get into Prince’s eyeline. Jones then demonstrated how she tried to attract Prince’s attention, whipping her head back and forth while explaining, “I just did my hair, like, you know when the ponytail can swing around,” but, tragically, Jones’ ponytail wasn’t made for such a high-pressure moment. “I swung that motherfucker, and that ponytail said, swoop!” Jones said while pantomiming the ponytail flying off her head and falling to the floor.
“It hit the fucking ground,” Jones said. “I looked at Prince, and he was like, (holds hand over her mouth).”
And, in case that first humiliation wasn’t enough, Jones still had some unfinished business past the velvet rope. “The ponytail was expensive, so I told the security guard, I was like, ‘Can you… can you… just kick it, just kick it over?’”
Thankfully for Jones, that wasn’t her last chance to make an impression on Prince, though the next one wouldn’t fare much better. “Fast forward to SNL, Chris Rock is the guest and he has Prince as the musical guest, so I was like, ‘I wonder if this guy remembers me?’”
As such, Jones snuck into Prince’s rehearsal to hide in the dark until she could get another shot at love. “When he finished, he starts heading towards me, and I’m about to shit,” Jones said of her rehearsal run-in with Prince. “So he walks over, but you could tell halfway that his face changed, because it was like — you could tell it was like, ‘Oh this is not who I thought it was.’”
“So he came up to me anyway and he shook my hand, and he was just laughing,” Jones said of that deflating moment. “And I was like, ‘You thought I was Chris Rock, huh?’”
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