Leslie Jones 2026: Tour, Net Worth, Height & Personal Life

Leslie Jones is a force of nature in the world of comedy. From her humble beginnings in Memphis to becoming a household name on Saturday Night Live, she has broken barriers, shattered stereotypes, and made millions laugh with her bold, unapologetic style. Standing tall both literally and figuratively, Jones has carved out a unique space in entertainment that few can match. This comprehensive profile covers everything you need to know about her current tour, personal life, career achievements, and more.

Leslie Jones Tour 2026: The I’m Hot Tour

Leslie Jones is currently on the road with her high-energy stand-up comedy tour titled the I’m Hot Tour, which showcases her signature personal storytelling style and larger-than-life personality on stage. The tour has been expanding its schedule with dates added across the United States, drawing audiences who come to experience her bold, unfiltered humor live.

Upcoming 2026 Tour Dates Include:

• July 31, 2026 – Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada.

• September 11, 2026 – Lexington Opera House, Lexington, Kentucky

• October 3, 2026 – Paramount Theatre, Denver, Colorado.

• October 8, 2026 – Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, New York

• October 23, 2026 – Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, Charles Town, West Virginia.

• November 6, 2026 – State Theatre, Portland, Maine.

• November 7, 2026 – TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts (Comics Come Home event)

• November 14, 2026 – The Big Room, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

• November 21, 2026 – Wells Hall at The Parker, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

The tour builds on her previous successful performances and has been praised for its high-energy delivery and Jones’s ability to connect with audiences through personal storytelling. Her stand-up shows are known for their physical comedy, crowd work, and spontaneous interactions that make each performance unique. Jones has described the tour as a celebration of who she is, saying, This is who I am, let me work with who I am.

Leslie Jones Partner and Husband: Is She Married?

Leslie Jones is not married and has never been married. She has been open about being single and looking for the right partner, describing her ideal man as someone funny who can make her laugh. Despite her success in her professional life, Jones has candidly admitted that she has not had as much luck in her love life.

The Kyle Mooney Rumors:

Many fans have speculated about a relationship between Jones and her former SNL castmate Kyle Mooney, largely due to their popular Kyle and Leslie sketches where they played a married couple. The documentary-style sketch first aired in 2017 and followed a fictional relationship between the two co-stars, including their marriage and subsequent children.

However, Jones has confirmed that they are not dating and were never in a relationship. The two comedic actors are only professional colleagues who shared great on-screen chemistry during their time on SNL. Despite fans’ hopes that the sketch reflected real life, Jones has maintained that their connection was purely professional.

The Colin Jost Connection:

Jones has publicly admitted that during her early years on SNL, she was genuinely in love with her co-host Colin Jost. She frequently flirted with him during their Weekend Update segments, and later revealed there was truth behind the jokes. However, Jost began dating Scarlett Johansson in 2017, and they are now married, ending any speculation about their relationship.

What About Kate McKinnon?

Jones’s close friendship with SNL castmate Kate McKinnon led some fans to wonder whether they were in a relationship. However, McKinnon has publicly confirmed her relationship with actress and photographer Jackie Abbott, dispelling any rumors about a romantic connection between her and Jones. Jones has publicly identified as straight and has spoken about wanting to date men.

Leslie Jones Partner Status Summary:

• Marital Status: Single, never married

• Current Relationship: Not publicly dating anyone

• Children: None, and she has stated she does not plan on having children due to fear of childbirth

• Sexual Orientation: Publicly identified as straight.

Leslie Jones Height

Leslie Jones stands at an impressive 6 feet (183 cm) tall. She has often referenced her height in interviews and stand-up routines, once stating, I’m six feet tall and I’m strong. In 2019, she mentioned her weight as 233 lbs (105 kg).

Her statuesque presence has been a notable part of her comedic persona, and she embraces it fully. In a recent interview, she said, I’m 6ft tall, I can’t cut my feet off. I can’t stop being a scary motherfucker. This is who I am, let me work with who I am. Her height was also the reason her father suggested she play basketball, which led to her college scholarship.

Leslie Jones Net Worth

Leslie Jones has an estimated net worth between $7 million and $8 million as of 2025-2026. Some estimates place her net worth lower at around $5 million, while others confirm the $7-8 million range. She is ranked among the wealthiest female stand-up comedians in the entertainment industry.

Sources of Income:

• Saturday Night Live: Cast member and writer from 2014 to 2019, earning a substantial salary during her tenure

• Stand-Up Comedy: Ongoing touring revenue from shows across the country, including the current I’m Hot Tour

• Film Roles: Including Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016), Coming 2 America (2021), and Good Burger 2 (2023)

• Television Hosting: Host of the Supermarket Sweep revival (2020-2022) and Roast My Rental

• Books: Author of a New York Times bestselling memoir, Leslie Fcking Jones: A Memoir published in 2023

• Stand-Up Specials: Time Machine on Netflix (2020) and Leslie Jones: Life Part 2 on Peacock (October 2025)

• Olympics Coverage: NBC commentator for the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2018 Winter Olympics, and 2024 Summer Olympics

• Voice Work: Animated films including Sing (2016) and The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)

Jones’s income primarily comes from her five seasons as a cast member and writer on SNL, starring roles in films, hosting duties, stand-up comedy tours and specials, residuals from streaming platforms, and voice work in animated films.

Leslie Jones Wife

Leslie Jones does not have a wife. Despite occasional online speculation, she has never been married to a woman and is publicly identified as straight. Rumors about a relationship with SNL castmate Kate McKinnon were unfounded; McKinnon is in a relationship with actress Jackie Abbott. Jones has been clear about her desire to find the right guy and has described the qualities she looks for in a male partner.

Early Life and Education

Leslie Jones was born on September 7, 1967, in Memphis, Tennessee. She was born Annette Leslie Jones, and her parents are Sundra Diane Jones, who worked for a cable company, and Willie Jones Jr., an electrical engineer in the U.S. Army. Her father’s job relocated the family frequently, and in 1979, they moved to Lynwood, California, after Willie Jones was hired as a technician at KJLH, a Los Angeles area radio station owned by Stevie Wonder.

Jones began playing basketball in high school and won a scholarship to Chapman University in Orange County, California. She transferred to Colorado State University after one year at Chapman, following her coach, Brian Berger. Initially unsure of what she wanted to study, Jones worked as a disc jockey at the student radio station and contemplated playing professional basketball overseas.

During her first year at Colorado State, Jones discovered her natural affinity for comedy when a friend signed her up for a campus-wide comedy contest. She won the title of Funniest Person on Campus, and described that first performance as feeling natural, like a path she was meant to take. After winning the contest, she left school and returned to Los Angeles to pursue a career in comedy.

Career Beginnings

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Jones honed her skills as a stand-up comedian in clubs usually aimed at Black audiences, while working a series of day jobs, including as a justice of the peace, a telemarketer, a waitress at Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles, and at UPS. Comedians Mother Love and Dave Chappelle encouraged her to move to New York City to hone her craft, and she lived there for over two years, appearing on BET’s ComicView before returning to Los Angeles.

She performed at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, but her shows there received unfavorable reviews. She then went on tour, opening for Jamie Foxx, where she was booed by his audience. Foxx advised her to live life for a little while to gain experiences for her comedy, and Jones stopped performing for three years. She later performed in smaller clubs until 2010 when she began asking for spots at The Comedy Store and secured prime-time slots for her act.

In 2008, Jones was part of Katt Williams’s It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin tour. In 2010, she had her first comedy special, Problem Child, on Showtime, after which she began performing in high-profile comedy clubs, including the Comedy Store in Los Angeles.

In 2012, Chris Rock saw Jones’s set at the Comedy Store and was so impressed that he recommended her for a job at Saturday Night Live, purportedly telling producer Lorne Michaels that Jones was the funniest woman I know. Rock also gave her name to several of the biggest managers in comedy, though initially, all of them didn’t get it.

Saturday Night Live

In December 2013, Saturday Night Live held a casting call to add at least one African American woman to the show, and Jones auditioned. Sasheer Zamata was added as a featured player, while Jones and LaKendra Tookes were hired as writers. Jones joined the writing team in 2014, even though she had little background in sketch comedy.

She quickly gained attention and accolades for her appearances on the program’s “Weekend Update” segments, on which she often joked about sensitive and hot-button issues such as racism and colorism. Jones was promoted to cast member on October 20, 2014, and made her official debut on the October 25, 2014 episode hosted by Jim Carrey. At age 47, Jones became the oldest person to join the show as a cast member, surpassing Michael McKean and George Coe, who were 46 when they joined the show.

Jones’s addition marked the first time in SNL history that the show’s cast included more than one African American woman. Moreover, the 40th season was the first to have five concurrent African American cast members, beating the previous record of three.

During her tenure on SNL, Jones was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She returned for Seasons 41, 42 (where she was promoted to Repertory Status), 43, and 44. After five seasons, Leslie Jones left Saturday Night Live in 2019, citing the series’s exhausting workload. She told The New York Times, It’s an institution. I get bored. And I want to do different things.

Film Career

While performing on Saturday Night Live, Jones had her first starring role in a movie, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016), the reboot of the classic 1984 film, alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon. The casting of four women in the title roles sparked outrage online by a particularly vocal segment of the original film’s fan base. Some singled out Jones as a target for a barrage of racist and misogynistic comments, as well as a coordinated effort to steal her personal information and documents and distribute them online. Jones was troubled by the backlash, but she turned the situation into material for routines on Saturday Night Live and in a bit at the 2016 broadcast of the Emmy Awards.

In 2014, Jones appeared in Chris Rock’s directorial film, Top Five. Rock has said a follow-up is in the works, telling Complex Magazine, Some people really shine in Top Five. You might want to see a little more Leslie Jones. In 2015, Jones appeared in the Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer project, Trainwreck, with the part reportedly written specifically for her after seeing her turn in Top Five.

Jones has also appeared in Coming 2 America (2021) alongside Eddie Murphy, Tracy Morgan, Rick Ross, and KiKi Layne. She was also in Good Burger 2 (2023) and Masterminds (2016). She has done voice work for animated films including Sing (2016) and The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019). She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Actors Branch since 2017.

Olympics Coverage

During the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jones regularly live-tweeted events and posted videos of her reactions. Enthusiasm for Jones’s commentary grew, with articles appearing like The Huffington Post’s “Watching Leslie Jones Watch The Olympics Is Better Than the Actual Olympics.” Television producer Mike Shoemaker posted on Twitter that his friend Jim Bell, NBC’s executive producer of the network’s Olympics coverage, should add Jones to NBC’s team of commentators. Bell responded the next day asking Jones to join NBC in Rio de Janeiro, and she accepted, covering swimming, track and field, gymnastics, and beach volleyball.

Jones reprised her duties at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea and live-tweeted again for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She live-tweeted for the final time for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, releasing a message stating that this would be the last Olympics she would live-tweet, claiming broadcaster NBC was pressuring her to stop. In 2024, NBC announced that Jones would join its coverage as chief super fan commentator at that year’s Summer Olympics in Paris.

Other Work

Jones has been involved in a variety of other high-profile projects since leaving SNL. She released her second comedy special, Time Machine, on Netflix in 2020. She served as host of a revival of the 1960s-era game show Supermarket Sweep (2020-2022). She also hosted the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards.

Jones has appeared as a guest host of The Daily Show after Trevor Noah’s departure from the program in 2022. She hosted the BET Awards on June 25, 2017, marking her hosting debut. Her first book, Leslie Fcking Jones: A Memoir (2023), made The New York Times bestseller list, and Jones’s narration for the audiobook won a 2024 Audie Award for Humor. She also released a Peacock stand-up special, Leslie Jones: Life Part 2, in October 2025.

Jones currently hosts Roast My Rental, a show built around the quirks and oddities found in rental homes. She has also appeared in the HBO Max series Our Flag Means Death.

Online Harassment

After the release of Ghostbusters in July 2016, Jones became the subject of racist and misogynistic attacks over Twitter. The social media platform responded by taking action against several users, resulting in the permanent banning of user and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who had described Jones as “barely literate.” After continuing to receive racist comments, Jones temporarily left Twitter on July 18, 2016. She appeared later in the week on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where she discussed the ordeal and her meeting with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

A month later, Jones was again subjected to online harassment. Her personal website was hacked, with its contents being replaced with photos of her passport and driver’s license. The site was also changed to display alleged nude pictures of her, as well as a video tribute to Harambe, the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla killed in May 2016 (a reference to the racially charged gorilla remarks hurled at Jones in the earlier attack). Her team took the website down soon after it was hacked.

Both incidents resulted in outpourings of support for Jones from fans and celebrities alike, via the hashtag #LoveForLeslieJ which trended on both Twitter and Instagram. Those who voiced support include Paul Feig, Gabourey Sidibe, Ellen DeGeneres, Sara Benincasa, Ava DuVernay, Hillary Clinton, Katy Perry, Octavia Spencer, Anna Kendrick, Lena Dunham, and Loni Love. Jones responded to the hacks on the October 22, 2016 episode of Saturday Night Live.