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Leslie Jones Has Been So Good At Live-Tweeting The Olympics That NBC Is Sending Her to Rio

"Don't play, cos y'all need me!"

by Sinead Stubbins  8 August 2016

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Aside from being a very funny comedian and a buster of ghosts, Leslie Jones is also very good at live-tweeting things. If you didn’t follow her commentary during the last season of Game of Thrones, then you did not watch it properly.

You know that else Leslie Jones likes? The Olympics. She is able to articulate what we all really want to know, like ‘what is this sport’ and ‘what are the rules’. Frankly, it’s the only coverage of the event that you need.

She loves it! Such is Jones’ patriotism and avid interest in the games that an executive producer over at NBC officially invited to cover the events in Rio over Twitter, and then advised her fans to “stay tuned”. I am so grateful that she came back to Twitter.