Leave it to Leslie Jones and menopause to turn The View into a more entertaining program.
The “Saturday Night Live” veteran was midway through a conversation Tuesday with Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and the rest of the “View” crew when she suddenly started sweating—visibly. She managed by dabbing her face with a small dark blue towel that magically appeared from under the table.
“You… you're hot,” Behar stammered, interrupting a conversation in which she had opined that comics were people who told the truth and undermined propaganda.
“I'm always hot, baby,” Jones replied, continuing her adventure with getting wet before explaining – perhaps unnecessarily – “I'm going through menopause. This pause, this pause.”
The performer continued. “I’m part of this,” she said. “I am “pause.” The heat coming from me could light up a small town in Guadalajara.”
Forget that Guadalajara itself is a city, and not a small one. Jones's calm demeanor at the time prompted Sunny Hostin to start fanning her with a large card. Behar joined with her card.
“Let's talk about your latest comedy show, because it funny and it's called “Leslie Jones: The Life, Part 2,” Hostin said, trying to get the segment back on track.
She failed completely.
“I'm splashing!” Jones said, wiping her wet face again with the magic towel.
The show aired a clip from her special where she talked about how everyone needs to go to therapy, after which Hostin turned the “The View” conversation to dating.
Goldberg then stepped into the spotlight, leaving her seat to take over guest duties. “I can die now,” Jones said, holding out her hands, palms up, and looking up at the heavens with a peaceful smile, enjoying Whoopi’s attentive attention. “This little bit is a dream. It's a dream come true.”
At this point, Hostin appeared to stop talking to Jones about boys and began fanning her with the card again.
“Whoopi Goldberg is wiping my sweat,” Jones said, relaxing from the scene.
“Yeah, it’s a great moment,” Behar grumbled.
Oh, but wait. Hostin could not be refused. Or perhaps whatever producer screamed into her earpiece wouldn't deny it.
“You talk a lot about the men you ran into… so tell us how the pool is?” – she asked, not noticing that the audience was much more interested in Whoopi, who was now fanning Jones, waving a magic towel. Have you found men, thought Hostin, who would do this for you? Are you a fan? Wipe off the sweat?
“Unfortunately, no,” Jones replied. “Look, I’m 58 now, so I’ve already finished my undergraduate degree.”
“At 58, you are also postmenopausal,” Dr. Behar chimed in, introducing himself as an armchair expert in female endocrinology. “This should be over already.”
Jones snapped out of her daydream and looked at Behar as if he were a bag of dog poop burning on her doorstep. But she didn’t stomp on the bag to empty it. “It’s different for everyone,” Alyssa Farah Griffin chimed in cheerfully.
— Do we have beef? Jones asked Behar, looking at her with that stony look that only Leslie Jones can give.
“Not something I know of?” Behar said. “You know what, we respectfully disagree.”
It's nice to know that Behar believes Jones is incapable of experiencing menopausal symptoms, even though Jones is experiencing menopausal symptoms right in front of her.
Meanwhile, Whoopi activated the blotter, offering Jones comforting words while Behar babbled in her own defense.
“You’re coming at me,” Jones told Behar.
“Let me have your face,” Whoopi said.
“Thanks, baby,” Jones told her personal swab.
And the conversation turned to the tryst scene, which, as Jones correctly told Hostin, “isn't dark. It's devilish.” As she spoke, Whoopi folded the magic towel, placed it in the magic resting place and backed away, blowing on Jones as she slowly walked towards her abandoned chair.
“Just come down on me, baby,” Jones said, and Whoopi stepped back and complied. Behar, looking uncomfortable, asked someone to get a hand towel.
“It’s so sad,” Jones said, “that my entire video will be about me sweating.”
After the commercial break, Behar picked up a small electric fan, which she immediately aimed at Jones. “This man will solve all your problems.”
“Thanks, honey. I'm fine,” Jones said. “Now I'm freezing.”
Nope, girl. When it came to Joy Behar at that point, you were just cold.
