I wouldn’t call Leslie Jones one of the best and freshest comics today.
A lot of people disagree with you.
This is the first I’m hearing of them.
If your perception was correct she wouldn’t be working in show business.
Leslie Jones is not funny and she’s barely in “show business.” The only acclaim to fame she has is that she’s a cast member on SNL. Their casting has been terrible the last few years. I challenge anyone to find an SNL bit of hers that is commonly hailed as hilarious. The only reason she landed Ghostbusters is that Feig needed a woman of color and so grabbed the only one he knows of being familiar with SNL.
If they wanted to get someone with some actual talent they would have gone after the likes of Yvette Nicole Brown, Donna Meagle, Aisha Tyler or Rosario Dawson.
That all said, I do feel bad criticizing Leslie in light of the recent racist harassment she’s received at the hands of trolls on twitter. No one deserves that.