--- title: Leslie Jones: Actress Addresses Twitter Hate on Late Night description: Leslie Jones address the Twitter online harassment events on Late Night With Seth Meyers. canonical: https://time.com/4418931/leslie-jones-twitter-harassment-seth-meyers/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-22T14:49:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:40.493Z og:title: Leslie Jones Addresses Online Twitter Harassment With Comedy og:description: The comedian worked with Twitter to ban Twitter users who made hateful comments og:url: https://time.com/4418931/leslie-jones-twitter-harassment-seth-meyers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Leslie Jones Addresses Online Twitter Harassment With Comedy twitter:description: The comedian worked with Twitter to ban Twitter users who made hateful comments twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Leslie Jones Address the Online Twitter Harassment With Comedy by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 22, 2016 2:49 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 22, 2016 2:49 PM UTC Leslie Jones stopped by _Late Night_ on Thursday to address the conversation that arose from the [racially-charged harassment](http://time.com/4412232/leslie-jones-ghostbusters-tweets/) targeted at her on Twitter surrounding the release of _Ghostbusters._ The reboot infamously received a lot of “why them?” [attention](http://time.com/4390604/ghostbusters-producer-reboot-backlash-sexism-nostalgia/) for its all-female cast, but as Meyers put it, Jones had a “very traumatic week.” “The insults didn’t hurt me,” the _Saturday Night Live_ star explained. “Unfortunately, I’m used to the insults, that’s unfortunate, what scared me was a gang of people jumping against you for such a sick cause.” Jones was still able to joke about her feelings toward Twitter. “It’s like, that’s my favorite restaurant, I love the food there. Three people just got shot in front of me. Y’all need to get some security!” The comedian then explained that she met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and “got a whole bunch of accounts taken off of Twitter.” The incidents spurred questions about online harassment policies, and Jones went on to clarify her stance. “Hate speech and freedom of speech; two different things.” Best of all, Meyers showed video clips from fans and amateur ghostbusters who created touching videos to support Jones. The comedian only momentarily left Twitter due to the hostility, but the [recapper of _Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4381541/game-of-thrones-leslie-jones-seth-meyers/) and life itself is back. Thanking people for the choruses of appreciation, she said, “I’m not going nowhere.” Watch above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4418931/leslie-jones-twitter-harassment-seth-meyers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4418931/leslie-jones-twitter-harassment-seth-meyers/"},"headline":"Watch Leslie Jones Address the Online Twitter Harassment With Comedy","datePublished":"2016-07-22T14:49:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:40.493Z","description":"\"Hate speech and freedom of speech, two different things.\"","url":"https://time.com/4418931/leslie-jones-twitter-harassment-seth-meyers/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","movies","celebrities","Seth Meyers","Ghostbusters","leslie jones"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4418931/leslie-jones-twitter-harassment-seth-meyers/","name":"Watch Leslie Jones Address the Online Twitter Harassment With Comedy"}}]}] ```