This Week a Star Is Born, and Her Name Is Tiffany Haddish
Entertainment
As far as talk show appearances are concerned, Tiffany Haddish’s showing on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! was nothing less than a tour de force. The actor/stand-up comic talked for almost 10 straight minutes, frequently cracking up the crowd and Kimmel himself with a hilarious account of her Groupon-purchased trip through a Louisiana swamp with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, her Girls Trip co-star (Jada shared a more subdued account the previous night during her appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon). One terrific highlight—a one-liner far more memorable than the usual nothingness stars spew when they appear on talk shows to promote their current projects—came when she described Jada’s reaction to Tiffany’s unfancy rental car. Jada, according to Tiffany’s retelling, said, “‘Oh it doesn’t have tinted windows, I don’t know if I feel safe.’ And I’m like, ‘Really, Jada? You from Baltimore, bitch.’”
During Jada’s appearance on Fallon, she said of Tiffany, “She is just amazing in this movie. Her career is just gonna take off.” Fellow Girls Trip star Queen Latifah said something similar to Fallon the night before: “Watch her, she’s gonna be massive.”