Leslie Jones is considered a pop-culture staple for her summer and winter Olympics commentary. During the international sporting events, Jones takes to her social media to live tweet her humorous observations of various categories while hyping American athletes, Yahoo Entertainment reports.

However, the usually jovial comedian took issue with the criticism of Olympic champion Simone Biles when she pulled out of the team competition at the July 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, citing her mental health.

“This is what people need to understand: It’s not enough just to be physically fit for these Games. You have to be mentally fit for these Games. One doesn’t work without the other. And the pressure that is put on these athletes has to be enormous,” Jones said in an interview with The New York Times.

“The way that they attacked Simone Biles, I was ashamed of our country because, first of all, most of the people that complained were sitting on their fat asses on the couch. You’ll never do a cartwheel and you have the nerve to talk about someone and tell them that they let the country down? We have to start taking accountability that they are not actually superheroes. They do make it look like they’re superheroes, but they are humans,” the  actor said.

Jones said she’s always held a special love for the Olympics, saying, “The Olympics were a very important thing [when I was growing up].”

“I remember us getting school time off. I remember people taking days off of work to support the Games and the athletes. I always loved it, especially the gymnastics and the figure skating. What it’s come to now is great and how beautiful it is. I’ve always thought that this is the one time that all countries put down whatever it is that they have against each other and just compete in the Games,” she said.

“It’s almost a moment of world peace to me. Of course, it’s not now, with the timing and everything. But I always loved it because you had a team to cheer for. It was like, ‘Yeah, our country! Yeah, U.S.A.'” she added.

Jones said she initially started live-tweeting when she watched the crime drama Breaking Bad.

“[Live tweeting is] a blessing and a curse at the same time, because I’m going be honest with you — I didn’t actually think people were going to catch on to it. The first time I live-tweeted might have been Breaking Bad. It had already been off the air for about five years, but it was so good that I was like, ‘I’ve got to tell people about this,'” she said. “So it really did start off as fun. Now it is a job. The politics [commentary] started during COVID and sitting on the couch watching TV, and I don’t think people were paying attention to their backgrounds. I was like, ‘Does she know she’s in front of — what the [expletive] is that?’ I’m always trying to find a way to make people laugh when things are bad. It’s relief.”

“That is what a comic’s job is. We’re jesters,” she added.

As Blavity previously reported, earlier this year, Jones communicated her disappointment online when social media blocked her video commentary of the Winter Olympics in Beijing.

However, NBC cleared up the misunderstanding and gave her the clear to continue her coverage.