Leslie Jordan's star perhaps never shone as brightly as it did at the height of the pandemic. In those dark, unnerving moments, as many of us sat at home for weeks or months on end, Jordan's silly, unvarnished and downright uproarious viral videos were a shimmering beacon of humor, light and positivity.
An unlikely "influencer," Jordan's posts garnered more interactions, likes and traction than nearly anything else in those trying times (aside from maybe that "poor taste" cover of "Imagine"?), and he rapidly became an immediately recognizable face and voice. However, as the New York Times reported back in 2020, Jordan had already "accumulated more than 130 television and film credits, so he hadn't been exactly undiscovered, but the Instagram stardom at age 65 was an unexpected treat."
