It's been quite the year for SNL writer/player Leslie Jones. After being hired during the shitstorm blizzard that was SNL scrambling for diversity and her controversial Weekend Update segment about slavery, Jones was hired as a "featured player." And Tuesday afternoon, she sat down for a Reddit AMA, so you know she's…
Last night Jim Carrey hosted SNL with Iggy Azalea as a musical guest, and things probably went as expected. Jim Carrey made some funny faces and did some funny voices, Jeff Daniels showed up because they're promoting the sequel of that movie they made 20 years ago, and the digital short was probably the best part of…
Comedian Leslie Jones has earned a spot as a season regular on Saturday Night Live (or what they call a featured player). Jones was one of the black writers that SNL hired following heavy criticism over their lack of diversity. The gig started off rocky for her, though, after controversy over her Weekend Update bit…
Saturday Night Live writer and stand up comedian Leslie Jones made her Weekend Update debut this week, and she did not waste time getting straight to the jokes about slave sex. Unsurprisingly, this was met with a mixed (but mostly negative) reception.
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Well, this is just plain cool. Following the recent controversy over the extreme lack of a black women at Saturday Night Live, the show has not only added comedic actress Sasheer Zamata as a featured player — they've also hired comedians LaKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones as staff writers.
