Posted on 09/23/2023 6:35:53 PM PDT by Rummyfan
In a candid new interview with NPR, former Saturday Night Live cast member Leslie Jones says the show’s limitations made her “a caricature” of herself, although she came to realize that the process was par for the course at the longrunning NBC show.
“They take that one thing [about you] and they wring it,” she says. “They wring it because that’s the machine. So whatever it is that I’m giving that they’re so happy about, they feel like it’s got to be that all the time or something like that. So it was like a caricature of myself. … Either I’m trying to love on the white boys or beat up on the white boys, or I’m doing something loud.”
“I was talking to another cast member that retired and they said ‘But in fairness, that’s how they do all of them. Not just the Black ones,'” Jones says. “I look back and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s right, Taran Killam!’ Taran wanted to do so much other stuff, but they would only have Taran in those very masculine [roles] and singing and stuff and I said, ‘Oh! This is a machine.'”
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...and in the new interview also talks about her pre-SNL years as a stand-up comic.
“When I first started comedy, I thought I had to be sexy,” she said. “I used to wear heels on stage. … But this is what happens: We walk on stage. The first thing that happens is women look at you and they go, ‘Oh, does she think she’s cute?’ And then they look at their man and they go, ‘Does my man think she cute?’
News Flash: She ain't cute.
Awwww.....poor widdle victim.
She should give back all of the money she made, and, start all ovah.
It's called working for a living.
A difficult concept, for this victim.
She looks like a tranny buckwheat
I’ve always said, Whoopi was the ugliest woman of tv. The Leslie Jones comes along. She is the winner and undisputed ugliest woman.
I never heard of this Lester Jones...
Did Leslie Jones cash all her SNL checks?
Just curious.
LOL !
She’ll make a great Feral “judge” if SNL fires her ass.
Stop it. You made me chuckle.
Leslie who? Never heard of her.
Leslie Nielsen.
Leslie is quick, clever and can be very funny, in small doses. She can crack some great jokes, but sooner or later, she tends to play the Race Card as part of her act. That makes it less funny for me, and more CRT negativity.
She was the host of a cable show called
“Supermarket Sweep” where a group of contestants have a short amount of time to fill their shopping carts. I was in the hospital for a few days, recovering from a surgery, so I had time to watch a few of those shows.
She was overbearing, She tended to give lots of attention and compliments to the black families, showing more impatience with anybody not black. She tended to crack inappropriate (sexy) jokes. They were too raunchy for that show atmosphere. She never shut up for more than a few seconds at a time. I think that show was cancelled after two or three years.
Leslie who?
She needs to identify as a white male and benefit from all that white patriarchy
No, she did that to herself just fine when she starred in that horrible woke fanfic “Ghostbusters 2016.”
“News Flash: She ain’t cute.”
And she ain’t funny either. Whoopie Goldberg, Mo’nique, and Wanda Sykes already wore out the mouthy black chick shtick.
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