Leslie Jones Reflects on 'SNL' Role, Says Show Made Her a 'Caricature' of Herself

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Leslie Jones is speaking out about her time on Saturday Night Live. The 56-year-old actress and comedian served as a writer and cast member on SNL from 2014 to 2019.

Her performances earned two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. During a recent appearance on NPR to promote her new memoir Leslie F*cking Jones, Leslie opened up about how being a Black woman impacted her experience on SNL. Keep reading to find out more… Leslie commented on how the show limited the range of her performances and described how she believed her race played a role in that. “They take that one thing [about you] and they wring it,” she said. “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.” Leslie also remarked on how other SNL cast members were also treated with limitations as a way to serve a larger “machine.” “I was talking to another cast member that retired and they said ‘But in fairness, that’s how they do all of them.