Leslie Jones recalled her less than exemplary experience on the sketch show in her new memoir, Leslie F*cking Jones
to promote the book—out this week—Jones had some choice words for how her identity and the identities of her fellow cast mates were treated by the show., they take that one [trope] and they wring it. 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,” she said.
While these character beats certainly speak to the show’s questionable history with Black performers—Jones,, is one of only eight Black women featured in all 48 seasons—the comic asserts that this hemming in applied to all cast members regardless of their race. “I was talking to another cast member that retired and they said ‘But in fairness, that’s how they do all of them.
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