{"id":758369,"date":"2026-06-24T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/758369\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:18:09","slug":"leslie-jones-says-snl-writers-typecast-her-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/758369\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Jones Says ‘SNL’ Writers Typecast Her ‘Angry’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cSaturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d alum Leslie Jones<\/a> recently told \u201cThe Sam Sanders Show<\/a>\u201d that she found it \u201cfrustrating\u201d that the writers at \u201cSNL\u201d would often typecast her as angry and aggressive.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was kind of frustrating that they would always make me the girl that was angry and beating up people or in love with a white boy,\u201d Jones said. \u201cThey just always would make me angry or I\u2019m fighting somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHost Sam Sanders then asked Jones if she was ok with that type of portrayal. Jones explained that she didn\u2019t fight back because \u201cshe wanted to be on the show,\u201d and in the moment, \u201cdidn\u2019t think that that was happening until it kept happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEvery time I would get a sketch, I was like, \u2018OK, who am I beating up this week?\u2019\u201d she added. \u201cI just started getting frustrated with [the writers]. I was like, \u2018Stop writing me like that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite her objections, Jones said the typecasting continued. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018This is successful. When you leave here, you\u2019ll be able to make [a career],\u2019\u201d Jones recalled. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be Chevy Chase. I don\u2019t want to be whoever. I want to be Leslie. I want to do everything. And I wanted to go across the board with everything, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked if she thought \u201cSNL\u201d was a \u201chealthy place to be a black comic,\u201d Jones replied, \u201cI think that it is the machine that it is. That\u2019s just all I can tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJones joined \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d during the 39th season, becoming the oldest new recruit in the show\u2019s history at age 47. She was on \u201cSNL\u201d for five seasons until 2019, and earned two Emmy nominations for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alum Leslie Jones recently told \u201cThe Sam Sanders Show\u201d that she found it \u201cfrustrating\u201d that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,183600,28371],"class_list":["post-758369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-leslie-jones","tag-saturday-night-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}