Leslie Jones Made Everybody Transfer Throughout Her SNL Audition: ‘I Was Cocky’ (Unique)

Leslie Jones is sharing tales about what the Saturday Evening Stay audition course of is admittedly like.

In PEOPLE’s cowl story celebrating SNL‘s fiftieth anniversary, the previous forged member, 57, took a stroll down reminiscence lane and opened up about her audition for the long-lasting sketch present.

When requested if the rumors that folks do not snigger at auditions have been true, Jones quipped, “not throughout my s—!”

“Let me let you know one thing. It is so humorous,” she stated, recalling her first audition. “I used to be cocky as f—. I used to be like, ‘Oh, I am the funniest s— that walked on this motherfucker.’ That is how I used to be.”

It wasn’t till she sat down at her first desk learn and realized that “everyone was sensible.”

“F—ing Cecily [Strong] had seven voices inside her head that she was doing at random. This motherf—er was doing all types of accents,” she continued. “This bitch, I actually was completely intimidated once I received on the desk, however the auditions? Man, I walked in there, I used to be like, ‘Yeah, transfer to the entrance. Y’all within the again, transfer to the entrance. I do not carry out like that.'”

“I used to be a cocky ass bitch and so they moved to the f—ing entrance as a result of that is what the f— I stated. After which once I completed I used to be like, “My title is Leslie Jones. Peace,” Jones stated, placing two fingers up. “I did not get the job, but it surely’s cool. It is cool.”

The comic first joined the NBC collection in 2014 as a author and made appearances on the present. The next season she was forged as a featured participant. She went on to earn three Emmy nominations throughout her 5 seasons.

In 2019, Jones introduced she wouldn’t be returning for SNL’s forty fifth season and expressed her gratitude for the present making her a “higher performer.”

“Sure, it’s true I’m leaving Saturday Evening Stay,” she confirmed in a press release shared on Instagram. “I can not thank NBC, the producers, writers, and superb crew sufficient for making SNL my second residence these final 5 years.”

“Lorne Michaels, you’ve modified my life in so some ways!” she wrote of the present’s mastermind. “Thanks for being my mentor and confidant and for at all times having my again. You not solely have my loyalty however you have got my coronary heart!! You have got proven me abilities I by no means imagined I had. I depart a greater performer due to you.”

“To the unimaginable forged members: I’ll miss working, creating and laughing with you,” she added, shouting out her costars Sturdy, Kenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon and Colin Jost.

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