You always hear about the youngest new talent coming to Saturday Night Live and then eventually moving on to bigger and better things, and that was probably always the always sexy Leslie Jones’ plan all along, but she came the show much later in life than most people do. She’s one of the oldest people on the show but she is also one of the funniest, and that’s no coincidences—she got to that point, slowly and steadily, over the course of many years of work as an actress and performer. She started out in projecst like Wrongfully Accused (1998), National Security (2003), Something Like a Business (2010), House Arrest (2012), and The League, before eventually landing SNL. One recent sketch featured her and Peter Dinklage on a version of Naked and Afraid, and although all the good parts are, of course, blurred out, we see get a good sense of the great body Leslie is working with based on all the parts that aren’t blurred.
