<em>Saturday Night Live </em>Loses One of Its Most Dynamic Stars
Leslie Jones’s departure comes just as the show<em> </em>enters a big election year, seemingly with few other cast shake-ups.
When Leslie Jones made her on in 2014, she was a breath of fresh air for a creatively stagnant show. Discussing magazine’s recent choice of Lupita Nyong’o as the most beautiful woman in the world, Jones dug into the beauty standards that society often applies to black women, and into her pride and insecurities about her own self-image. “I’m waiting for them to put out their Most Useful list, ’cause that’s where I’m gonna shine,” she joked tohost Colin Jost. “I’m six feet tall and I’m strong, Colin, ”
