Saturday Night Live

her website bio claims she was on an episode of coach AFTER college so....take heart, olds

http://web.archive.org/web/20140109052827/http://www.sandiego.com/articles/2011-11-03/leslie-jones-craft-comedy

Do you remember the first time you did stand-up?
Leslie Jones: Yes, it was in Colorado. I was playing basketball. I was on a scholarship actually. One of my friends signed me up for a contest and didn’t tell me until a couple of days before the contest. She was like, ‘I think you’re really funny and I signed you up for this contest.’ And I was like, ‘Are you crazy!?’ She’s like. ‘No, I think you can do it. I think you’re really funny, just go up there and talk like you talk to us.’ And I did, and won the contest and have been a comedian ever since.

What year was this?
LJ: 1987.

Jones started to do stand-up comedy in college in 1987, when a friend signed her up for a "Funniest Person on Campus" contest

That would put her damn near 50 years old!

Black don't crack, y'all. (I could tell she was older than the average SNL cast member, but I wasn't sure by how much.)

Definitely old enough to be fucking while watching Opera Man.

If she's somewhere in her 40s, she's surely the oldest person to be brought on as a featured player right? That's cool imo.

michael mckean was only 46 when he joined in the 90s, and i think he went straight to cast

wonder if they'll actually announce the record being broken if she's bumped up

I just now realized from those biographical details that I already knew of Leslie Jones from her WTF interview a couple of years back.

Show them a) De Niro hosting; b) 1980.

― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:06 (Yesterday) Permalink

there's that sketch in the peter sarsgaard ep taking place in a hotel room that fails from just about every angle iirc

But that episode had Peter Saarsgaard's SARS Guards so everything else was forgiven.

I'm old and have been watching since the early/mid 80s and I'm on the side of thinking the Rock episode might be one of the worst of all time.

I liked the Rockbama sketch though.

Jones turned 47 just before the season began, which does make her the oldest person ever to join the cast:
http://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Leslie-Jones
https://www.facebook.com/LeslieJonesComedy/info

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/1041961/stephen-malkmus-talks-to-squir-o.gif

haha

TS: Scott Weiland vs. that squirrel

lol what is that from

joey gladstone era snl

btw Harry Shearer says everyone on the show has been reading off cards for 30+ years

lol what is that from

The "Stereo" video.

what the fuck series of events transpired in 2006 that resulted in peter sarsgaard hosting snl

am i forgetting a period of time in which peter sarsgaard was popular enough for that

dude didn't even have a movie coming out. like edward norton last year i think sometimes they just get a new york based actor who likely attends their after parties.

He hosted in 2010, and I think he was coasting off An Education and Orphan and was ramping up for Knight and Day.

Oh wait, y'all are right. Wikipedia says 2010, but imdb says 2006. So fuck if I know.

Jarhead I guess? Came out in late 2005 and he hosted in January 2006.

am i forgetting a period of time in which peter sarsgaard was popular enough for that

I remember the sketch where he was an invited guest at a pirate convention. "saaaARRRRRsgARRRRRd"

i remember the Peter Sarsgaard SARS guard. they probably asked him to host just for that and the pirate thing.

he'd won a few awards and been in a bunch of 'big' films -- Jarhead, Kinsey, Shattered Glass etc -- plus he can also act and be funny, so yeah, why the fuck wd SNL need that in a host?

Seriously. I heard Guy Fieri's interested.

That reminds me, it's been too long since Moynihan has played Guy Fieri.

even for their "love that guy - he's got a week off, doesn't need a hotel room" slow week choices like malkovich, norton, buscemi etc saars is pretty low profile, though

prob most audience knew him (if they did) as the guy who turns around slowly while squinting at the twist of The Skeleton Key and Flightplan

srsly dude is really good at the "actually i'm the bad guy" face

he's no Josh Hutcherson-level superstar, it's true

"he's exactly a Josh Hutcherson-level superstar" seems to be the point everyone is making

minus a hunger games-level franchise

John Malkovich lives in France, I believe

let's get you back in time to '77 to produce SNL so Jan-Michael Vincent can host instead of Broderick Crawford.

sorry morbz, please ignore me

he'd won a few awards and been in a bunch of 'big' films -- Jarhead, Kinsey, Shattered Glass etc -- plus he can also act and be funny, so yeah, why the fuck wd SNL need that in a host?

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, November 10, 2014 2:40 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

had supporting roles in several movies everyone forgot existed and had two talents lorne's never cared about

hutcherson's got a billion dollar franchise behind him u nerd

I dunno Lorne musta signed off on Maureen Stapleton hosting in spring '79 (and she hadn't even won her Oscar yet)

Yeah, but she was already pretty famous from All In The Family.

Buck Henry hosted eight times in the first five seasons; I think SNL's hosting criteria were a bit looser in the 70s (unless Henry, as a performer, was box-office gold in those days and its been erased from history).

you caint reel me in that way, OL

Drat.

(Buck Henry was Oscar nominated for co-directing Heaven Can Wait in that period, but yes, that had nothing to do with anything. Also he was willing to play the "funny uncle" in the recurring pedophile sketch.)

You're never gonna see a Josh Hutcherson displaying that level of commitment to the show.

oh i dunno, i could see creepy sketches and character acting in his future

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/josh-hutcherson-human-flesh-article-1.2005416

I will now be watching the arc of his career with great interest.

Old (man for) lunch