Leslie Jones has told the story before about how Chris Rock got her her audition at SNL, where she was a regular from 2014 to last year.
It was @chrisrock who got @Lesdoggg an audition at @nbcsnl, but she told @HowardStern she almost turned the job down.
pic.twitter.com/5fnGcKxp3s — Stern Show (@sternshow) January 29, 2020As the story goes, Rock caught Jones doing her act one night, which led to them becoming friends.
During a dinner with SNL honcho Lorne Michaels, he recommended that he audition Jones, but not as a performer but as a writer.
When Rock told Jones, she actually wasn’t happy.
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