In her new memoir, Leslie Jones says she and Kenan Thompson once got high and wrote an 'SNL' sketch that involved shooting the real Whoopi Goldberg on live TV that nobody would let them do.
taking part in various activities like riding a horse, playing golf, and taking a shower, with his voice-over saying, "We'll be right back, baby" in between shots of the onscreen slaughter. | Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images; Michael Loccisano/Getty Images
Jones, a cast member from October 2014 to May 2019, says she and Thompson were convinced they'd struck comedy gold, writing, "Kenan and I were weeping with laughter when we wrote this—we were actually going to shoot Whoopi Goldberg onBut those they pitched it to just didn't feel the same way. First the eager duo hit up then-head writer Bryan Tucker, who Jones says just looked at them blankly and said, "You guys are crazy.
So they moved on to pitch it to the "Weekend Update" team. "In the Update office we were acting the Whoopi sketch out and laughing the whole time. When we finished, Kenan said, 'It's so funny. Right?'" Jones describes. "'You guys are nuts,' someone said. 'You can't kill Whoopi Goldberg on live TV.
"'We're not going to kill Whoopi Goldberg on national TV for a personal joke,' he said, completely missing the point but it was hilarious when he said it. It wasn't an inside joke at all—it was just funny. But we never got to do it," the comedian writes. Jones, who scored two Best Supporting Actress Emmy nominations during her time on the sketch show, writes that she later told Goldberg, one of her longtime idols, about the sketch. "She thought it was hysterical," Jones says, "and she said for sure she would have done the sketch if we'd asked her to."
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