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She performed at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, but her shows there received unfavorable reviews. Comedians Mother Love and Dave Chappelle encouraged her to move to New York City to hone her craft for over two years, where she appeared on BET's ComicView before returning to Los Angeles. She performed at comedy clubs while working day jobs at Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles and UPS to make ends meet. After winning the contest, Jones left school for Los Angeles. Jones began doing stand-up comedy in college in 1987, when a friend signed her up for a 'Funniest Person on Campus' contest. Once at Colorado State, Jones contemplated pursuing a pre-law degree, but changed her major several times, including to accounting and computer science, before settling on communications. When her coach, Brian Berger, left Chapman in 1986 for the head-coaching job at Colorado State University, Jones followed.

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Initially unsure of what she wanted to study, Jones worked as a disc jockey at the student radio station, KNAB, and contemplated playing professional basketball overseas. Jones attended Chapman University on a basketball scholarship. Jones attended high school in Lynwood, California, where she also played basketball her father suggested that she play the sport because of her height. Her family moved to Los Angeles, when her father took a job at Stevie Wonder's radio station, KJLH, as an electronics engineer. Her father was in the United States Army, and her family relocated frequently. She had a younger brother, Rodney Keith Jones (1971–2009). Jones was born on September 7, 1967, in Memphis, Tennessee.

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In 20, Jones was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live. Jones starred in Ghostbusters (2016) as Patty Tolan. In 2010, her one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime. She has also been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and the Aspen Comedy Festival. She was a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2019, and is currently the host of the ABC game show Supermarket Sweep.

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The first Ghostbusters movie for more than a quarter of a century will be released in July 2016.Observational humor, blue comedy, black comedy, physical comedyĪfrican-American culture, everyday life, pop culture, current eventsįormer Saturday Night Live cast member and writer Īnnette ' Leslie' Jones (born September 7, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Feig announced over Twitter on Tuesday that Saturday Night Live players Jones and McKinnon would be joining Wiig and McCarthy – the latter pair heavily rumoured to have been cast for some time – in the as-yet-untitled new film. His passing prompted original director Ivan Reitman to abandon plans to take charge of the new movie. Harold Ramis, who played Egon Spengler in the original Ghostbusters films, died in February last year. On hearing the confirmed cast, he wrote “No comment” on Twitter.

I would watch it.” Hudson, meanwhile, has previously described the all-female concept as a “bad idea” which would not likely prove popular with fans. “And Kristen Wiig is so funny – God, she’s funny! It sounds great to me.

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“Melissa would be a spectacular Ghostbuster,” he told the Toronto Star prior to the full casting announcement. Murray, who was courted vigorously (and ultimately unsuccessfully) by Aykroyd to return in a new instalment for a number of years, also signalled recently that he loved the idea of an all-female cast. It also means the idea of an all-female team has received the backing of two out of the three living members of the original quartet. “My great grandfather, Dr Sam Aykroyd, the original Ghostbuster, was a man who empowered women in his day, and this is a beautiful development in the legacy of our family business.”Īykroyd’s statement is vital as he came up with the original idea for Ghostbusters and co-wrote the screenplay for both earlier movies.

“The Aykroyd family is delighted by this inheritance of the Ghostbusters torch by these most magnificent women in comedy,” he said in a statement.

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