‘Saturday Night Live’ #TBT: Bow Down to Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones
If there’s something strange in the neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, so they can turn strange into funny.
The two Saturday Night Live players are starring in this weekend’s Ghostbusters reboot. The movie itself has attracted a lot of (undeserved) controversy, but nobody can argue with Jones and McKinnon’s comedy chops.
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We’ve witnessed their hilarity week after week on SNL, particularly on “Weekend Update.” The women really shine with their recurring characters, like McKinnon’s Olya Povlatsky, a small-town Russian woman who comments on her country’s current affairs. On the Sochi Olympics, Olya wondered why anybody would want to go to Russia, when she’s been trying to leave all her life.
When Seth Meyers notes that Sochi is considered a resort town, Olya snorts. “The last resort.” The only time she ever went to Sochi was to throw herself into the sea.
As for Jones, she’s appeared as a relationship expert with a refreshingly candid take on modern-day romance, like the perils of texting. When a man rejected her via text, Jones noted that even her “Uber driver was like, damn, that’s cold.”
See McKinnon and Jones bust ghosts — alongside SNL alum Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy — this weekend. SNL returns for its 42nd season this fall.