<sod>In December 2013, ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' held a casting call to add at least one African-American female to the show, and Jones auditioned. [[Sasheer Zamata]] was added as a featured player, while Jones and LaKendra Tookes were hired as writers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/08/snl-lakendra-tookes-leslie-jones-writing-team_n_4563358.html |title='SNL' Adds Two Black Writers, LaKendra Tookes And Leslie Jones, After Hiring Black Cast Member (VIDEO) |publisher=''The Huffington Post'' |date=January 8, 2014 |accessdate=October 21, 2014 }}</ref> Jones appeared during the Weekend Update segment of the May 3, 2014 ''Saturday Night Live'', where her jokes about her current dating problems and her potential effectiveness as a [[Slave breeding in the United States|breeding slave]] were met with controversy.<ref name=Marantz2016/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/05/leslie-jones-slave-sketch_n_5269479.html |title='SNL' Writer Leslie Jones Defends Controversial Slave Sketch (VIDEO) |publisher=''The Huffington Post'' |date=May 5, 2014 |accessdate=October 21, 2014 }}</ref><eod>
<sod>In December 2013, ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' held a casting call to add at least one African-American female to the show, and Jones auditioned. [[Sasheer Zamata]] was added as a featured player, while Jones and LaKendra Tookes were hired as writers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/08/snl-lakendra-tookes-leslie-jones-writing-team_n_4563358.html |title='SNL' Adds Two Black Writers, [[LaKendra Tookes]] And Leslie Jones, After Hiring Black Cast Member (VIDEO) |publisher=''The Huffington Post'' |date=January 8, 2014 |accessdate=October 21, 2014 }}</ref> Jones appeared during the Weekend Update segment of the May 3, 2014 ''Saturday Night Live'', where her jokes about her current dating problems and her potential effectiveness as a [[Slave breeding in the United States|breeding slave]] were met with controversy.<ref name=Marantz2016/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/05/leslie-jones-slave-sketch_n_5269479.html |title='SNL' Writer Leslie Jones Defends Controversial Slave Sketch (VIDEO) |publisher=''The Huffington Post'' |date=May 5, 2014 |accessdate=October 21, 2014 }}</ref><eod>