Leslie Jones is an American comedian and actress who is a current cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live. Jones has been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and the Aspen Comedy Festival. In 2010, her one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime. Jones starred in Ghostbusters (2016) as Patty Tolan. In 2017 and 2018, Jones was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live. In 2015, Jones appeared in the Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer project, Trainwreck; reportedly Apatow and Schumer wrote a part specifically for Jones after seeing her turn in Chris Rock’s Top Five. During the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Jones drew attention on social media and in the press as a Team USA “superfan”, regularly live-tweeting events and posting videos of her reactions. Enthusiasm for Jones’s commentary grew, with articles appearing like The Huffington Post’s “Watching Leslie Jones Watch The Olympics Is Better Than The Actual Olympics”. Television producer Mike Shoemaker, posted on Twitter that his friend Jim Bell, NBC’s executive producer of the network’s Olympics coverage, should add Jones to NBC’s team of commentators covering the Games; Bell responded the next day asking Jones to join NBC in Rio. She accepted and flew to Rio, covering swimming, track and field, gymnastics, and beach volleyball for NBC. Jones reprised her duties at the 2018 Winter Olympics.