Leslie Jones to Host BET Awards Show
by EG
Leslie Jones is going back to where it all started.
The Saturday Night Live star will host the 2017 BET Awards, PEOPLE can reveal exclusively.
“BET was the first place I ever did comedy on TV, so it’s a full-circle moment of coming home where I started,” Jones, 49, tells PEOPLE. “I went out in the world and did what I needed to do and now I can come home to my people and say, ‘Yo! Look what I did!'”
Jones has experience mixing politics with comedy thanks to her three seasons on SNL, but don’t look for her to get too serious during the show.
“I am tired of everybody being sad and angry. I want people to just downright laugh. You can’t do the event without touching on certain things, but I’m trying to make it all funny. It’s really just about pulling the elephants out of the room and, actually, I’ll make the elephant in the room laugh about it,” says Jones. “So my goal for this show is to have a big ‘ol nice barbecue, family reunion feel. I just want everyone cracking up. I want everyone leaving that event going, ‘Wait, did they even give awards out? I was too busy laughing.'”
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Leslie Jones also starred in last summer's remake of Ghostbusters.