Live TV giveth, live TV taketh away. Leslie Jones has plenty of killer Saturday Night Live moments on her résumé, but she recently revisited one that went spectacularly sideways, a 2014 sketch with guest host Chris Rock that she now calls a full-on misfire. In a new interview, the Ghostbusters star reveals the honest 5-word response Lorne Michaels and Co had for her after the bomb.

On Vulture’s Good One podcast , host Jesse David Fox even framed the infamous sketch as “one of the biggest bombs in modern SNL history. ” The Tennessee-born funny woman didn’t argue, but instead, she unpacked the story, adding a bit of context most fans never see. Jones recounted:

That was my first sketch, major sketch, and I didn’t understand the color of the pins. So I didn’t know th

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