--- title: Leslie Jones: SNL Comedian Birthday Party Twitter Videos description: Leslie Jones celebrated her birthday fabulously. canonical: https://time.com/4483756/leslie-jones-twitter-birthday-video/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-08T15:01:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:17.801Z og:title: Leslie Jones Celebrated Her Birthday With Berries and Bubbles og:description: So much slayage of this day og:url: https://time.com/4483756/leslie-jones-twitter-birthday-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Leslie Jones Celebrated Her Birthday With Berries and Bubbles twitter:description: So much slayage of this day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch How Leslie Jones Celebrated Her 49th Birthday Like the Queen She Is by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Sep 8, 2016 3:01 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Sep 8, 2016 3:01 PM UTC Leslie Jones celebrated her 49th birthday Wednesday, and it was one for the books. This year has been a ride for the comedian. The downs: she was harassed online after being cast in the [_Ghostbusters_](http://time.com/4412232/leslie-jones-ghostbusters-tweets/) reboot, she endured a racist and sexist [website hack](http://motto.time.com/4464720/leslie-jones-hack/). The ups: she breezed by the vitriol when she galvanized people on the Internet to support [Gabby Douglas](http://time.com/4452516/rio-2016-olympics-leslie-jones-gabby-douglas-twitter/), she joined NBC’s [Olympics coverage](http://time.com/4442303/leslie-jones-olympics-tweets/) in Rio and had a shining [red carpet movie moment](http://time.com/4386271/leslie-jones-ghostbusters-premiere-christian-siriano/). After all of that, it was time to celebrate her birthday, which was a very festive celebration indeed. It appears everything went swimmingly for this woman who can’t be bothered to care enough about the haters swarming her Twitter feed to pretend like she isn’t living her life to its fullest potential. Here’s how she partied. **The beginnings of this blessed occasion:** Just after midnight, she opened up by wishing herself a happy birthday, as one does to alert anyone not in the loop that a special occasion is about to pop off. > [](https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/773373041422241792) She breathed in her view from the terrace. > [](https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/773576679306526720) **The menu:** She drank drinks fit for a queen in fantastic company, even though Kenan Thompson seemed insufficiently excited considering how cool the affair was. > [](https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/773715380464418816) > [](https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/773718482169040897) As she thumbed through some good old Leslie Jones appreciation on Twitter, she happened upon this birthday wish with a Ghostbusters cake from someone who was not even invited to the party. > [](https://twitter.com/MichaelZorek/status/773587351968878593) Her chocolatey cake was one for the books, complete with sparklers and her Twitter handle, and she again wished herself a happy birthday. > [](https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/773736748190994432) Speaking of appropriate desserts, Jones thanked Sprinkles for her 60 free birthday cupcakes by fixing this song from the _The Sound of Music_. > [](https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/773608558088912899) **The final broadcasts:** The festivities continued at Marquee, which is still a nightclub in New York City’s meatpacking district. She made this primo facial expression in a denim getup. She reminded everyone of her age, which is never a reason for a person to sit down, shut up and wear something boring and closed by peppering in her signature catchphrase. > [](https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/773700442341670913) Happy birthday Leslie! ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4483756/leslie-jones-twitter-birthday-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4483756/leslie-jones-twitter-birthday-video/"},"headline":"Watch How Leslie Jones Celebrated Her 49th Birthday Like the Queen She Is","datePublished":"2016-09-08T15:01:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:17.801Z","description":"Slay all birthday","url":"https://time.com/4483756/leslie-jones-twitter-birthday-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Internet","celebrities","Saturday Night Live","leslie jones"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4483756/leslie-jones-twitter-birthday-video/","name":"Watch How Leslie Jones Celebrated Her 49th Birthday Like the Queen She Is"}}]}] ```