Nine years after the Emmy-nominated NBC sitcom went off the air, Jones remembers it fondly.

“I felt like the Beatles.

It was so nuts,” Jones said.

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“People were screaming so loud.

It was so wild.”

O’Brien noted that he’d seen the cast ofSCTVhave a similar experience.

“Great things take a while to discover,” Jones said.

Jones played Ann Perkins, the adored best friend ofAmy Poehler’s Leslie Knope.

“Every single season, we were like, this is it.

They’re not gonna want us back,” Jones said.

You wouldn’t know that today, though.