Kenan Thompson is already the longest-serving forged member in Saturday Evening Reside‘s fifty-year historical past, and he would not plan on leaving any time quickly. Thompson absolutely intends to be the present’s first “without end forged member.” The comic mentioned his future plans this week with Leisure Weekly.
Thompson is now in his twenty second season as an SNL forged member; the earlier record-holder was Darrell Hammond, who left the present after fourteen seasons (though he is now again because the present’s announcer, changing the late Don Pardo). Thompson, who not too long ago appeared on the present’s fiftieth anniversary particular, acknowledged his intention by no means to depart the venerable NBC sketch present: “I suppose the one different milestone could be simply to be the without end forged member. Simply by no means depart the present. I do not actually know.” He mentioned the potential of hitting his thirtieth season on the present, and likewise of probably outlasting showrunner Lorne Michaels, who has been with the present for its complete tenure, minus a five-year absence within the Nineteen Eighties: “I really feel like we’ll each simply trip till the wheels fall off.”
Who Does Kenan Thompson Play on ‘Saturday Evening Reside’?
Over his lengthy tenure on the sequence, Thompson has been a part of over 1500 sketches. Considered one of his longest-running recurring sketches is the BET discuss present What Up With That?, on which he performs the host, Diondre Cole. The sketch’s premise is that the present’s prolonged theme track is repeated a number of instances, that means that Cole invariably runs out of time earlier than he can discuss to any of his friends, together with the ever-present Fleetwood Mac veteran Lindsey Buckingham (Invoice Hader). Different notable characters and sketches embrace Darnell Hayes, the host of Black Jeopardy!; Reese De’What, host of Cinema Classics; and Willie, Michael Che‘s neighbor on Weekend Replace. His movie star impressions embrace Steve Harvey, Charles Barkley, David Ortiz, and Al Sharpton. Thompson is so integral to the sequence at this level that “Kenan reacts” is ceaselessly written into the present’s scripts.
Thompson started his profession as a toddler actor, and has stayed busy exterior SNL. In 2023, he returned to his Nickelodeon roots in Good Burger 2, and he lent his voice to the Freeform animated sequence Reward Petey. He additionally had his personal sitcom, Kenan, which ran for 2 seasons on NBC from 2021-2022.
New episodes of Saturday Evening Reside air weekly on NBC: this week’s host is Jack Black, with musical friends Elton John and Brandi Carlile. Keep tuned to Collider for future updates.
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October 11, 1975
- Community
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NBC
- Showrunner
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Lorne Michaels
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Dave Wilson, Don Roy King, Liz Patrick, Andy Warhol, Linda Lee Cadwell, Matthew Meshekoff, Paul Miller, Robert Altman, Robert Smigel
- Writers
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Will Forte, Invoice Hader, Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig, Chris Parnell, Asa Taccone, John Lutz, Tom Schiller, Simon Wealthy, Michael Patrick O’Brien, Nicki Minaj, Herbert Sargent, Matt Piedmont, John Solomon, Chris Kelly, Alan Zweibel, Kent Sublette, Ari Katcher, Marika Sawyer, Sarah Schnedier, Scott Jung, Justin Franks, Jerrod Bettis, Rhiannon Bryan
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Adam McKay
Self / Varied
Supply: Leisure Weekly
