Kenan Thompson

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Kenan Thompson is the longest-running cast member on Saturday Night Live, playing an endless range of characters and performing a record number of celebrity impressions throughout his 18 seasons on the show. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the actor and comedian to talk about pulling double duty with SNL and his new sitcom, Kenan, which films in Los Angeles.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.3	My big thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:10.4	I got a good one for you this week.
0:12.1	Somebody I think you all know and I assume if you're a right thinking person, you all love.
0:16.8	The great Keenan Thompson.
0:18.5	He's been a cast member on SNL for 18 years.
0:21.7	The longest running cast member in the history of the show.
0:25.4	He is the tent pole.
0:26.8	He is the anchor.
0:28.3	He is the glue of that iconic show.
0:31.2	18 years he's been there.
0:32.8	If you didn't know, he started out a Nickelodeon on a kids comedy show.
0:37.7	They did sketch comedy.
0:38.7	It was called All That.
0:40.3	Child Star.
0:41.3	Bonafide Child Star spun off into a series called Keenan and Kelle, which was huge as most
0:45.8	of you know, also on Nickelodeon.
0:48.2	And then, wait till you hear about him getting into SNL.
0:51.0	No improv experience, no stand-up experience.
0:54.3	He showed up for an audition, he said it went terribly with Lauren Michaels in the room,
0:59.0	but luckily he got a second crack at it.
1:01.0	He wasn't sure it went much better, but he did get the job and the rest is history playing
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