SNL's Kenan Thompson On Comedy in the Age of Chaos
The Don Lemon Show
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Who's your favorite? Have you done Sharpton? Were you ever Sharpton? |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah, I love Sharpton. You love doing Sharpton? |
| 0:06.0 | Absolutely. How is it? How is his voice? |
| 0:08.0 | Well, it's just kind of, you know. |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah, it is. I heard it immediately, you know. It's kind of, well, thank, |
| 0:17.0 | welcome back to National Action Network. |
| 0:21.6 | Politics nation. |
| 0:23.6 | Yes, politics nation. |
| 0:25.6 | And in local black news. |
| 0:28.6 | When I left CNN, I had no idea, I thought that I would have some success somewhere. |
| 0:45.2 | I had no idea that an independent, doing an independent channel of being an independent |
| 0:49.6 | journalist could lead to where it's led to for me. |
| 0:52.9 | Are you surprised by that? Because the industry is changing so much. So it's going well. It's going well, but I mean surprised by the industry change. Yes, that's been the shit for a while. I mean, I think social media was like one of the main pushers of that where the individual could be the catalyst, you know what I mean? And also, like, you got your |
| 1:11.3 | numbers. Like, no one can hide your numbers from you anymore. Like, Kevin Hart talked about that. He was like, that's how I started getting my big deals, was like, yo, these are the amount of people that I can guarantee you probably, you know, if 10% of these people show up kind of thing. So that's, you know, where his negotiations started to get strong. |
| 1:28.4 | That was early Kevin Hart. |
| 1:30.3 | Kevin Hart's been running for 15 years now at this point, something like that, you know what I mean? So like now, yeah, there's been a lot of people that have capitalized off of YouTube that aren't journalists, you know what I mean? You know, just doing backflips or something kind of thing. |
| 2:03.6 | So I'm glad that, you know, a real one is out there, like, getting it in. So, yeah, I plan to tune in often. Yeah. What do you think happen, though, to TV? Because you guys are still going strong over at SNL. I mean, yeah. I mean, it's just, you know, it's the tech shift, honestly. but, you know, I think the way that they structure certain things that are kind of must-see TV, that'll continue to keep, you know, the older |
| 2:11.2 | institutions alive, I think, like, you know, professional sports, S&L, live events, things like that, that, you know, even if you have |
| 2:20.7 | the biggest Hulu package, you know what I mean, you still can't get that one game, that's |
| 2:26.0 | that day kind of thing. |
| 2:27.3 | And it's the most frustrating thing ever. |
| 2:28.8 | And that's where classic old school kind of, you know, cable program or whatever will |
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