“It would be cool if I never left the show.
That’d be crazy,“Kenan Thompson, who joinedSNLat age 25 in 2003, tellsEntertainment Weekly.
He spent yearsdetermined to reach 20, which hehit back in 2022.
Kenan Thompson on ‘SNL’ in 2004 and 2024.Credit:Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty; Rosalind O’Connor/NBC via Getty
What target does the “What Up With That?”
star have his sights on next?
“I guess the only other milestone would be just to be the forever cast member.
Lorne Michaels and Kenan Thompson at the Emmy Awards on Sept. 22, 2019.FOX Image Collection via Getty
Just never leave the show,” he says.
“I don’t really know.
Thirty [seasons] is like, okay, that’s just another number kind of thing.
Twenty was just such a thing that nobody had ever done.
People had gotten into their teens before, but nobody had gotten all the way up to 20.
And then I was close to doing it.
And now here we are at 22, so I don’t know.”
“That’s a great question,” the cast member replies.
“I have no idea.
Kenan Thompson and Fred Armisen during a ‘What Up With That?’ sketch on ‘Saturday Night Live’.Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
I feel like we’ll both just ride until the wheels fall off.”
I’m not necessarily prone to depression, but I can see how those things can be triggers.
“All of a sudden I was hoarse or I was raspy.
“It’s just one less thing to stress about.
You feel a more settled kind of energy because there’s just more pros in the building.
There’s more people to turn to in case something goes left.
“Thompson couldn’t contain his laughterat being called his real name by his old friend.
“I have a habit of enjoying things in the moment.
Because it is a live show.
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