Kenan Thompson on future with ‘Saturday Night time Dwell’
Kenan Thompson isn’t calling it a day at Saturday Night time Dwell simply but—removed from it. In truth, the comedy veteran is considering long-term… like eternally lengthy.
“It would be cool if I never left the show. That’d be crazy,” he informed Leisure Weekly with the identical chill enthusiasm that’s stored him thriving on Studio 8H for 22 straight seasons.
Sure, you learn that proper—22 seasons.
Thompson, now 46, first joined the legendary NBC sketch sequence in 2003, and since then, he is racked up 5 Emmy nominations and even took house a win in 2018 for co-writing the now-iconic sketch Come Again, Barack.
Initially, Kenan’s objective was to hit 20 seasons.
Mission completed—after which some. “I guess the only other milestone would be just to be the forever cast member. Just never leave the show,” he mused.
“I do not actually know. Thirty [seasons] is like, okay, that is simply one other quantity form of factor. Twenty was simply such a factor that no person had ever performed.”
He added, “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. Once I started getting into 17, I was like, well, if I can, I would love to stick around till 20. And now here we are at 22, so I don’t know.”
As for who’ll stick around longer—Kenan or the show’s legendary creator, Lorne Michaels—Thompson isn’t making any bets.
“That’s a great question. I have no idea. I feel like we’ll both just ride until the wheels fall off.”
And really, can you blame him for wanting to hold on tight?
As he told PEOPLE earlier this year, working on SNL is “hands down” one of the best job in TV.
“It’s crazy because most people do eight [seasons] max, you know what I mean? Or 12. But it’s a one-of-a-kind place,” he stated.
“It’s the people in front and behind that embrace it, need it. So when they call me, what, am I not supposed to oblige the greatest job in the world? So it’s just out of love. What a blessing it is to have steady employment.”
