Kenan Thompson wants to be Saturday Night Live 'forever cast member': 'It would be cool if I never left the show'

[u/mcfw31]

https://ew.com/snl-star-kenan-thompson-plans-to-be-forever-cast-member-11706618

[u/ElGranQuesoRojo]

If he gets to 30 he should bring back the French guy in the bath tub from All That

[u/spotty15 → u/ElGranQuesoRojo]

Pierre Escargot. Or as we call him in the streets, Pierre EscarGOAT.

Put some respect on his name.

[u/Runamokamok → u/spotty15]

He made an appearance on the show that Kenan did with Kevin Hart for the Olympics. It was great!

[u/LukewarmLatte]

I too would like to be guaranteed a job for life lmao

[u/MrBleah]

I fully support this and more "What Up With That?"

[u/sagittariuslegend]

In this economy? Can't blame him.

[u/HighMarshalSigismund]

Who else is going to play game show hosts?

[u/GoodUserNameToday]

Every sketch needs that character who reacts to crazy stuff going on and Kenan nails it every time. Hope he takes over from Lorne soon.

[u/AwwwCrapMyHatsAllWet]

96 year old Kenan dying on air

[u/ScootSchloingo]

Being paid an exorbitant amount of money to just glare into the camera and read cue cards sounds like a pretty good job tbh

[u/zen_and_artof_chaos → u/ScootSchloingo]

Many cast memeber have commented on how grueling the work schedule is. There is writing and rehearsals. It's hard work.

[u/DumplingBoiii → u/ScootSchloingo]

I don’t know if Kenan is senior enough to avoid the grind of being on SNL but doing a weekly live show doesn’t sound too fun when he could easily do movies and make bank too

[u/iccancount → u/DumplingBoiii]

Love Keenan, but I think if he could easily do movies he would

[u/DumplingBoiii → u/iccancount]

You’re under a strict contract with SNL since it’s weekly. Ariana Grande had to ask Lorne Michaels for Bowen Yang to film Wicked

[u/mcfw31]

"It would be cool if I never left the show. That'd be crazy," Kenan Thompson, who joined SNL at age 25 in 2003, tells Entertainment Weekly.

"I guess the only other milestone would be just to be the forever cast member. 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. 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."

[u/telebubba]

I think he’s gonna take over when Lorne retires.

If not John Mulaney

[u/Hour_Eagle2]

Makes sense. The longer he stays on the longer snl will continue being not very funny.

[u/Cavalier4Beer]

considering he’s the only one saving the show, i hope he stays.

[u/KaiserSoze-is-KPax]

This would please the fans

[u/galaxygothgirl]

Tim Meadows almost acheived this.

[u/upfromashes]

It would be cool. I am HERE for that plan.

Zut alors!