Kenan Thompson Reveals How He'll Know It's Time to Leave 'SNL' After More Than 20 Years
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00:00I've been doing this for so many years, for over two decades.
00:02When do you feel like you'll know that it's the right time to...
00:05Um, I think when my badge stops working, you know what I mean?
00:08I don't have access anymore, that'll tell you.
00:11That'll tell you.
00:13I couldn't really say, you know, it's like as long as it's like
00:18a mutual kind of thing, you know what I mean?
00:20It's their environment to employ me at, you know what I mean?
00:24So they keep asking, I'm more than happy to oblige.
00:28And as long as the audience continues to laugh when we do something new,
00:31you know what I mean?
00:33And it's like, all right, I've been out there like three different times now
00:35and they just won't give me any sort of thing.
00:37Then I'll, you know, but that hasn't been the case.
00:39I mean, everybody seems to enjoy a new joke.
00:42Definitely.
00:43It just keeps going.
00:43It just keeps going.
00:44When the time does come, what is the one thing you're going to take from set?
00:49Hmm.
00:50I mean, a lot of memories, but I think just like lifelong kind of,
00:55you know, friendships, because it's like that show has taught me New York,
00:59you know what I mean?
01:00Like hearing from the crew and where they're coming from,
01:02people commuting in from Long Island and Queens and like on Staten Island.
01:07You know what I mean?
01:07Like I didn't know much about Staten Island until me and Joss were roommates.
01:11You know what I mean?
01:12And we were office mates for like eight years.
01:14So like just the different walks of life that that build that show,
01:18I think is like my core memory of that place,
01:21like how many different versions of faces create the thing that you already
01:27thought you knew a lot of faces from, you know what I mean?
01:30Like there's just almost like 30 times more, you know what I mean?
01:34Just behind the scenes folks.
01:36So yeah, it's a large family.
01:38I'm sure you get it all the time, a question as well,
01:40like the one host musical guest that you would love to just work with nonstop.
01:44If you could just pick one for the rest of your life to just pick one,
01:47who would it be?
01:49Tom Hanks, I think, host wise and musical guest.
01:52It would be Outkast.
01:53Bring Outkast back.
01:54Yes, bring Outkast back.
01:55And make them perform every week.
01:58What is it about Tom Hanks that you love so much?
02:01It's just the departure from expectation and reality, you know what I mean?
02:05Like you expect him to be like a little standoffish because he's such a big star,
02:09but it couldn't be more opposite.
02:11Like he's so embracing and so nice and just giving and dedicated to the craft.
02:17He would dedicate to your sketch like it was Forrest Gump, you know what I mean?
02:22And that is just beyond flattering.
02:24It's just amazing and almost terrifying to witness at first, you know what I mean?
02:28Like when those kinds of people call you by your first name, it's just like,
02:31yo, you're Tom Hanks, you know what I'm saying?
02:34Like stop trying to act like you know Kenan, you know what I mean?
02:38But that's just who he is, he's a real one.