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Kenan Thompson Biography

Kenan Thompson (/ˈkiːnən/ born May 10, 1978) is an American actor and comedian. He has been a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live since 2003, and is the longest-tenured cast member in the show's history. In his teenage years, he was an original cast member of Nickelodeon's sketch comedy series All That. Thompson has also played Kenan Rockmore in the sitcom Kenan & Kel, Russ Tyler in The Mighty Ducks franchise, Dexter Reed in the 1997 film Good Burger, and the title character in the 2004 film Fat Albert. In his early career, he often collaborated with fellow comedian and All That cast member Kel Mitchell. He is ranked at #88 on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars.

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Singing a melody is like a lot of easier and when you sing harmony you have to really kind of know music and listen to the music and be able to hear the notes or whatever.

Easier, Harmony, Kind, Listen, Music, Singing

Kids have awkward moments.

Awkward, Kids, Moments

Never thought I'd be a bobble-head, but little did I know.

Know, Knows, Littles, Thought

You try to go with something that's familiar to people and that way they can jump on board with what you're trying to do basically. I only mimic people that really have like interesting voices because it's really hard to mimic like someone who just talks regularly like me like there's nothing fun about that.

Fun, Interesting, Jump, Mimic, People

I was always pretty funny with my friends.

Friends, Funny, My Friends, Pretty

There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.

Kids, Pressure, Successful

It's just a challenge doing live television every week, you know, it's a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean, like it's just, you know, it's a kind of a stressful environment. Like I didn't really realize that we had a show this Thursday until yesterday.

Challenges, Come, Environment, Keep, Mean, Trying

I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

Everybody, Happy, Happy Person, Nothing, Persons, Want

I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.

Reason, Typical, Voice, Voices, Want

I don't know if people really know, when you shoot a TV show like you're really family and it really works, it's because it seems real to everybody, even to us. We were all so very close.

Close, Everybody, Like, Like You, People, Real

My immediate family is real close-knit.

Family, Immediate, Immediate Family, Real

I got good at trying to throw a voice on a character from the very beginning as opposed to like reading it and sitting with it and mulling over it and stuff like that just try to read what it is and then try to put a funny voice to it like as soon as possible and stuff like that. Once you get laughs with your voice then you can start thinking about, you know the physical characteristics and how they might walk or if they stick out their buck teeth or if they wear an afro and stuff like that. I think like finding the voice of the character helps to like build the wardrobe and everything else.

Beginning, Character, Physical, Possible, Reading, Thinking About You

I was a good student in school.

Good, Good Students, School, Student, Students

I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.

Nickelodeon, Owe

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

Just Being, Movies, Seeing, Want, Writing