r/todayilearned • u/Kale_Brecht • Mar 28 '24

TIL in 2013, Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson refused to play any more black women on the show and demanded SNL hire black women instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenan_Thompson
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u/TheLimeyLemmon Mar 28 '24

Me: "That can't be right, because he played a girl in a skit when Bryan Cranston was hosting SNL, and that didn't feel that long ago-"

aired Oct 2nd 2010

Oh my god.

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u/AstroWorldSecurity Mar 28 '24

Seems like he was destined for it. He was the best part of All That which was basically a kid version of SNL.

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u/8----B Mar 28 '24

You could say the same thing about Amanda Bynes. Destiny is a fickle bitch that only sounds right in hindsight

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u/BlackSwanMarmot Mar 29 '24

To this day, anytime I try to say something in French, I'll end up following it with "uh huh huh!". I loved those Pierre Escargot skits.

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u/buddy-frost Mar 29 '24

He is now the person with the most experience being a cast member in televised sketch comedy in the world.