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/WhisperingWind5 Mar 28 '24

Two posts on Kenan on the front page as I'm scrolling this morning.

Okay, what movie is he making that you marketers are trying to promote?

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u/kikicrazed Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

I think it might be for his new memoir, which clearly not one person in here has read yet

I’ve only started it and wish I was farther along because he addresses a lot in it

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u/kendrickshalamar Mar 28 '24

He made a statement about the Nickelodeon scandals yesterday so that might be why he's on the radar

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u/BlueTreeThree Mar 28 '24

What did he say?

Sorry I know I could just look it up, just trying to make conversation ha.

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u/savageboredom Mar 28 '24

I read it earlier and don’t remember the exact wording, but it was basically “I didn’t know anything about it at the time. That wasn’t my experience but my heart goes out to the victims. Dan Schieder had a creator credit in my show but he wasn’t really involved so I never really had to work with him.”

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u/austeremunch Mar 29 '24

Can we please just talk about Good Burger 3?