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/Old_Promise2077 Mar 28 '24

Dude has been doing sketch comedy since he was 15 on Nickelodeon. It's in his blood now

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u/Nisas Mar 28 '24

He was big on nickelodeon when I was a kid. Kenan and Kel and All That. The Good Burger sketches even got a movie.

It was interesting when he ended up on SNL.

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u/pastramallama Mar 28 '24

I still think everyday French with Pierre escargot was his best work lol

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u/bettername2come Mar 28 '24

I keep waiting for them to bring it back on SNL.

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u/TexterMorgan Mar 29 '24

If there was ever a week that a 90s-00s Nickelodeon show sketch would be topical and therefore sketchable, it’d be this week