The show’s longest-running cast member has seen multiple departures and deaths.
“So you have to, like, deal with the parting of friendships, that kind of thing.
The mourning of the loss of certain people’s presence and all that.
Kenan Thompson joined ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2003.Rosalind OConnor/NBC via Getty
So there’s a lot of bittersweet to it.”
He explained that it wasn’t just show exits that made it hard to say goodbye.
“We’ve had crew members die.
Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, and Kenan Thompson on ‘SNL’ in 2021.NBC
All kinds of s—,” said Thompson.
And he’ll do some new s—.
I’m like, ‘How is this fool still killing it so hard?'"
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