Kenan Thompson on His First SNL Night & Lorne Michaels' Best Advice | SNL 50 - video Dailymotion

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Kenan Thompson, SNL's longest-tenured cast member, reflects on his first night on the show, his favorite advice from Lorne Michaels and the legacy of 'Saturday Night Live.' He also shares his thoughts on how SNL has evolved while continuing to shape pop culture and reveals how many more seasons he's got in him.

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00:00Well, congratulations. This is a big night, an epic night. You're the longest tenured cast member

00:05ever on SNL. What do you remember most about your very first night on the show?

00:10I remember being very nervous. I remember Jack Black was hosting, and I remember I was doing

00:17Bill Cosby that night, and yeah, that was a long time ago. 2003, I think? Yeah, yep. Well, come a

00:25long way, and what do you think about when you think about the legacy that is SNL, and how

00:29much it's kind of changed course, but also still kind of impacted pop culture in such

00:33a big way? In a huge way, man. I mean, you're talking about a 50-year show that's live every

00:39single week that is doing a show. For 90 minutes, it's beyond epic, and the writers and performers

00:47are some of the most brilliant minds on the planet that love comedy. We've been taught

00:52to love each other. It's a very supportive environment since I've been there, so it's

00:57just been amazing, and for them to have their finger on the pulse like that means that they

01:01care, in my opinion, and they want the good for the world. Yeah. Obviously, we wouldn't

01:07be here without Lorne Michaels. What was the best or biggest piece of advice that he gave

01:11to you? I mean, there's a lot of them, you know, but one of the greatest is, like, never

01:20be too big for the moment. You know what I mean? Like, you never want to, like, peak

01:24too early or, you know, just, you know, be too loud in the beginning. You know what I

01:29mean? Like, you want everything to, like, build and escalate in a beautiful kind of

01:33orchestra kind of way. You know what I mean? Yeah. And how many more seasons do you think

01:37you got in you? Orchestral a word. Orchestral? We'll figure it out. Well, we're going to

01:43make it a word. And how many more seasons you got in you? As many as they want. We out

01:48here, dog. We're not done yet. No, we out here. Amen. Love that. Congratulations. Thanks.

01:53Thanks.

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