Kenan Thompson
Kenan Thompson Trivia
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Trivia
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Kenan was on a weight-loss program before being cast in the title role of the 2004 movie Fat Albert.
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Kenan stands at 5'8" or 173 cm.
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Kenan was present at the 2006 Comic-Con in San Diego along with Samuel L. Jackson to promote his film Snakes on a Plane.
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Kenan's debut into acting came in 1983 as the lead role in his school's play "The Gingerbread Man".
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Kenan won a Kids' Choice Award for "Favorite Television Actor" in 2000 for his role on the show All That. Also, he was nominated for one in 1998 for Kenan and Kel.
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Kenan's big screen movie debut was in D2: The Mighty Ducks as Russ Tyler, the goalie on the team.
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Kenan appeared a total of 16 times on the show Figure It Out.
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Kenan, along with Kel, make a cameo in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, playing college students.
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Kenan makes a cameo in Big Fat Liar, which starred Kenan's All That castmate Amanda Bynes.
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Kenan's most memorable impressions on SNL are: Bill Cosby, Sammy Sosa, Star Jones, and Al Sharpton.
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Kenan remains good friends with former All That castmate Josh Server and they have done many collaborations together.
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Besides Pierre Escargot, Kenan's other famous roles on All That are Lester Oaks: Construction Worker and Principal Pimpel, a prinicpal with a throbbing pimple on his forehead.
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Kenan's favorite character on All That is Pierre Escargot, a Frenchman in a bathtub who said nonsensical things.
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Kenan wrote a story for the book Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul called "The Little Notice."
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Kenan was present at the All That 10th Anniversary Reunion Special.
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Kenan starred alongside his friend, Kel Mitchell, in Good Burger, a spinoff of a sketch of the same name from All That.
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He had to wear a fat suit for the character of Fat Albert in which he played the title character.
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All That was his first major television gig, and that aired 20 years after Saturday Night Live first aired. Yet he's appeared on both of those variety shows.
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Kenan has remained good friends with Kel Mitchell.
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Kenan is in Wieners (2007).
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Kenan was #88 on Vh1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars.
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In 2002, Kenan released a comedy album, The Good Times.
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Kenan Thompson is a fan of the Atlanta Falcons.
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He is the first cast member of SNL to be born after it premiered.
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Kenan guest starred on many shows alongside Kel Mitchell in the late 1990s.
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Kenan: I've been really fortunate to have gotten so many great roles. I've been doing sketch comedy since I was a kid, and it still blows me away. I don't even have any talent!
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Kenan: There's no bigger feeling that you're on the top of the world than when you're on movie production and it's your movie.
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Kenan: Certain things are always funny, like fart jokes and people falling down in front of you.
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Kenan: (Talking about Kevin Sullivan) He was just really supportive of me for some reason. When I auditioned, he let me do it a couple more times. He was giving me notes and that's rare.
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Kenan: (Talking about Ice Cube) He's cool and he likes comedy, but he doesn't like to be made fun of at all. He takes that kind of serious, I think.
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Kenan: I have such respect for writers because I know they stay up til whatever time, smoking cigarettes.
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Kenan: (on how Nickelodeon affected him) I wouldn't have had that training, I wouldn't have been as good without Nickelodeon.
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Kenan: (when asked about All That ) It was really like my groundbreaking, my introduction into television.
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