Even after spending twenty-two seasons on Saturday Night LiveKenan Thompson nonetheless will get nervous when performing.
The actor and comic was a visitor on the Wednesday (October 29) episode of Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson’s IMO Podcast and defined why he is usually anxious when onstage. Thompson spent many years in leisure, first beginning as a baby actor on former Nickelodeon exhibits All That! and Kenan & Kel.
Around the 25-minute mark of the interview beneath, Thompson recalled the “confidence” he exhibited whereas auditioning for All That! “It helped because I do get very nervous. I still get nervous for every show,” he instructed Obama and Robinson.
“Especially for stand up. That’s why I don’t do stand-up, because it stresses me out,” he continued. “Like, if I have a gig, that’s all I’m thinking of the whole day for days out. I can’t not focus on that.”
Thompson added that when he visits a unique metropolis, he passes time in a lodge by watching TV or writing as a substitute of going out, acknowledging that it feels “wasteful.”
When Mrs. Obama mentioned that being on SNL appears “terrifying” and that she might by no means visitor star on the present, Thompson had a unique opinion. “Yeah, my heart goes out to that because I know that feeling, but I just don’t have it there,” Thompson mentioned. “[I’m] very comfortable there. We did a lot of sketches growing up and then the live factor doesn’t bother me much, because it’s a large group of people doing it together.”
“And there’s a lot of people like getting you to where you need to be. And, like, all I gotta do is read the words. I can do that,” he added.
Thompson was chosen to affix the solid in 2003 after auditioning concurrently his longtime collaborator Kel Mitchell. The entertainers nonetheless work collectively often and are planning a 3rd installment of their Good Burger franchise.