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Kenan Thompson

Thompson at the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con
BornMay 10 1978 (1978--) (age 29)
Atlanta, Georgia
Kenan Thompson (born May 10, 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia), is an American actor and comedian.

Career

His first appearance was in the movie . He also appeared in Heavyweights. Thompson got his first big break when he was 16. He started on Nickelodeon's All That from 1994 to 1999. He and co-star Kel Mitchell had their own spin-off television series Kenan & Kel which ran 1996 to 2000. In 2001 his official fan club was started. Thompson was also the host of the second season of Nickelodeon's animation showcase Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

Thompson has starred in several films including: Good Burger (1997), based on the All That sketch of the same name, playing Dexter Reed; and Fat Albert (2004), in which he played the title character. He has also had supporting roles in the movies Snakes on a Plane (2006), Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003), (2004) Heavyweights (1995) and (1994).

Saturday Night Live

In 2001, after Dean Edwards and Tracy Morgan left the regular cast of Saturday Night Live, Kenan Thompson and Finesse Mitchell joined the cast as featured players. In the 2005-06 season, Mitchell and Thompson became full-fledged cast members (with their places in the feature player credit taken by Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, and, later, Kristin Wiig).

Born in 1978, he was the first SNL cast member to be born after the series began in 1975. He is also the only All That alumnus to date to be a SNL cast member.

Recurring Characters':
  • Jake Denmont ("Appalachian Emergency Room")
  • DJ Dynasty Handbag ("Deep House Dish")
  • DJ Sugar Shock ("Rap Night")
  • Givindy ("Gays in Space")
  • Malik (Starkisha's boyfriend)
  • Marcus, interpreter to racist deaf comedian Ritchie B (Fred Armisen)
  • Virginianca Hastings, a black woman who bails her stepdaughter (variously played by hosts Jamie Pressly, Justin Timberlake, and Scarlett Johansson) out of trouble.
  • Reggie ("The Dakota Fanning Show")
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Filmography

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Other projects

In 2002, Thompson recorded The Good Times Comedy CD.

He wrote the introduction for the book Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul, as well as the short story entitled "The Little Notice" for Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul.

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Saturday Night Live Current Cast Members
Repertory Players
Fred Armisen | Will Forte | Bill Hader | Darrell Hammond | Seth Meyers | Amy Poehler | Maya Rudolph | Andy Samberg | Jason Sudeikis | Kenan Thompson | Kristen Wiig

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Comic-Con International: San Diego, commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, is an annual multigenre fan convention founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention and later the San Diego Comic Book Convention in 1970
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Heavyweights is a 1995 comedy film about a fat camp for kids that is taken over by a fitness guru named Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller, who would later play a similar role in 2004's ).
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All That is an American live-action,children's sketch comedy-variety show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable television network. It drew favorable comparisons to Saturday Night Live and Mad TV for its short comedic sketches and weekly musical guests.
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Kel Mitchell

Birth name Kel Johari Rice Mitchell
Born July 25 1978 (1978--) (age 29)
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Kenan & Kel is an American sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon from August 17, 1996 to April 1, 2000, totalling 62 episodes. One full-length TV movie was created, titled Two Heads Are Better Than None.
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Oh Yeah! Cartoons is a late-1990s American animation showcase that appeared on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Oh Yeah! was an animation project guided by Fred Seibert, former Creative Director of MTV Networks and President of Hanna-Barbera.
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Good Burger is a 1997 comedy film from Paramount Pictures directed by Brian Robbins and starring Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Sinbad, Shar Jackson, Abe Vigoda, and Jan Schweiterman.
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Love Don't Cost a Thing is a 2003 teen film directed by Troy Beyer which stars Nick Cannon and Christina Milian, and also features Steve Harvey, Kenan Thompson and Kal Penn. The film is based on the 1987 film Can't Buy Me Love.
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