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Kenan Thompson Wants A-Listers Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise on ‘SNL’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Nickelodeon’s golden child Kenan Thompson was recently named Saturday Night Live‘s longest-serving cast member, and in an exclusive interview with In Touch, the All That star revealed who his dream guest hosts would be. We can’t lie — these are some pretty solid choices!
“Lots of people. It would be cool if Eddie Murphy came back. I say that a lot, or like Denzel [Washington], Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise — any of those dudes that haven’t done it yet that you feel like they should have totally,” Kenan shared. When asked how he celebrated such a milestone, the Kenan & Kel alum candidly replied, “By working! That’s the biggest accomplishment of it all. It’s good to keep that in focus — that’s the whole point of it.”
Kenan on Saturday Night Live.
In Touch caught up with Kenan at the 2017 Cristian Rivera Foundation Ninth Annual Celebrity Gala last week at Capitale in NYC — which according to a press release, “is dedicated to finding a cure for this disease so that no child or family suffers through the horrors of DIPG again. To date the organization has raised more than $850,000 to support the groundbreaking research of Dr. Mark Souweidane of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College and Dr. Oren Becher of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital and the Lurie Cancer center at Northwestern University and to support children and their families while they face DIPG.”
Kenan is close with the organization’s founder, John “Gungie” Rivera — who unfortunately lost his son Christian to the disease. “I’ve known John for years. We used to meet when he used to promote clubs and stuff like that and I knew his son, Christian,” he stated. “We fell out of touch for awhile then I caught back up with him a few years ago and he told me what happened to Christian and told me about the foundation and I’ve been involved since then — like, six or seven years ago.”
Kenan Thompson with the Cristian Rivera Foundation founder, John “Gungie” Rivera.
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