How Kenan Thompson survived "SNL"
SalonLive from New York it’s... well, it’s Thursday night, and Kenan Thompson is back at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. “He’s a business guy, so if his phone rings, he’s like, ‘Hello, business,’ ” says Thompson. No, the Yes song!’ ” Since then, “the show has come to him a bit more,” says "SNL" co-head writer Bryan Tucker. “He and I are really glad we can do ‘Black Jeopardy,’ where we have four black cast members and it’s not a problem.” Thompson accidentally jump-started the process in 2013 when he said, of the show’s lack of black female performers, that auditions “never find ones that are ready.” All he meant, he says, was that actresses who were ready gravitated toward other jobs. Like, ‘Well, I’m still famous, bitch!’ ” But he’s on a dad’s early-rising schedule now, so he tries for a two-hour power nap most show days, snapping awake in his dressing room around 6:30 p.m. “It’s never a great nap,” he says.
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