Kenan Thompson ponders his time at Saturday Night Live coming to an end.
Thompson, who holds the title of being the longest-running cast member in the shows history, recently spoke to People about what its going to feel like to leave the show one day.
I definitely do. Its, its gonna suck, Thompson said about potentially exiting the sketch-comedy series. Theres just so many layers to it. Its not just the on-screen that you see in that one, camera shot. Its so many people behind the scenes and years and years and years with each one of those people. So its gonna be a lot. He also opened up about what its like to see his cast members leaving. Last month, Bowen Yang left the show after joining as a writer in 2018. He is the most recent cast member to exit.
Its tough for me because I have yet to have the moment, Thompson said. If I was on the other side of it, Id be a little more like, Yeah, you know, its all good, like, Shake it off kind of thing. But, Im dreading the moment. I might collapse in the moment because its been so many years and so many relationships.
Thats gonna be a drastic change at this point that I never thought, you know, SNL would be such a large component in my life, he continued. I never thought Id even get the job in the first place.
The comedian has been a main player on the sketch-comedy series since 2003. He joined in season 23.
In a 2018 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he spoke about his fear of leaving the show. I think about leaving and I fear it. This is such a special place, you want to do your part here, but you also want to make room for people that are coming behind you, he said. This was the first year I really started feeling like, OK, I could push out of it now.'










