While we wait for SNL to return to the 2024 TV schedule , Kenan Thompson has been everywhere lately thanks to Olympics coverage. While my favorite moment so far has probably involved him roasting co-star Colin Jost , he also popped up on Late Night with Seth Meyers recently to talk about his recent gigs. Clearly the late night host doesn’t have the millennial fondness for the actor that I have, because he thought Mr.
Thompson’s skating skills were a bit quacky at first. Meyers recalled recently that he and the Saturday Night Live cast would go do that iconic thing where they would ice skate at Rockefeller Center every year around the holidays. Thompson is an A+ skater, and Meyers said he never, ever saw it coming.
Turns out, that’s because he didn’t grow up watching Thompson in The Mighty Ducks ’ excellent follow-up Mighty Ducks 2 . I’m not sure how Seth Meyers could have missed such an icon of Disney live-action excellence, but here’s Seth’s side of the story: The thing is, I’m always like, ‘Kenan you look so young and yet the same.’ We’ve talked about this on the show before, but every now and again on the Christmas Show at SNL we would go down and we would skate at 30 Rock.
And I remember we went down one year and I was like, ‘Oh Kenan’s the best skater by far.’ And I’m like, ‘Where’d you learn to skate?’ You were like, ‘Oh, Mighty Ducks.’ I’m like, ‘Oh of course.
’ Kenan Thompson admitted that Mighty Ducks 2 was actually his .