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Kenan Thompson expanded his vary well beyond the famed soundstages of Saturday Night time Reside on Monday, September 12, because the comic hosted the 2022 Emmy Awards. And his opening couldn’t have been extra spot-on! The newly single funnyman, 44, hit the stage with a medley of TV theme songs paying tribute to Pals, Regulation & Order, and The Brady Bunch. And he danced proper together with backup dancers within the prolonged quantity — really busting the strikes within the Regulation & Order section and altering his wardrobe a number of occasions to finish the piece whereas rocking a Sport of Thrones Dany wig and armor. He additionally nodded to Pals, dancing to the famed theme music, umbrella in hand.
The SNL mainstay’s landmark internet hosting gig is unquestionably a profession spotlight. And in accordance with PEOPLE journal, he’s dressing the half — with a plan to make a whopping 16 wardrobe modifications in the course of the run of the enduring occasion! “I need to do 16 outfits, and I need them to work it into the place I’m speaking and altering garments on the identical time,” he instructed the outlet.
And he isn’t letting his current break up from his estranged spouse of 11 years, Christina Evangeline, 33, again in April, he seems to be in wonderful spirits and thrilled for the internet hosting alternative. He was “overjoyed and shocked,” PEOPLE reported, however nonetheless took a while to make a decision. “I’m totally as much as the problem, and I really feel nice about it,” he mentioned.
Past that, the veteran comic feels his expertise has been main as much as this particular, very high-profile job. “I really feel like, weirdly sufficient, in life you practice for issues with out even realizing that you simply’re coaching for one thing sooner or later or no matter,” he mentioned. “I’ve all this expertise that probably might pertain to what a internet hosting responsibility might seem like. So I don’t know, kismet or what, however I’m undoubtedly well-prepared.”
Nicely ready is an understatement — he opened the Emmys with Kate McKinnon in 2018 and instructed The Hollywood Reporter on September 9 that it was amongst his extra memorable profession second. “I’m blessed to have a number of,” he instructed the publication. “Opening the Emmys in 2018 with Kate McKinnon, changing into the longest-tenured SNL solid member and reserving All That — I don’t take any of it with no consideration. I nonetheless bear in mind the times earlier than I used to be attaining something and sh** appeared form of bleak.”
Kenan is a father to 2 daughters, Georgia, 7, and Gianna, 3, with ex Christina. Undoubtedly, they’re celebrating their dad’s large night time — as removed from “bleak” because it might probably be.
