Are you on your way somewhere?
Are you this dressed up just for me?
Yes, I'm headed to church.
[LAUGHTER]
And I thought I'd stop by your show before I went.
No, I'm at work.
We're shooting and I'm on the morning show.
So whenever I'm shooting the morning show versions,
I'm always in a suit in stuff.
How are you?
Well, you look very handsome.
Good to see you.
It's good to see you.
I'm great.
Thanks for asking.
And you are so busy.
So you're doing the sitcom in LA.
But you're doing Saturday Night Live in New York.
So you fly back every--
like, what are you flying in--
what day?
Sunday?
Well, I'm teleporting on Saturdays.
So I just get right to it.
You know, I dissolve Star Trek style.
But no, we're flying Friday nights
and then coming back Sunday morning.
Because my family's out here with me,
so I just come running back to them first thing Sunday
morning.
Wow.
That's got to be be exhausting, though, to get on a plane.
And SNL is exhausting enough.
Yeah.
I mean, but weirdly enough, SNL is like my calm place.
You know, so I go there and I can relax a little bit.
Even though I have a lot to do on the fly,
it's kind of like my comfortable shoes there.
Yeah, and I miss all my people over there too.
But I have very sweet people that I'm working with over here
as well.
So I'm very blessed to go from loving environment
to loving environment.
Yeah.
And how great is Don Johnston?
He's a friend of mine.
I love him.
Yes.
We talk about guys.
You guys are Montecito buddies.
Yes.
So that's cool.
I dig that, not to, like, put your business out there.
[LAUGHTER]
Well, I don't think you mentioned the address,
so it's OK.
So how's it going on SNL?
We have a new administration.
How has that changed things?
It has definitely changed things,
I think, for the better.
You know?
We can get back to just doing silly sketches
and it doesn't have to always be about politics.
And that's a good thing.
And whenever this current administration
starts stumbling, I'm sure we'll be on top of that as well.
But it was cool to do the sports dudes on Super Bowl
week and stuff like that, just silly stuff.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Well, you know how much I love you.
I think you're hilarious.
Lorne Michaels is producing your sitcom.
And he called you a genius, which I agree with him.
I think you are so hilarious.
And I just--
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I really do.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
When did you meet-- did you meet Lorne when you auditioned?
How did you meet him?
I only met him after I got the job.
But I saw him from afar.
You know, I can recognize his figure in a shadow basically.
He's just that infamous.
But at the audition, I was-- it was at the Stand Up New York.
If you know it, it's a small club on the Upper East Side
or whatever-- very small on, like, a side street.
So I was outside across the street
practicing whatever I was coming up with, basically
just panicking.
[LAUGHTER]
And I saw him pull up and he went in.
And I just saw the back of his head.
And I was, like, wow-- that's Lorne Michaels,
like, unbelievable.
And then it was on from there.
And I went in and bombed pretty hard.
But I had fun.
And I got called back into the studio.
And then that was much cooler.
But I could kind of see him sitting off in the distance.
And then there was a weird shadow over him again.
You know, he's like this mystery man.
And then I got the job and I finally went in his office
and got to meet him.
But, yeah, he's a very giant figure in my eyes.
And it's cool to be close to him.
Yeah.
Man, he has done well.
He has created, obviously, SNL and lots of other shows.
And obviously he believes in your show.
Tell everybody what Kenan is about.
I mean, it's unbelievable to even hear
that he would call me a genius or supports my career
like he does.
But, yeah, it's a beautiful thing.
He's producing this with this.
I play a widowed father of two girls.
And Don Johnston is playing my father-in-law.
And he came down to help me with my grieving period
and decided not to leave.
So he's kind of a thorn in my side a little bit.
And then Chris Redd, my good buddy and my brother from SNL,
is playing my actual brother on the show, slash, manager.
But he does not do a good job.
So between the two of them, they're
kind of like the three men, three knuckleheads
basically trying to raise two girls.
He's hilarious as well.
So you're doing SNL, you're doing your sitcom,
and you're also going to be hosting the Kids' Choice Awards
next month, just to squeeze something else in.
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Yeah, Kids Choice is on March 13.
And it's virtual this year, so it'll
be a little bit different.
But we do have a special surprise guest.
Can I tell everybody what the special surprise guest is?
You should, yes.
I should, right?
They kind of want to hear now that I brought it up.
Well, I mean, if I said--
it would be mean if I said, no, we'd just keep it between us.
Yeah.
I kind of put you in a bad position there.
Yeah.
That's on me.
That's my bad.
Our special surprise guest is Justin Bieber this year.
Justin Bieber is performing.
He's going to be performing.
[APPLAUSE]
So that's a big giant move and a big gesture from Justin Bieber
to Nickelodeon.
So we're excited about that.
I'm excited.
I'm excited to see you host it.
We're going to play a game of impressions
when we come back, which I think you're
going to be marvelous at.
Oh, I can't wait.
Yeah, me too.
We'll be right back.
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