-Kenan, I wanted to ask you about this.
This is very, very cool.
Demi, I don't know if you saw this.
-I did see that.
-Kenan got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
-Oh!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah. That was awesome.
-I couldn't be happier for you, bud.
What was -- -Peep the bowtie.
-Yeah, looking -- You're looking sharp.
But, I mean, that's an amazing accomplishment.
-It looks like I left there and started selling bean pies.
-Yeah, no, no.
Did -- Did you -- What was it like?
What's the vibe there, though?
-You know, it was -- it was amazing.
It was very surreal. My whole family was there.
You know, generations of family and stuff like that.
So it was just very touching.
It was hot. -Yeah.
-You could -- You could see it on my little one's face.
Like, she was not having it.
-She was like, "This is just too hot.
Hurry -- Hurry this up." -She was over it.
Yeah, she wanted chicken fingers.
So... -Yeah, yeah. She did.
You sent me a picture, which I am glad.
Because you're on the carpet here.
Look. Isn't this nice? You're wearing the bowtie.
You got the thing and the star and the red carpet.
-The red carpet out there. That's nice.
-Yeah, and then, under the red carpet, you see this poking out.
-Yeah, on the side.
-That's Lorne Michaels.
-Yes.
-How disrespectful. How disrespectful...
-Yeah, it seemed real dis-- Just half-covered.
-...to the great Lorne Michaels.
-Yeah, that's just -- That's cold, Lorne Michaels.
-He got Phantom of the Opera'd. -Yeah.
-He got Phantom'd. -Yeah.
-Cover the whole thing up. You know?
-Yeah, don't even let you know that you're over Lorne's star.
-Peeking at me. It's weird. He's always watching.
-But you're next to -- You're next to Lorne's star.
-Yeah, it's crazy. -That's kind of cool.
-It's unbelievable, man.
Like, I mean, when are you getting yours?
You're getting yours...?
[ Audience oohs ] ...soon?
I'm genuinely -- I'm genuinely asking.
-Yeah, they told me that they were full.
-They're full up?
-They told me that the sidewalk was full.
-I saw a couple of spaces.
-They said, "We have enough stars, yeah."
-I'm gonna go ahead and advocate for Jimmy to get his star ASAP.
Am I right?
[ Cheers and applause ] -I mean, yeah.
-You've put in more work than I have.
-I put some work in, right? -I'm here for it.
-But I didn't -- I'll tell you what I didn't do.
-What? -"Good Burger."
-Oh, look at the "Good Burger" little kiddy faces.
Look at those little babies.
-I have to say, I had this on an orange VHS tape.
-You had the orange tape? -Yes, I had the orange tape.
-Oh, amazing. -That's legit. That's real.
-Yes. Yes. -Nickelodeon.
-VHS tapes were a way for...
[ Laughter ] -Yeah. They understand.
-...people to watch movies in the '90s, yeah.
-And this is 25 years ago. -Yeah, that's crazy.
Anybody feeling old yet? -No.
-When you first met Kel Mitchell,
when you got together, did you go,
"Oh, we got a little chemistry"?
Did you feel like, "Oh, we're gonna be funny together"?
-When we started working together, because, like,
we were kids, so we had school at first, and I was a nerd.
So, like, all the other kids had met each other.
They had, like, a pizza party, and I was hired kind of last,
so I missed all the, like, introduction night or whatever.
-Oh, no!
-So, my first -- my first day was that morning.
And, you know, everybody was just doing their school work,
and I was super quiet, so everybody was looking at me
like I was standoffish or -- or whatever.
And then we started rehearsing.
And we did these characters called Mavis and Clavis,
which were these two kind of, like,
old Black guys in a balcony,
like, heckling people or whatever.
-Mavis and Clavis. -Mavis and Clavis.
And, yeah, we've been -- -Two friends.
Their names happen to rhyme with each other.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Never met each other.
They just came together. 'Cause it's -- it's sketch comedy.
-"Yeah, that's interesting. Your name rhymes with mine."
-Yeah, and I just immediately recognized
that he was brilliant, you know?
And we were very similar,
so then we just hit it off from that point.
So it was very much a day-one kind of thing.
-Yeah. I know this is a little cryptic here, but...
At the bottom, it says, "What's up with that part two?"
-Yeah, what's up with that part two?
You know what I'm saying? What's up with that sequel there?
You know what I mean? -Wait. So what are you saying?
[ Cheers and applause ] [ Drum roll ]
-Yes! -Are you saying --
Are you saying that "Good Burger 2" is happening?
-I would like it to.
-Okay. [ Drum roll stops abruptly ]
[ Laughter ]
That's very anticlimactic. -Very anti--
"I would love to annou--"
No, we are, you know, working harder on it than -- than ever.
So it's about, you know, meeting the numbers,
letting the numbers match up, 'cause I need them numbers.
You know what I'm talking about.
-Oh, stop it. You're not even looking at anyone.
You weren't even looking at --
-You guys -- You guys feel me, right?
-There's no one there. Do you have an idea for it?
-You know the numbers I need, man.
[ Laughter ]
-Do you have any idea of what it would be about?
-Uh -- -No.
-I feel like Kel should have, like, a million kids.
Like, Ed's character should have, like, a million kids.
And then, like, I'm coming out of jail for something
that he put me in jail for. [ Laughter ]
-That he did and you -- yeah.
And he had a great life. You went to prison. Yeah, yeah.
Can you believe that you're going into the 20th season
of "Saturday Night Live"?
Two-zero. -Yeah. Two-zero. It's crazy.
[ Cheers and applause ]
20 years. -This is legendary status.
Legendary status.
-I mean, I agree with you, sir.
It is legendary status.
I don't know how to, like, process that, man.
You know what I'm saying? It's still all about, like --
-I mean, we were there -- How do you --
Do you remember the years we were together?
-It was only one year.
Like, I remember you being
the biggest damn near rock star on the show.
You know what I'm saying? Like, you didn't really do much work.
Um... [ Laughter ]
-That's why I want my star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
-Only because you were so seasoned at --
You could just come, float in, do whatever you wanted,
and, like, that was cool.
Like, you didn't even feel the pressures of anything.
Like, you did -- We did a "Grease" sketch
where you had to sing, like,
that super high-pitched John Travolta.
And you -- you crushed that.
Like, not a lot of people can squeak up that "high."
♪ High ♪ You know what I'm talking about?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -And it was you and Tina.
And y'all just seemed like y'all were married, and that was cool
and just, like, best friends. -Yeah.
-And it was -- it was an interesting,
like, brotherhood to join.
Brotherhood/sisterhood. -Yeah.
-And I was so happy that y'all were like
my -- my older siblings. You know, I have such --
-And then I left you in the dust.
-In the dust. Completely.
And went to do, like, mad movies.
-Yeah, I said, "Son, take care of this place."
-Yeah, and then you came -- you came back home.
-I came back home. -Right to the sixth floor.
-I did. -We're -- We're right upstairs.
-I see you all the time. I'm always rooting for you, buddy.
-Nice having you back home, Dad. Thanks.
It's good. Good times.
-I promised I wouldn't cry. -Yeah.
-I promised everyone I wouldn't cry.
Can we talk about the Emmys? -Let's talk about the Emmys.
I'm hosting it. -You're hosting the Emmys.
-Bing, bong, bang! Yeah.
-You've won on Emmy. You've been nominated for Emmys.
Do you remember first going to the Emmys?
-Yeah, my first time actually going, I had to open
the show with Kate doing this, like, song and dance.
And we -- -Oh, yeah. I remember that.
-Yeah, with, like, all the other, like, I think --
I want to say NBC kind of talent.
And it was, like, a full-on week of rehearsal.
And we had just won the previous week.
-That's your first time at the Emmys.
-My first time. -You opened it.
-So it was like a two-week experience.
We won at the Creative Emmys
the week before for "Come Back, Barack."
And then, yeah, we --
My first time going, I had to open the show.
Big, big-ass stage. Crazy.
-What do you think are the ingredients
for a good awards show?
-Not to bore everybody like I hope I'm not doing right now.
-No. -No.
-Yeah, 'cause it gets kind of redundant, I guess.
You know there's gonna be, like, 20, 30 awards or something.
So you don't want people to, like, you know, get up there
like the NBA draft and they're like,
"I want to thank God, my family, and, you know.
I want to try hard."
You know, like that Bill Burr joke.
But it's my job to, like, keep everything fresh and hype
and, you know, celebrating, you know, artistic creativity.
-I don't think they could have picked a better human
to host this. -Oh, man. Thank you, man.
-Kenan Thompson. Congratulations.
-Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
-Kenan Thompson, everybody.
Hosting the Emmys, live, September 12th on NBC.
They're also streaming on Peacock.
-Right. -Jeremy Allen White
joins us after the break. Stick around, everybody.