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Kenan Thompson’s 5 Best Recurring ‘SNL’ Roles, Ranked
His new sitcom is fine, but ‘Saturday Night Live’ without him would be doomed. Doomed!
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2 min readFeb 20, 2021
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5. Reese De’What
In a 2019 Washington Post profile of Thompson, SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels called the actor “a master in [the] studio,” adding that “he knows the best way to do just about everything.” Thompson’s glue-guy gifts are on full display as De’What, a terrible husband who sets up clips of even more terrible television shows. His line readings are somehow surprising — no one else would deliver them the same way, and no one else could make a line as basic as “This is not why I’m here!” even remotely as funny. All hail the master.
4. Darnell Hayes
“Game show host” is a tough role on Saturday Night Live — the show uses the trope a lot to showcase…
