‘SNL’: Kenan Thompson And Kel Mitchell Staff Up With Keke Palmer For A Gritty, Dramatic ‘Kenan & Kel’ Reboot

Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell have reunited with somewhat assist from Keke Palmer!

Palmer made her “Saturday Night time Reside” debut over the weekend — the place she additionally revealed her thrilling being pregnant information —  and for one of many night time’s pre-recorded sketches, followers obtained an opportunity to see precisely what it might seem like if she and Thompson rebooted the beloved sitcom “Kenan & Kel”.

On this model, nevertheless, it might be Thompson and Palmer as the 2 leads within the all-new “Kenan & Kelly”.

The sketch was introduced as a behind-the-scenes documentary, which supplies a glimpse at how Palmer satisfied Thompson to do the present with out giving him loads of info — one thing he got here to remorse.

“I ought to have requested extra questions,” Thompson shared with the documentary cameras. “I believed it was going to be a Jordan Peele-produced streaming collection. I wouldn’t have mentioned sure to ‘Kenan & Kel However Now It’s Simply Kelly’.”

“I had already bought the present earlier than I even met Kenan,” Palmer defined in a separate interview. “I instructed the producers we wrote it collectively.”

Whereas Thompson’s tackle his outdated character is a little more accountable and mature, Palmer’s tackle Kelly was a reasonably spot-on impression of the Kel character — besides with a distinct catch phrase, and in addition she’s pregnant with Kenan’s child and she or he delivers lengthy, tearful, awards season-bait monologues.

“Keke was gunning for an Emmy Award, so she wished gritty, dramatic moments in it,” Thompson defined. “And I believed, ‘That received’t work.’ And I used to be proper!”

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As we see extra of the reboot progress, a really particular visitor star makes an sudden look — Mitchell himself, flawlessly diving into his “Kenan & Kel” persona with out hesitation.

The joyful reunion is short-lived when the shop Kenan and Kelly work at is robbed by a gunman, and Kel unsuccessfully tries to make use of “Kel-fu” to disarm him, getting fatally shot within the course of. Which is when a sobbing Kelly drops a bombshell — she’s really pregnant with Kel’s child, after dishonest on Thompson.

“The present is not good,” Thompson concludes. “However, Jordan Peele referred to as us.”

The digicam pulls again to disclose Mitchell sitting subsequent to Thompson, and he reveals, “He desires us to do a sequel to ‘Nope’!” (The sequel is revealed in a poster, and is clearly titled “Yep”.)

“Saturday Night time Reside” airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET, 8:30 p.m. PT on International.

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