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"Kenan & Kel" Theme Song: A Dramatic Reading by Kel Mitchell
Live from New York, it's different epic Kenan & Kel reunion!
Kel Mitchell made a cameo on Saturday Night Live Dec. 3, marking his archetypal clip connected the NBC series. He appeared successful a sketch with formed subordinate Kenan Thompson, his erstwhile co-star connected the hit Nickelodeon comedy, and impermanent big Keke Palmer.
In the skit, the 3 enactment successful and connection a behind-the-scenes commentary about a mock Kenan & Kel reboot, a play series titled Kenan & Kelly, which besides incorporates the actress' pregnancy. Keke had confirmed rumors she is expecting her archetypal child with a bare babe bump uncover during her SNL monologue.
In the Kenan & Kelly sketch, Kel makes a melodramatic entranceway and an arsenic melodramatic exit. "The amusement is not good," Kenan deadpans successful a confessional, earlier adding jokingly, "But Jordan Peele called us."
Kel adds, "He wants america to bash a sequel to Nope."
Watch Kenan and Kel reunite connected SNL below:
Kenan and Kel, some 44, starred unneurotic connected Kenan & Kel for 4 years until the bid ended in 2000. They past appeared onscreen unneurotic astatine the 2022 Emmy Awards just this past September. Kenan, who hosted the ceremony, performed successful a abbreviated sketch in which Kel was revealed to beryllium a impermanent at one of the event's bars, with Kumail Nanjiani as the bartender.
In 2015, Kenan and Kel reunited to co-star successful a "Good Burger" sketch on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In 2018, they competed against each different connected a revival of the classic Nickelodeon crippled show Double Dare. The 2 aboriginal became co-executive producers of a 2019 reboot of All That, the '0s Nickelodeon sketch drama bid that made them famous.
While Kel has ne'er appeared on SNL earlier his caller onscreen reunion with Kenan, the histrion really auditioned for the amusement successful 2003, the aforesaid twelvemonth his erstwhile co-star tried retired for the bid and was chosen to articulation the cast.
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"I deliberation it's hilarious present reasoning astir it, but present doing standup and being bully astatine it now, one recognize present what I did was not good," Kel said successful a 2015 Reddit iAMA session astir his SNL audition. "But fundamentally I did this gag astir DMX - if DMX was successful TOY STORY. It was truthful bad, it was good, to me."
He continued, "And I retrieve Tina Fey was there, and I retrieve afterwards she was similar 'Good job!' but I deliberation it was a small excessively brainsick for SNL."
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Kel said helium besides performed a Michael Jackson parody during his audition. "I did a opus astir Michael Jackson if helium was allergic to trees, hahahaha!" helium wrote. "I starting dancing, I deliberation my vigor was truthful crazy, I did similar a moonwalk determination and really stepped connected 1 of the tables close successful beforehand of the stage, and flipped the array with someone's portion connected it over, it was a MESS! It was SO funny."
Kel added, "But I wasn't upset astir it. I was successful a bully people of guys who went for SNL and didn't get it." He besides said, "So I'll beryllium a guest on the show."
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In an April 2022 interrogation with Yahoo! Entertainment, Kel recalled however Kenan got callbacks aft helium did not. "He went through, I wanna say, 4 oregon 5 much auditions earlier helium really got in," helium said, adding, "And I emotion Kenan. I emotion watching him connected there."
Kel continued, "We speech each the time. It's much astir america being dads present and talking astir the kids and things similar that."
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Kenan Thompson & Kel Mitchell
The 2 had a Kenan & Kel reunion on SNL connected Dec. 3, 2022, astir 19 years aft they some auditioned for the NBC bid astatine the aforesaid time, with Kenan being invited to articulation the cast. Months earlier their on-air reunion, they besides reunited astatine the 2022 Emmys.
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Ian Beattie, Daniel Portman, Natalia Tena and Ian McElhinney reunited connected Feb. 2 ahead of the opening of Warner Bros' GOT Studio Tour, located astatine 1 of the HBO show's archetypal shooting spots successful Banbridge, Northern Ireland.
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Lost
In August 2018, Henry Ian Cusick and Sonya Walger, who played fan-favorite mates Desmond and Penny, reunited astatine the spot wherever their characters archetypal met. She posted connected her Twitter leafage a photograph of her and the histrion standing together outside St. Andrew's Priory School successful Honolulu, which was utilized to picture a monastery successful Eddington, Scotland connected the touching play 4 occurrence "The Constant."
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