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Kenan Thompson shares hardest part of working at SNL so long: 'There's a lot of bittersweet'

Kenan Thompson has had many great moments at 'Saturday Night Live' after working on the show for 21 seasons, but he says it also comes with 'a lot of bittersweet,' including watching so many people come and go.

"Being there a long time, you watch people come and go," Thompson, who's been on the sketch show since 2003, said on a recent episode of the Thanks Dad With Ego Nwodim podcast hosted by his SNL costar. While the Good Burger alum didn't specify the deaths he meant, the show's longtime announcer Don Pardo died during Thompson's tenure, in August 2014. Thompson has earned multiple Emmy nominations for his work on SNL, scoring a win in 2018 for co-writting the comedy song " Come Back, Barack."

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