Kenan Thompson is just as puzzled as anyone about the reason why Morgan Wallen rushed Saturday Night Live Step at the end of the last episode, saying goodbye to welcome Mikey Madison.
“I don’t know what’s going on by people’s minds when they decide to do things like that. I don’t know if he understood the mission or not, or if he really felt a certain type,” said Thompson Weekly entertainment While speaking of his new GDR is no Joke Campaign with Phathom Pharmaceuticals to raise awareness of the state and treatment options such as Voquezna.
Longest Snl The actor confirms that he “saw him definitely” when the musical guest left prematurely. “You see someone before you have the chance to say hello or say good work or something like that, he dives,” he recalls. “I thought he might be going to the pot or something like that.”
The release of Morgan came just when the credits began to drive for viewers at home, during a time when fans are used to seeing guests and actors interact on stage.
“It is definitely a peak in the standard,” explains Thompson. “We are so used to what everyone turns around and makes us fall, everyone says:” Good job, good job, good work. “So when there is a start of that, it’s like, hmm, I wonder what it is?”
Thompson says he “never met” Wallen in the most recent episode or back when the country star played for the first time as a musical guest in December 2020, which came after a previous one Snl The beginnings were canceled due to Wallen Breaking Covid-19 Protocols.
“Seems to be a complicated individual, I suppose,” thinks Thompson, noting that it is not the first time that a musical guest has suddenly left.
“Prince did the same thing,” he said, clarifying, “I’m not saying that Morgan Wallen is Prince, but we were not surprised because Prince was notoriously standing. It’s just as he was. So we just thought like,” okay, now he returned to Fantasyland. “” ”
He continues: “But Saturday, I guess it was just different because it was so abrupt. And it was already such a small group on stage anyway. So it was like, Oh Wow, it was quite visible. Do you know what I say? It was a pretty visible thing.”
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Later in the evening, the musician published a photo of a private jet with the legend “Get Me To God’s Country” on his Instagram stories, that Thompson admits that he did not appreciate.
“The” country of God “of all this is strange because it is, what are you trying to say? You try to say that we are not in the country of God? We are not all in the country of God? We are not all under the umbrella of God? It is not necessarily my favorite,” said Thompson. “But whatever. As we have something to do with it, we had a new show. We had Jack Black this week. We are talking about GERD. Everything will be fine.”
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