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Getty Images(2)Kenan Thompson Doesn't disagree with Pete DavidsonRecent comments about Saturday Night LiveAmazing starting salary – but he says it's all part of the process.
“It's more about getting the job than getting paid for the job,” Thompson, 46, said. diverse on Thursday, December 6, before refusing to provide any specific salary figures.
Thompson, who was on SNL Since 2003, he said staff members have had to “pay your dues a little bit.” The idea came about after Thompson's former representative revealed that newcomers are paid around $3,000 per episode.
“Do you guys know what they're paying us?” Davidson, 31, who died Eight seasons as an SNL cast member From 2014 to 2022, according to a video report by New York Magazine On Wednesday, December 4th. “It's like three big rings. I think I got dinner.”
He's the dude! Kenan Thompson is the longest-serving cast member of Saturday Night Live — but his career goes back decades. The Ohio native got his start on Nickelodeon's All That in 1994. Throughout his time on the sketch series, Thompson often collaborated with actor Kel Mitchell. The duo's fast friendship and comedic timing led to (…)
Jason Sudeikis He shared the same sentiment, adding, “I mean you don't make enough money to make big purchases. I think the New York rental was probably the biggest purchase I made after writing my first year on SNL.”
Thompson began his career as a cast member on multiple projects at Nickelodeon. From there, the comedian joined Saturday Night Live — and has been ever since He remained the longest-tenured actor Member on display date.
“That first commercial when they paid me, it was $800,” Thompson revealed Demi Lovato's Child star Document in September. “I was 12, so it might as well have been a million dollars.”
Thompson recalls going from “rags to riches and back to rags” again.
“In Florida they didn't have the same business laws. My mom met this guy either through church or a community who claimed to be good at getting you out of your tax problems. He was basically a con artist and ran away with my biggest profits up to that point.” By the time he was discovered “This was at the end of Nickelodeon's tenure.”
“It was devastating because I found out in front of others,” Thompson concluded. I was going to buy a house in Atlanta—my first house—and he didn't show up with the damn check.
The experience prompted Thompson to reconsider His future is in the industry.
“I really thought about not wanting to act anymore if these were the things I had to go through,” he admitted at the time. “It was like I was forced to stay humble — if you will — because when I could be at my peak, everyone knew my name for years, and I didn't want that because I didn't want people to know that I was struggling. It's kind of Of the beautiful mystery and irony of life.
