Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell on ‘All That’ Co-Stars Making Cameos for ‘Good Burger 2’ (Exclusive)
For Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, filming Good Burger 2 felt like a hangout session, particularly when their former co-stars have been additionally concerned.
Speaking to ET on the Park Lane Hotel in New York City forward of the sequel’s premiere on Paramount+, Thompson and Mitchell, each 45, shared that the brand new challenge, as Thompson tells it, “didn’t really feel like work.”
“Just good times,” Thompson added. “It was just a big hangout day, you know what I’m saying?”
It was again in March whereas on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon when Thompson and Mitchell formally confirmed that Good Burger 2 was a go. The sequel to the 1997 hit comedy not solely reunites Thompson and Mitchell but additionally a few of their All That co-stars, together with Lori Beth Denberg as Connie Muldoon and Josh Server as Fizz.
“Lori Beth has the biggest monologue in the film and got it every time,” Mitchell raved about his co-star. “Server is in the building.”
“We’ve been rocking for years, so it’s been awesome,” Thompson added. “It wasn’t so much reuniting. We’ve been around each other, but this is like a reuniting for the audience to see us all together is what it is. It’s for ya’ll.”
All That, after all, is the sketch comedy accountable for Good Burger. For years, followers wished a sequel however nothing took place. Then in 2018, the excitement began when Thompson reunited with Mitchell on The Tonight Show, throwing it again to the skit the Nickelodeon teen comedy duo carried out on the ensemble sketch present, earlier than breaking off to their very own sequence, Kenan and Kel, in 1996.
Then in 2022, Thompson and Mitchell pulled off an epic Good Burger reunion on the Emmy Awards, the place Thompson was the host. Midway via the present, the SNL star wandered over to the bar for one of many ceremony’s comedic interludes, the place a person simply so occurred to be slumped over on the bar, apparently handed out.
“Excuse me, sir, can we get you a drink or something?” Thompson requested, as Mitchell sat up and smiled brightly.
“You know what, can I get a Good Burger?” he requested, as an exuberant Thompson hugged him, and the pair jumped round excitedly.
On the heels of the sequel premiering Nov. 22 on Paramount+, Thompson and Mitchell walked down reminiscence lane and recalled assembly for the primary time on All That some three many years in the past, they usually shared their first impressions of one another. Mitchell recalled Thompson being “cool, ’cause he had rollerblades on” in addition to his iconic now-retro Mighty Ducks jersey.
“I was like, man, family, like this is my brother. You my brother, man,” Mitchell stated, to which Thompson replied with, “It was an immediate bond because I was happy to see another — not to get racial — another Black face, you know what I’m saying?”
“Yeah, facts,” Mitchell responded.
“Somebody that I could actually relate to in unknown kind of territory ’cause I’d never been on a TV show before,” Thompson continued. “We had very similar backgrounds. It just seemed like we were up at very similar times in our lives and careers; similar families, similar cities. We just seemed like similar cats.”
Good Burger 2 premieres Nov. 22 on Paramount+.
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