One of the most successful TV actors of his generation by most metrics, Saturday Night Live longest-running actor Kenan Thompson has been a sketch comedy staple for over 30 years now, going back to his run on Nickelodeon's All That. But that career didn't start with him speaking French in footed bathtubs, and instead involved fake fishing and real fried chicken.
Long before taking on his stressful first SNL audition, in the relatively minimal span before before becoming a proper child star, Thompson booked a TV ad as his first paying gig. Reflecting on that pre-teen period on Richer Lives by SoFi, the actor told host Vivian Tu:
