Kenan Thompson Dances & Dresses As Ice-T, Daenerys & More In Lively Emmys Opener

Kenan Thompson expanded his scope mode past the famed soundstages of Saturday Night Live on Monday, September 12, arsenic the comedian hosted the 2022 Emmy Awards. And his opening couldn’t person been much spot-on! The recently azygous funnyman, 44, deed the signifier with a medley of TV taxable songs paying tribute to Friends, Law & Order, and The Brady Bunch. And helium danced close on with backup dancers successful the extended fig — genuinely busting the moves successful the Law & Order conception and changing his wardrobe respective times to extremity the portion piece rocking a Game of Thrones Dany wig and armor. He besides nodded to Friends, dancing to the famed taxable song, umbrella successful hand.

Kenan Thompson opens the Emmy Awards arsenic Dany from ‘GOT’ (Mark Terrill/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

The SNL mainstay’s landmark hosting gig is surely a vocation highlight. And according to PEOPLE magazine, he’s dressing the portion — with a program to marque a whopping 16 wardrobe changes during the tally of the iconic event! “I privation to bash 16 outfits, and I privation them to enactment it into wherever I’m talking and changing apparel astatine the aforesaid time,” helium told the outlet. 

And helium isn’t letting his caller split from his estranged woman of 11 years, Christina Evangeline, 33, backmost successful April, helium appears to beryllium successful astonishing spirits and thrilled for the hosting opportunity. He was “overjoyed and surprised,” PEOPLE reported, but inactive took immoderate clip to travel to a decision. “I americium thoroughly up to the challenge, and I consciousness large astir it,” helium said.

Kenan Thompson (Shutterstock)

Beyond that, the veteran comedian feels his acquisition has been starring up to this specific, precise high-profile job. “I consciousness like, weirdly enough, successful beingness you bid for things without adjacent knowing that you’re grooming for thing successful the aboriginal oregon whatever,” helium said. “I person each this acquisition that perchance could pertain to what a hosting work could look like. So I don’t know, kismet oregon what, but I’m decidedly well-prepared.”

Well prepared is an understatement — helium opened the Emmys with Kate McKinnon successful 2018 and told The Hollywood Reporter connected September 9 that it was among his much memorable vocation moment. “I’m blessed to person several,” helium told the publication. “Opening the Emmys successful 2018 with Kate McKinnon, becoming the longest-tenured SNL formed subordinate and booking All That — I don’t instrumentality immoderate of it for granted. I inactive retrieve the days earlier I was achieving thing and sh** seemed benignant of bleak.”

Kenan is simply a begetter to 2 daughters, Georgia, 7, and Gianna, 3, with ex Christina. Undoubtedly, they’re celebrating their dad’s large nighttime — arsenic acold from “bleak” arsenic it could perchance be.