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ARTICLE VIEW: | |
Kenan Thompson is supportive of college protests as long as they | |
don’t involve his daughter in ‘SNL’ cold open | |
By Dan Heching, CNN | |
Updated: | |
11:25 PM EDT, Sun May 5, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
“” took on one of the on its latest episode, when cast members | |
played concerned parents of New York City college kids involved in | |
protests in the cold open over the weekend. | |
On Saturday’s episode – which was (who also acted as musical guest) | |
– Michael Longfellow played a talk show host who welcomed parents | |
played by Heidi Gardner, Mikey Day and Kenan Thompson. | |
Longfellow remarked that it’s been a worrisome time on university | |
campuses throughout the country, and sought comment from his guests. | |
While Gardner and Day’s characters expressed concerns about their | |
children’s activities in the protests against Israel’s war against | |
Hamas, Thompson said he was supportive of the efforts. | |
“Well I think it’s just great, it’s wonderful,” he said. | |
“Nothing makes me prouder than young people using their voices to | |
fight for what they believe in.” | |
But when Longfellow asked Thompson how he felt about his daughter, a | |
Columbia student, specifically getting involved, the latter responded, | |
“What’s that now? When whose daughter is out there? No man, you | |
buggin’!” | |
“Alexis Vanessa Roberts better have her butt in class. Let me find | |
out that she’s in one of those damn tents instead of the dorm room | |
that I paid for,” he added. | |
When Day remarked, “I thought you were in favor of the student | |
protests,” Thompson clapped back, “Brother man, I am supportive of | |
y’all’s kids protesting. Not my kids. My kids know better, | |
shoot.” | |
Thompson later added how his daughter wouldn’t talk about “free | |
this, free that” in a protest, “because I’ll tell you what | |
ain’t free – Columbia!” | |
He also mentioned how the school has “the nerve” to charge | |
“$68,000 a year” for tuition, and how he is out there “bustin’ | |
my hump” to pay it. | |
“I do it all. Uber all day, Uber Eats all night, cut grass on the | |
weekends, sell Gucci wallets out my trunk,” he continued. “Life | |
coaching on IG, I bounty hunt whenever possible.” | |
At Columbia University on Tuesday, entered the university’s | |
Hamilton Hall and barricaded themselves inside before the institution | |
asked for the New York City Police Department’s assistance. | |
At the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia as well as The City | |
College of New York, 282 people were arrested, according to the NYPD. | |
Of the 112 people arrested at Columbia, 32 (or 29%) were not | |
affiliated with the university, according to an NYPD official. At The | |
City College of New York, 170 people were arrested and 102 (or 60%) of | |
them were not affiliated with the college. | |
CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz, Mark Morales and Celina Tebor contributed | |
to this report. | |
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