Good Hang with Amy Poehler - Kenan Thompson

Kenan Thompson showed up in some Gucci glasses. Amy hangs with the 'SNL' star and talks about what he brought to his role as Toto, over-tapping T.C., and wearing a will.i.am wig while very hungover. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Maya Rudolph and Kenan ThompsonExecutive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, and Aleya Zenieris; lighting director Caroline Jannace; audio producer Kaya McMullen; social producer Bridget Geerlings; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and bookers Kat Spillane and Paige GarbariniOriginal Music: Amy Miles This episode is brought to you by Uber Eats. Stock up on glue sticks, pens, and other back-to-school essentials from your favorite brands for $5 or less on Uber Eats. Order now https://www.ubereats.com/ This episode is brought to you by Subaru. Love goes the extra mile in the Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid and Subaru Forester Hybrid. Visit https://subaru.com/hybrid to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 1h 10m
Broadcast on: 01 Sep 2026
Audio Format: other

Kenan Thompson showed up in some Gucci glasses. Amy hangs with the 'SNL' star and talks about what he brought to his role as Toto, over-tapping T.C., and wearing a will.i.am wig while very hungover.

Host: Amy Poehler
Guests: Maya Rudolph and Kenan Thompson
Executive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-Berman
For Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel Lovell
For The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, and Aleya Zenieris; lighting director Caroline Jannace; audio producer Kaya McMullen; social producer Bridget Geerlings; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and bookers Kat Spillane and Paige Garbarini
Original Music: Amy Miles

This episode is brought to you by Uber Eats. Stock up on glue sticks, pens, and other back-to-school essentials from your favorite brands for $5 or less on Uber Eats. Order now https://www.ubereats.com/

This episode is brought to you by Subaru. Love goes the extra mile in the Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid and Subaru Forester Hybrid. Visit https://subaru.com/hybrid to learn more.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From late night with Seth. Is your house just filled with mugs that you've gotten from various talk shows? Mine kind of is. I wonder if Johnny Carson and like Merv Griffin and Dinah Shore, if they ever had mugs? You know what I would give for one of those mugs? Right. You know what we were looking? This is going to, this is really ADHD and this is going to take us on a completely different tangent. It doesn't matter. You know what we were just looking up this morning? Bicentennial 31 flavors slash Baskin Robbins Bicentennial ice cream flavors. And do you know what some of them were? Wait, so just said that this is 1976 flavors? 1976. Okay. For the Bicentennial 31 flavors, aka now known as Baskin Robbins. Or is it the other way around? I think it's the other way around. Now it's, they don't, they have more than 31. Right. Yeah. Um, one of them was called Valley Fudge. Valley Fudge. What was another one Maya? Oh god, no, I got to look it up again. One pie was, one was apple pile of mode. Yeah, sure. That's cute. Cute. But like, give me value. Give me a fan word. Oh, thank you. Minute, man, mint. So stupid. You know, Gen X has lived, we live, we were alive. I was alive during the Bicentennial and here we are celebrating 250 years and boy has America never been better.

That's exactly how I feel. Yeah. It's true. I mean, when you think about how far we've come, well, how far we've come and how much we've fixed. That should be the, the, the, the slogan. We've fixed a lot. We're talking to Keenan Thompson today and I'm so psyched that I'm talking to you because you and Keenan are linked in a lot of ways for me. Like, I think some of my most fun and most tender and funniest moments are watching the two of you perform. Like, you guys really have a connection. How would you explain it? You know, when you meet your people and you can't really, you can't really find words for it. So you just feel like you've known the person your whole life. I always feel that when I see Keenan, I feel like he's always been there and we don't have to say anything. It's, and it's, there's a,

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