Yes, Kenan has seen Quiet On Set: "Investigate more!"
"It’s supposed to be a safe place for kids," said Thompson, whose career started at Nickelodeon on the Dan Schneider-produced All That
To the best of our knowledge, no living human being has spent a greater percentage of their life on the cast of a TV sketch comedy show than Kenan Thompson. (Who, at 45 years old, has spent 26 of those years on the roster of one such series or another.) Most of that is Thompson’s legendary tenure on Saturday Night Live, of course, but it also stretches back to the many years he spent on Nickelodeon, most prominently on shows executive produced by Dan Schneider—one of the key subjects of Investigation Discovery’s Quiet On Set. Now, Thompson has made his first public comments about the series, ending with a call to “Investigate more!” in response to Nickelodeon’s claims to investigate all allegations of abusive behavior on its sets.
Thompson addressed the series during a recent appearance on Tamron Hall’s talk show, where Hall asked him about the series, and his experiences with Schneider. Here’s Thompson’s response:
It’s tough. It’s a tough subject, you know? It’s tough for me because I can’t really speak on things that I never witnessed, you know what I’m saying? Because all these things happened after I left, basically. Dan wasn’t really on Kenan & Kel like that. I mean, he got a ‘created by’ credit, but it was a different showrunner, so our worlds wasn’t really overly overlapping like that outside of All That, necessarily. And then all of that negativity kinda started happening outside of our tenure there. So I wasn’t really aware of a lot of it.
My heart goes out to anybody that’s been victimized, or their families. I think it’s a good thing that the doc is out and it’s putting things on display, stories that need to be told for accountability’s sake. But it’s definitely tough to watch because I have fond memories of that place and I have fond memories of my co-stars and stuff like that. So to hear that they’ve gone through terrible things like that is really tough… Investigate more. It’s supposed to be a safe place for kids. And to hear all about that is just like, ‘How dare you?’