Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell Scalped Super Bowl Tickets for Dinner at Chili's
Kenan Thompson talks about finally joining Instagram, what's happening with the Good Burger sequel and the time he and Kel Mitchell sold free Super Bowl tickets Nickelodeon gave them and spent the profit at Chili's Grill & Bar.
In regards to Good Burger 2, Kenan revealed to fans that "we need to" make a sequel to the beloved Nickelodeon movie!
From A.V. News:
On The Tonight Show, Kenan Thompson sends love to fellow Mighty Duck, Jussie Smollett
Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon spent the first minute or so of his interview with former SNL pal Kenan Thompson dispensing a backlog of congratulations. New babies, an Emmy (for the 90s R&B jam “Come Back Barack,” alongside Chance the Rapper and Chris Redd), a new animated movie, Wonder Park (he’s a beaver, alongside Ken Jeong), finally joining Instagram (two posts, 5,000 followers at air time), the Fallon-aided potential of a Good Burger 2 reunion with child star co-star Kel Mitchell (which might actually happen), and the recent reunion of the now-grown former teammates of the Mighty Ducks team/movie franchise.
“Speaking of,” interrupted Kenan, “We should send some love to Jussie Smollett,” referencing the violent, racist, gay-bashing attack that left the Empire star hospitalized on Tuesday. “’Cause he is a Mighty Duck,” said Thompson, reminding people of Smollett’s place in the kids movie hockey trilogy. Using Fallon’s “bigger platform” than Kenan’s 5,000 (now 16,000 by press time) Instagram followers to send out some love and support for the actor and LGBTQ rights activist, Kenan also urged people to send some love “to the universe, because this kind of madness needs to stop.” And, yes, to all you Ducks fanatics out there, while it is true that Smollett’s Mighty Ducks character Terry Hall never shared the ice with Kenan’s Mighty Ducks 2 and 3 character and knuckle-puck virtuoso Russ Tyler, you don’t fuck with a Duck. (As the movies’ tagline almost certainly was not.)
Circling back to a former co-star he most definitely did share many screens with, Kenan told Fallon how, as young Nickelodeon superstars, he and Mitchell were once gifted a pair of coveted Super Bowl tickets—not that they ever saw the game. Noting that he’s actually planning to attend this year’s game taking place in his home town of Atlanta, Thompson revealed that the cash-strapped young pair got dropped off at the gate in San Diego, found out the exorbitant prices people were willing to pay, got paid, and then “went to Chili’s and balled out.” So, if you were lucky enough to be at the San Diego Chili’s near the stadium on January 25, 1998, it was, as Kenan said, “chicken fingers for everyone.”
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Also, from People:
Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell Once Scalped Super Bowl Tickets for Dinner at Chili's
After being gifted a pair of free Super Bowl tickets, Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell decided to sell them for $2,500 a seat
Sometimes endless chicken fingers outweigh getting a chance to see football’s biggest game — especially when you didn’t pay for the tickets yourself.
Kenan Thompson is just getting around to attending his first Super Bowl game this year, but he was this close to attending a game many years ago.
“I got tickets to go one time when I was young,” the Saturday Night Live star, 40, said during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday.
The comedian went on to explain that when he was younger, he and his All That costar Kel Mitchell were given a pair of tickets to the Super Bowl from somebody that rhymes with “Schmickelodeon.”
“They sent us down in this limousine or whatever, but my debit card game and my money was funny so I didn’t have any money on me at the time,” Thompson explained, adding, “it didn’t make any sense for me to go to the Super Bowl with no money and not be able to buy anything.”
Fortunately for Thompson, there was a group of people selling tickets outside the stadium — and willing to pay $2,500 per seat.
At first, Thompson couldn’t believe what he had just heard.
“I was like, ‘What?’ ” he recalled, adding that his second thought was to turn to his pal and say, “Hey Kel, you wanna make some super bread right now?”
“We sold our tickets and went to Chili’s and balled out,” he revealed. “We went nuts. Chicken fingers for everyone.”
Mitchell and Thompson appeared on All That from about 1994-99. The duo went on to star in their own hit show, Kenan & Kel, from 1996-2000 and the 1997 comedy Good Burger.
Although Thompson and Mitchell, 40, have not regularly worked together in years, the pair had their own Good Burger reunion on The Tonight Show in 2016.
Speaking to PEOPLE about the pair’s enduring bond, Thompson previously shared that “there is time that has passed, but I don’t know if there is anything different with the way that we work with each other and the way that he makes me laugh.”
“It’s always just been the same,” he added. “As soon as I see him, it was like it could have been yesterday.”
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Also, from Page Six:
Kenan and Kel once feasted at Chili’s after selling Super Bowl tickets
If anyone knows how many Chili’s chicken fingers profits from Super Bowl tickets can buy, it’s Kenan Thompson.
Thompson — the 40-year-old “Saturday Night Live” star who found fame on kids sketch-comedy show “All That” and his own spin-off, “Kenan and Kel” alongside Kel Mitchell — told Jimmy Fallon in a “Tonight Show” interview on Wednesday night that when the two were treated to Super Bowl tickets, the day took a turn before kickoff.
“I got tickets to go one time, when I was young, these people gave me and Kel tickets to the Super Bowl,” he recalled, mentioning that he was gifted the tickets by “Smickelodeon,” jokingly disguising the real name of the kids’ network, Nickelodeon, that they starred on. “We were living in LA and [the game] was in San Diego, they sent us down in this limousine.”
But practical thinking got the best of the young star before heading into the stadium.
“My debit card game and my money was funny so I didn’t have any money on me at the time,” he explained. “I was just young and I didn’t know how to juggle my finances and it didn’t make any sense to me to go to the Super Bowl with no money and not be able to buy anything.”
So the two young stars entertained an offer for their two seats, selling them off for $2,500 — what Thompson referred to as “serious bread.”
“We sold our tickets and went to Chili’s and balled out,” he said. “We went to Chili’s and went nuts. Oh my gosh, chicken fingers for everybody.”
Thompson will be heading to this year’s big game where the New England Patriots will face the Los Angeles Rams in Atlanta, but this year, perhaps the Emmy winner will be buying his chicken fingers from a vendor inside the gates instead.
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