When I Was Your Age
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
“Kenan is a master storyteller with extraordinary stories to tell. I wouldn’t miss this for the world.”—Leslie Jones
When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson
Kenan Thompson is Saturday Night Live’s longest-ever-serving cast member and a star of such pioneering sketches as “Black Jeopardy” and is hugely beloved thanks to a tidal wave of nostalgic fans who grew up on early 2000s classics All That, Good Burger, and Kenan & Kel on Nickelodeon.
He’s also a dad (to two girls) in his mid-40s living in suburbia, and whose universal, relatable, family-friendly humor has created unbelievable appeal and engagement from fans from middle America to coastal elites. Becoming a dad sucked the cool right out of him -- and he's OK with that!
When I Was Your Age is packed with hilarious yet poignant essays that are aimed to offer any reader valuable advice on parenting, focusing on positivity, and having fun in life. Kids, new parents, fellow fathers, budding comics, and aunties who want to pinch his cheeks, can all learn from his biggest mistakes and most triumphant victories. There’s something for everybody here!
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Kenan Thompson has been making people laugh for three decades and counting. In this funny and revealing memoir, the actor talks about his life both on and off camera. Between his big break as a teenager on the ’90s Nickelodeon sketch show All That to his record-breaking, 20-years-and-counting tenure on Saturday Night Live, Kenan has racked up countless stories. He’s bounced back from career slumps and bankruptcy, rubbed elbows with showbiz elites, done more than a little partying with his SNL castmates, and even learned to take care of himself and become a responsible parent. Through it all, he’s stayed sincere and down to earth and very, very funny—and listening to him read the audiobook is a treat. This is a seriously charming listen.
