Kenan Thompson plays the passionate preacher

Saturday Night Live showed how quickly they could react to current events last night by including a parody of Michael Curry, the Chicago bishop who stole the show at the Royal Wedding.

Kenan Thompson played the ebullient preacher during the Weekend Update section, fronted by Michael Che.

He said that inside St George’s Chapel: ’I preached and I testified and I yelled while 500 stuffy English people looked at me like I was a fart in an elevator.’

And joking about the powerful sermon overrunning, he said: ‘They told me I had five minutes but the good Lord multiplied it to 60’.

Here’s the skit:

Published: 20 May 2018