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The lights came up on Sunday night to a crowd at the Lied Center as comedians Kenan Thompson and Seth Meyers took the stage for an hour.
The two "Saturday Night Live" performers were on hand to kick off activities for Homecoming week.
Kenan Thompson warmed up the audience with a twenty-minute set during which he covered a retrospective of his career. Thompson, who hails from Atlanta, spoke about starting out performing on the children's sketch comedy series "All That" on Nickelodeon and in the "Mighty Ducks" movie.
"It's funny because everyone is grown-up now. Most of my fans who watched growing up are all now twenty-one or twenty-two," Thompson said during his set.
His Nickelodeon days afforded him recognition with a generation that is now college aged.
Thompson got the crowd laughing with an impersonation of Bill Cosby whom he worked with on the "Fat Albert" movie and whom he also sofofs on "Saturday Night Live".
He is on his third season with the show that he claims is "the only place where you can run into Mick Jagger walking down the hall."
Thompson said it was somewhat of a surreal experience getting on the plane to come perform at the Lied Center straight from his appearance on "Saturday Night Live" in New York this past week.
"We were just taping the show yesterday and now we are in Kansas today doing this show," Thompson said to the audience. "I am really happy to be at 'Saturday Night Live.' It's fun, you get to travel all over the country doing your set."
Fellow cast mate, and fifthseason veteran, Meyers, followed Thompson's set starting out with shout outs to all of the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior students in attendance. He got the crowd
into the Homecoming spirit by insulting Kansas' rival Missouri. He compared being in Missouri to being inside an "asshole."
Meyers, who attended Northwestern University, mentioned his connection to Kansas by way of the fake ID from Topeka that he used while he attended college.
He joked about alumni returning to campus during Homecoming and complaining about how easy college is now with the advent of e-mail, cell phones and text messaging.
Meyers mentioned the lack of cell phones as being a hindrance to "late night booty calls" when he was in college and groups of students shared answering machines.
"You guys are all in college and know about the late night booty call." Meyers said to the audience. "I've got a new late night booty call that's not actually a phone call, but it works, and it is eBay."
The comedians' visit to the Lied Center was the result of hours of planning and arranging
Saturday Night Live comedian Kenan Thompson performs his stand-up routine Saturday night in the Lied Center. Seth Meyers, also of Saturday Night Live, joined Thompson to kick off the University of Kansas' Homecoming week. on the part of the Homecoming sophomore硅 acid.
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The committee wanted to bring the comedians to campus to get the KU community excited about Homecoming.
Homecoming Special Events Chairwoman Amber Hall, Texas senior, and Chairman Dustin Curzon, Broken Arrow, Okla.,
The committee threw around different ideas for performers and finally decided to contact the William Morris Agency to book both Meyers and Thompson.
sophomore, said Meyers and Thompson were chosen because of their recognition within a wide audience and their prominence on the thirty-year old Saturday Night Live show.
"They are really well-known and they cater to a very wide audience." Hall said. "Everyone has been tuning into 'Saturday Night Live' since they were kids. We wanted everyone to get involved in Homecoming as well, not just KU students."
were also chosen to bolster the University's prominence among competing universities.
Curzon said the performers
"I think it is important to bring in performers like this to KU because it is good to show that we as a community can do big events such as this like any other school," Curzon said. "KU has a reputation of having a great Homecoming and this is one way to boost that reputation on a national level. This is a great way to kick off Homecoming, it is always fun to start with something big."
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