Abbott & Costello, Walter Matthau & Jack Lemmon, and Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor, are three of the biggest and funniest comedy duos of all time. However, for those of us from a different generation, Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell were the premier paring, Whether they dazzled on the all-time great sketch comedy show All That, their outrageous Kenan & Kel series, or the two Good Burger movies, Mitchell and Thompson were magic. But it all had to start somewhere, and CinemaBlend just learned about those origins.
I recently sat down with Kenan Thompson, the major Saturday Night Live mainstay, to talk about his part in the new Autotrader “Auto Intelligence” campaign. During our chat, I asked him about the characters he loved playing the most, but what I received instead was an insightful story about him and Kel Mitchell coming up with the “Mavis and Clavis” characters from All That. Interestingly enough, that was also the first time the pair ever got to work together:
