Kel Mitchell dishes on ‘Good Burger 2’ with Jalen Rose
nypost.comKel Mitchell as a young teen, when he and his partner in crime, Kenan Thompson, were introduced to the public on Nickelodeon’s “All That.”The hit show was sketch comedy, a theme song by TLC and performances from top hip-hop artists.
And it was a dream for Kel, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago rapping and doing graffiti.“These are people that just a year ago I was just listening to on a CTA bus,” he told me on this week’s “Renaissance Man” of “All That’s” musical guests. “And now I’m chillin [with them].
And they were giving me advice. It definitely was like, ‘Yo, this is amazing right now.'” Of course, returning to his Chicago homestead after production was humbling.“I remember my parents, when I came back home, was like, ‘Take out the garbage.’ That’s why I love my family,” Kel told me.
They kept him grounded as his star was rising. He was raised by good stock. Both of his parents are now retired, but his mother was a teacher and his father was a psychologist.
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