Kenan Thompson urges Nickelodeon to ‘investigate more’ after shocking ‘Quiet on Set’ doc allegations

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documentary “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.”The five-part eye-opening doc focuses on Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider and features a behind-the-scenes look at his inappropriate behavior with child stars such as Alexa Nikolas, Drake Bell and more in the late ’90s and early 2000s.The “Saturday Night Live” comedian, 45, who starred on the network’s “All That” and “Kenan & Kel,” opened up about the allegations and Schneider, 45, on the Tamron Hall Show.“It’s tough.

It’s a tough subject, you know?” Thompson said on Wednesday. “It’s tough for me because I can’t really speak on things that I never witnessed, you know what I’m saying?

Because all these things happened after I left, basically.”He continued: “Dan wasn’t really on ‘Kenan & Kel’ like that.”“I mean, he got a ‘created by’ credit, but it was a different showrunner, so our worlds wasn’t really overly overlapping like that outside of ‘All That,’ necessarily.

And then all of that negativity kinda started happening outside of our tenure there, you know what I mean? So I wasn’t really aware of a lot of it.”Schneider was a screenwriter for several “Kenan & Ken” episodes, also producing the kids sketch comedy series “All That.”The Schneider’s Bakery founder also wrote Thompson’s film “Good Burger,” which was released in 1997.The “Fat Albert” actor then sent a message to his Nickelodeon peers who opened about the hostile work environment they felt Schneider created while working for the network. “My heart goes out to anybody that’s been victimized, or their families,” he said on the talk show. “I think it’s a good thing that the doc is out and it’s putting things on display, stories that need to be told for accountability’s sake,” he continued.