“I try to be nice,” Kenan Thompson told us, “I like nice.” Whether he’s wearing his Steve Harvey getup on SNL or playing a widowed dad on his new sitcom Kenan, it’s easy to tell that Thompson is, well, a nice guy. He has an expressive yet restrained brilliance to him. He’s not a camera hog. Nor is he into showboating. In life, too, he’s thoughtful and exceptionally modest, despite having been famous for most of his formative years, starting as a teenager on the Nickelodeon show All That. When it comes to real-life fatherhood, Thompson takes his job very seriously. “It’s my daily focus —is everybody taken care of?” he says. “And then my other focus is, how am I taking care of everybody? That’s what probably drives me to work like such a maniac. I want to personally satisfy the need to provide like that.”