Key and his comedy partner Jordan Peele starred in an episode of Epic Rap Battles of History, with Key playing Mahatma Gandhi and Peele playing Martin Luther King Jr.
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Key and his former Mad TV castmate Jordan Peele starred in their own Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele, which began airing on Januand ran for five seasons until September 9, 2015. Key has portrayed and rapped as Indian civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi (left) and American basketball player Michael Jordan (right) for Epic Rap Battles of History. He also played female celebrities, including Phylicia Rashād, Robin Antin, and Eva Longoria (as Gabrielle Solis on a Desperate Housewives parody).
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He interrupts live news broadcasts by a reporter (always played by Ike Barinholtz), annoying him with rapid-fire accounts of events that have happened frequently exclaiming "It was crazy as hell!" Celebrities that Key impersonated on the show include Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, Roscoe Orman (as his character Gordon from Sesame Street), Matthew Lillard, Bill Cosby, Al Roker, Terrell Owens, Tyler Perry, Keith Richards, Eddie Murphy (as his character James "Thunder" Early from the movie Dreamgirls), Sherman Hemsley (as his character George Jefferson on The Jeffersons), Charles Barkley, Sendhil Ramamurthy (as Mohinder Suresh), Tyson Beckford, Seal (originally played by Peele until Peele left the show at the end of season 13), Sidney Poitier, Lionel Richie, Barack Obama, Kobe Bryant and Jack Haley (as the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz). There is also "Jovan Muskatelle", a shirtless man with a jheri curl and a shower cap. He often goes "backstage" as Eugene Struthers, an ecstatic water-or-flower delivery man who accosts celebrities. Key also portrayed various guests on Real **********ing Talk like the strong African Rollo Johnson and blind victim Stevie Wonder Washington. Funkenstein" in blaxploitation parodies, with Peele playing the monster. During seasons 9 and 10, Key appeared as "Dr. On the penultimate episode of Mad TV, Hines revealed that he is the long-lost heir to the Heinz Ketchup company and only became a Catholic school coach to help delinquent teenagers like Yamanashi ( Bobby Lee). One of his most famous characters is "Coach Hines", a high school sports coach who frequently disrupts and threatens students and faculty members.
He and Jordan Peele were cast against each other, but both ended up being picked after demonstrating great comedic chemistry. In 2004, Key joined the cast of Mad TV midway into the ninth season.
While at the University of Detroit Mercy, he was a brother of Phi Kappa Theta. Raised Catholic, Key attended the University of Detroit Mercy as an undergraduate, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theater in 1993, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in theater at Pennsylvania State University in 1996. Key discovered the existence of his half-siblings only after they had both died. Through his biological father, Key had two half-brothers, one of whom was comic book writer Dwayne McDuffie (1962–2011). Like his birth parents, his adoptive parents were also a black man and a white woman. He was adopted at a young age by a couple from Detroit, Michael Key and Patricia Walsh, who were both social workers. Key was born in Southfield, Michigan on March 22, 1971, the son of African American father Leroy McDuffie, and Carrie Herr, a Caucasian of Polish and Belgian Flemish descent. Keegan appeared in the musical film The Prom (2020) directed by Ryan Murphy on Netflix, and the musical comedy series Schmigadoon! (2021) on Apple TV+. In 2017, Key made his Broadway debut in Steve Martin's comic play Meteor Shower. Key and Peele produced and starred in the 2016 action-comedy film Keanu. Also in 2015, he appeared at the White House Correspondents' Dinner as the Key & Peele character Luther, President Barack Obama's anger translator. He has provided voice-work for The Lego Movie (2014), the subsequent films of the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2015-present), Storks, The Angry Birds Movie (both 2016), The Star (2017), The Lion King remake and Toy Story 4 (both 2019). Key has had supporting roles in several films, including Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), Don't Think Twice (2016) and Dolemite Is My Name (2019). version of The Planet's Funniest Animals on Animal Planet (2005-2008), and has hosted Game On! on CBS since 2020.
He also appeared alongside Peele in the first season of the FX series Fargo in 2014, and had a recurring role on Parks and Recreation from 2013 to 2015. version of Whose Line is it Anyway? on The CW. He spent six seasons as a cast member on Mad TV (2004–2009) and has made guest appearances on the U.S. He co-created and co-starred alongside Jordan Peele in Comedy Central's sketch series Key & Peele (2012–2015) and co-starred in USA Network's Playing House (2014–2017). Keegan-Michael Key (born March 22, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, producer and writer.
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