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Keegan-Michael Key
Keystyle
Actor information
Full name Keegan-Michael Key
Nickname(s) Key
Born March 27, 1971
YouTube Channel Comedy Central
Physical description
Hair None
Eyes Brown
Appearance information
Appeared in Gandhi vs Martin Luther King Jr.
Michael Jordan vs Muhammad Ali
As Gandhi
Michael Jordan


Keegan-Michael Key is an actor and comedian best known for his role in the Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele alongside Jordan Peele. He also hosted the show The Planet's Funniest Animals for a short time. He appeared in Gandhi vs Martin Luther King Jr. and Michael Jordan vs Muhammad Ali, playing Gandhi and Michael Jordan, respectively. He stared as Vandaveon in a satirical review of Gandhi vs Martin Luther King Jr. posted onto Comedy Central's YouTube channel as part of Key and Peele's Vandaveon and Mike series.

Appearances

Season 2

Season 3

Gallery

Trivia

  • Key revealed both battles that he was in ahead of time.
  • Both of his characters started the battle.
    • Gandhi is the only one that also ended it.
  • He is the second oldest guest to rap, after "Weird Al" Yankovic.
  • He and Peele both appeared in "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody White & Nerdy portraying gangsters.
  • He is the second/third non-YouTuber rapper, after Snoop Dogg and alongside Jordan Peele.
  • From 2005 to 2008 he was a moderator of The Planet's Funniest Animals show on Animal Planet.
  • He is the first non-YouTuber rapper to reappear, the second being Jordan Peele in the same battle.
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