Keegan-Michael Key | |
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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.
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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.