How Does Keegan-Michael Key Get So Much Work?

Charisma and a distinctive speaking voice and probably good representation.

He does seem to be everywhere you look on TV.

For realz, OP?

He's a good loooking light skinned Black man who sounds white and his comedic sensibility is that of educated coastal white Millennial liberals ("The teacher is so stupid he calls the kid "A-A-Ron!! I knew someone once who was that dumb!!")

He's the Black Friend they all fantasize about having.

He has the same acting technique and ability as Will Smith.

BBC, and he shares it liberally with TPTB, male and female.

OP's link doesn't work so I have no idea who's being discussed.

The Casting Couch.

What do you mean it doesn’t work, R6? You can’t see the pic?

I think he’s great…hilarious. Check out their stuff on YouTube

I hear he excretes on the toilet in some movie with Franco.

He's secretly married to Terry Crews.

I like him but the affirmative action boat is lifting many to higher levels than normal.

I know what you mean. At least Jordan Peele wrote and directed GET OUT and got an Oscar for the screenplay

[quote]I like him but the affirmative action boat is lifting many to higher levels than normal.

"Oh, hi! Don't forget to check me out in Dungeons and Dragons with Chris Pine!"

He is the son of that maid from Maude... Florida Keys... so that probably helped him in showbiz.

[Quote] At least Jordan Peele wrote and directed GET OUT and got an Oscar for the screenplay

The ultimate example of the affirmative action boat raising someone above the true level of their actual talent.

OK I just fell off my chair - [italic] he's straight! ??? !!!!![/italic]

He’s a straight man who loves musical theater (!) and always seems coked out. I always thought he was in the closet. Check him out on Colbert this week. Hyper much?

I assumed he was a gay

He's very one-note. Just gawping and wide-eyed. None of it interesting or funny.

[quote] I like him but the affirmative action boat is lifting many to higher levels than normal.

It’s certainly not affirmative action when white men higher and promote nothing but mediocre white men. It’s meritocracy.

[QUOTE] He's very one-note. Just gawping and wide-eyed. None of it interesting or funny.

Agreed.

He’s in “Shmigadoon” on Amazon +.

Sounds like fun.

[quote] I like him but the affirmative action boat is lifting many to higher levels than normal.

[quote] A lot of gays will be voting Republican in 2024. The left is off the rails. It has become overly devoted to over correcting wrongs done to —well, no one born in this century— and is allowing diversity to trump unity. Fake news racism has been replaced with real racism toward white people.

Life is so extraordinarily difficult for white men in the United States.

[QUOTE] He’s in “Shmigadoon” on Amazon +.

That’s Apple TV Plus, godfuckingdamnit.

Guess I'm in the minority. I think he's very talented and funny, much more than Jordan Peele ever was/is. Micheal should have a bigger career.

I like him. Terrific in "The Prom".

Is he Ben Kingsley's son?

Really, OP? I think he's extremely talented and exceptionally sexy.

More than that he has that "relatable" quality which seems to be like minting money. I am both infatuated with Keegan-Michael Key and jealous of his success. Sigh.

What was Michael-Keegan Key's key role? Which role shows him at his best?

He’s half white. Is mom or dad a Hollywood Hebrew?

He's funny and handsome. Love his substitute teacher skit. What's not to like?

I have nothing against him except to say that his turn on Saturday Night Live earlier this year was one of the worst I've ever seen from anyone

because he black

[quote]R21: It’s certainly not affirmative action when white men higher and promote nothing but mediocre white men.

Oh, Dear.

I want him in me, quite deeply.

I'll bet he never figured he'd be playing Meryl Streep's love interest.

Both his biological parents and his adoptive parents were a black male/white female combination.

He looks like a dark skinned Tyler Posey.

Handsome, likeable and funny.

[quote] I assumed he was a gay

I did, too. Is there proof he's not?

Two marriages to women (though both ended in divorce.)

Still, that's a fair amount of run for cover.

R42, he's still married to his second wife.

not for wong

"I like him but the affirmative action boat is lifting many to higher levels than normal."

So what explains the inexplicable "rise" of the Trump family? White privilege?

It was Yukon whorehouse money that got them started, R45.

I like him and his work. Jordan Peele on the other hand seems to have a chip on his shoulder the size of Spike Lee.

Jordan Peele is a competent B-movie screenwriter and director, but calling him the next Hitchcock is ridiculous.

Jordan Peele reminds me of the mean funny guy in high school.

I love Keegan-Michael Key. He's handsome in an offbeat way, and very charming and funny.

"KILLT!"

He's sexy, and also very intelligent.

Keegan Micheal Key is great at improve , too. If you've ever seen him on Reno 911, he is hilarious. All his scenes are him just making it all up on the spot.

As far as Jordan Peele, he just happened to be the only black man nominated at the right time at the Oscar's.

No way was the screenplay for Get Out better than LadyBird, The Shape Of Water or Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Well if KMK is not gay yet he would be when I got done with him! I would be all over his ass. His first wife must've gotten tired of beating bitches off him with a stick. He is like the epitome married DILF and he has big dick face.

Why are there so many men in Hollywood who are obsessed with Broadway musicals but who also insist they are straight?

Keegan-Michael Key

Lin-Manuel Miranda

John Mulaney

Seth MacFarlane

Hugh Jackman

Vin Diesel

he's black and every TV commercial and TV show has to have a black lead now or they are racists (see In the Heights)

Well there’s plenty more black men where he came from, R55. Why can’t it be a hot black man like Idris Elba?

Idris Elba never stops working either.

No, R56, he's too old now. And he's English; we're sick of English taking our jobs. They don't know our patois.

Idris Elba is two years younger than Keegan, R58.

[quote]Well there’s plenty more black men where he came from

r56 to your point all the work doesn't have to go to one token black man in Hollywood. They are both sexy

And you all also don't support other up and coming brothers like Ray Fisher and you wonder why KMK gets the jobs

If you haven't see his famous Key & Peele "Substitute Teacher" sketch,you really should see it.

R54 Umm, because they're actors. You can assume that they love the theater by nature of being a part of that cohort.

[QUOTE] If you haven't see his famous Key & Peele "Substitute Teacher" sketch,you really should see it.

I just watched it. Is it supposed to be funny?

[quote] I’ve never liked him in anything.

Fortunately, his career doesn't depend on you. You've probably never seen anything he's ever done. You just want to troll him because his father is black and his mother is white.

Troll thread.

Get Out was like a wayans brother watched The Stepford Wives, wrote a black satire of it that lazily matched it beat-4-beat, left out the humor, then won an original oscarfor it. So dumb. But only a discerning black person would get this. The rest still think OJ was innocent.

This one is more DL's speed

[quote] Fortunately, his career doesn't depend on you. You've probably never seen anything he's ever done. You just want to troll him because his father is black and his mother is white.

Yes, that's the only reason ever why anyone could possibly dislike him.

This one is more R66's speed.

[quote] And you all also don't support other up and coming [bold]brothers[/bold] like Ray Fisher

Welcome to Datalounge, Dr. Cornel West!

Fuck you, R64. We’re only allowed to shit on white people or something? I shit on Mark Wahlberg too in the subhead and they don’t get any whiter than that.

Just hit Ignore for r64, r70/OP.

He's just being a troll.

r54 Forgetting someone?

r62 = Deborra-Lee Furness

Keegan takes everything to a whole 'nother level.

[quote] Idris Elba is two years younger than Keegan, [R58].

But still looks older.

Jordan Peele is even more overrated. His films aren’t as good as he gets credit for.

To me Idris looks younger. He only looks older when he lets the gray grow in. But fine, that aside, you can’t tell me that Idris isn’t sexier.

[R25]: Cable Schmable, Mabel!

Just another channel I otherwise refuse to pay for…

He’s actually funny and doesn’t seem to take the whole “I’m black so I’m deserving of everything “ shit anywhere. He works and is good in the roles he plays. He is charming when interviewed. His name is the worst thing about him.

[quote]Why can’t it be a hot black man like Idris Elba?

LOL I Cant believe no one has posted this yet. SO ACCURATE

He was great on Key and Peele. But, yeah, he's generally pretty awful.

Loved him in Playing House.

Do you think Peele let him touch his Oscar?

I love him on Mad TV.

He was cute and sexy, but not aging well.

Congrats to R80 for posting one of those Key & Peele skits that’s actually kinda funny.

They have lots of funny stuff.

[quote]He is the son of that maid from Maude... Florida Keys... so that probably helped him in showbiz.

Of course, more DL bullshit, Keegan-Michael Key is biracial, as a baby he was adopted by a Black and white married couple. He is not the son of Maude/Good Times actress Esther Rolle.

He's married, his first wife, a vocal coach, was white and his current wife is also white. Think she's a producer.

He's very funny, it's obvious most here are not familiar with his hilarious work on MADTV and on the Comedy Central TV series Key & Peele.

Good as gay Tin Man on Madd TV

[quote]Just another channel I otherwise refuse to pay for…

Most streaming and cable TV series can be watched free on line.

A few days ago I watched the last two seasons of the Britbox cop series Unforgotten. It's been on PBS, but I always forget to watch it. The problem with PBS, they don't put all their series OnDemand. If you subscribe to Acorn, can you watch most of the PBS series at your convenience. If you miss both PBS airings of their various series, you basically miss a lot.

I think he's neat.

Also, sexy as fuck.

Because he’s talented, intelligent, and cute as a button?

Shows pepperoni nipples in episode 2 of Schmigadoon

I can hardly wait until this moment in history, when the extreme right and left are the loudest voices, is over. According to DL, he's both too white and too much a product of affirmative action for being black. Maybe he's just talented in the eyes of many people and not every single opinion is about race, one way or the other?

[quote]How Does Keegan-Michael Key Get So Much Work?

He has "pride."

I hate pride.

Is he one of the famous men who has been rimmed???

😍

He gets a lot of work because he's extremely talented. Multi-talented. Can do many different dialects, languages, can sing, dance, etc..

On the other hand, there are losers like Eric Roberts and Viveca Fox, who will do anything David Cock-teau puts 'em in, for pennies on the dollar.