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Keegan-Michael Key

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Keegan-Michael Key was born in Southfield, Michigan and raised in Detroit. He was adopted as a child by a black father and a white mother. In 1989, he graduated from Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, Michigan. Key attended the University of Detroit Mercy as an undergraduate and earned his Master of Fine Arts in Theater at Pennsylvania State University. While at The University of Detroit Mercy, he was a brother of Phi Kappa Theta.
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A biological paternal half-brother of comic book writer Dwayne McDuffie, a fact neither was aware of while McDuffie was alive.
His birth father, Leroy McDuffie, is black, and his birth mother, Carrie Herr, is caucasian, of half Polish and half Belgian Flemish descent. He was adopted as a child. His adoptive father, Michael Eugene Winfield Key, is also African-American. His adoptive mother, Patricia Walsh, is white.
He is a graduate of the University of Detroit - Mercy (undergraduate) and earned a Master of Fine Arts at the Pennsylvania State University School of Theatre.
Played "Luther", President Obama's Anger Translator, at the 2015 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
Along with Jordan Peele, one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].

Our show is not based on huge characters. There are characters in our show; whether or not they reoccur is based on the audience. Mad TV (1995) was a formula - our show doesn't have one,. We try to incorporate the shows. We're not trying to be cool here. We're trying to be funny. If you watch the beginning of certain shows, you notice that they're trying too hard to be hipsters and be cool. We're like, 'Why are you trying to be a badass?' We realize that we're nerds. Our goal in life is to get the laughs.
I was a special-needs child. It was like, 'Here's a kid with no arm. Here's a blind kid. Here is a biracial kid. Let's take the blind one.' So because I'm high yellow, I'm special needs, which means I would dominate at the Special Olympics.
In regard to our show(Key and Peele), some people ask me sometimes ''What is the greatest thing that can happen to your show?'' I said the greatest thing that can happen to my show, is that a kid watches something on whatever the equivalent of YouTube is 75 years from now and goes ''Why is this funny? I don't understand this.'' (Meaning that hopefully Americans will have solved the racism issues in the near future and thus kids won't understand the shows humor on racism issues.)

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