Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

I've got another good one for you this week with actor Keegan Michael Key.

You probably know him best from the groundbreaking comedy show Key and Peel that he and his

buddy Jordan Peel did for several seasons over on Comedy Central that ended five years

ago.

Jordan Peel, the name sounds familiar, of course, has gone on to become an incredible

filmmaker with movies like Get Out and Us in the Horror genre.

Keegan Michael Key, the other half of Keegan Peel, extraordinarily funny, of course, he played

President Obama's anger translator Luther.

If you've seen that sketch, you know what that is.

He set out loud all the things that President Obama wished he could be saying while he was

President of the United States.

In fact, performed with President Obama one year at the White House Correspondent's dinner.

But Keegan goes back to theater background.

He grew up in Detroit and you'll hear him tell the story of kind of a troubled upbringing

getting pulled in literally by a teacher into a theater room onto a stage and say, hey,

this is a good outlet for you.

So came up as a theater kid effectively found his way to Second City in Chicago and then

gets on the Mad TV sketch comedy show and then to Key and Peel.

And now he's kind of returning after what he calls a 19 year detour into comedy back to

those theater roots.

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