The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.
Keegan-Michael KeyLike every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information about [ biological mother]. So you have to build a mythos around yourself. And so my mythos included me not being wanted or me being a wretched person, which is just great fertilizer for comedy.
Keegan-Michael KeyWe've caught people watching us, and I'll look at them and I'll go, "It's just us. It's just our thing. It's just what we do."
Keegan-Michael KeyI have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person. Much to the chagrin of a lot of African-American people that I meet, because it's almost like there's a betrayal, an intrinsic betrayal: "Don't do that, brotha, we need you. We need you here, in this fold."
Keegan-Michael Key