One of Key & Peele’s most well-known routines, “Substitute Teacher,” features a list of all the names Mr. Garvey pronounces incorrectly. Comedy Central’s Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele would go on to host their own, self-titled show after becoming friends while working together on the sketch comedy Mad TV. The subjects covered by Key & Peele would range from pop culture parodies to discussions of racism or politics.
When it comes to genuinely amusing sketches, comic sketch programmes sometimes have a hit-or-miss consistency, but Key And Peele had a significantly greater success rate. Sketches like “Continental Breakfast,” “East/West College Bowl,” “Obama Meet And Greet,” and countless more became popular and continue to receive a lot of views on YouTube. The comedy series Key and Peele would eventually run for five seasons, and while the cast members reunited for the 2016 film Keanu, they afterwards went their separate ways. Key has hosted a number of programmes and appeared in films like The Predator, whilst Peele has established himself as a master of the horror genre by helming films like Get Out or developing Candyman 2021.
Key & Peele’s “Substitute Teacher” consistently ranks at the top or very close to the top of any ranking of their best skits. Keegan-Michael Key plays Mr. Garvey, an energetic teacher who has spent years working in inner cities schools, and is called in to fill in for a class of white pupils. This is the basic idea of the comedy. He pronounces his students’ names incorrectly at roll call, and when they correct him, he gets progressively enraged since he believes they are merely trying to undermine his authority. Here is a list of every mispronounced name in “Substitute Teacher” by Key & Peele.
Mispronounced names in Key And Peele’s “Substitute Teacher” have accumulated over 200 million views on YouTube since 2012, and as a result, Mr. Garvey has become a rare recurrent character on the show. Key asserted in a conversation with EW that the attraction of the sketch was in part due to the “Ownership of your existence is associated with your name, and if you’ve ever heard your name mispronounced, you can feel it. That’s my unverified, unscientific theory for why it still makes me happy.”
He also said that the dialogue in this iconic Key And Peele sketch was improvised, and that the breakaway clipboard Mr. Garvey uses was designed so he could time when to split it in half. Key and Peele’s “Substitute Teacher” even for a moment sparked discussions about a standalone Mr. Garvey film, which (unfortunately) never materialised. It took a straightforward, brilliant concept and explored it from every perspective, much like many of Key & Peele’s best sketches.
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