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Keegan-Michael Key revives beloved Key & Peele substitute teacher sketch for World Cup stars

Keegan-Michael Key revives beloved Key & Peele substitute teacher sketch for World Cup stars

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Keegan-Michael Key has resurrected his beloved Key & Peele substitute teacher character for the 2026 Fifa World Cup, delighting fans. While in attendance at Sunday’s match between Iran and Belgium in Los Angeles, the Emmy-winning comedian and former half of comedy duo Key & Peele, 55, partnered with Fifa to recreate the iconic 2012 Key & Peele “Substitute Teacher” skit. The original sketch, which became one of the Comedy Central series’s most popular, saw Key step into the role of inner-city substitute teacher Mr. Garvey, who struggles to pronounce his students’ names as he takes attendance. In the spoof clip shared on FIFAWorldCup’s TikTok account, Key reprised his role as Mr. Garvey. “I’m your substitute teacher today,” he announces, going on to call out French players Aurélien Tchouaméni, Kylian Mbappé, and Désiré Doué, Brazil’s Vinícius Júnior, Spain’s Lamine Yamal, Norway’s Erling …

Key and Peele Police Academy reboot was canceled due to tragic real-life incident, writer says

Key and Peele Police Academy reboot was canceled due to tragic real-life incident, writer says

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Comedian Ike Barinholtz has said that a planned reboot of the cult-comedy franchise Police Academy was shelved after the fatal 2014 shooting of Michael Brown rocked the nation. The Studio’s Emmy-nominated Barinholtz, along with his writing partner David Stassen, was originally hired to pen a screenplay for a revival of the 1980s crime comedy classic, which featured Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Michael Winslow and Bubba Smith as an oddball class of cadets. The project was expected to star and be produced by Key & Peele stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Speaking on a recent episode of his Funny You Ask podcast, Barinholtz, 49, recalled that their rewrite was expected to be “dirty, rated R, modern.” “I don’t even know if he’s still alive, we might have to cut this, but the guy who created the original Police Academy came with …

Indonesian Auteur Edwin Takes a Cue from Jordan Peele for Anti-Capitalist Horror-Comedy ‘Sleep No More’

Indonesian Auteur Edwin Takes a Cue from Jordan Peele for Anti-Capitalist Horror-Comedy ‘Sleep No More’

Published by Daniella Wilson

In the fluorescent glare of a rundown Indonesian wig factory, vats of human hair simmer in huge cauldrons, stirred by hunched laborers as rows of mannequin heads watch blankly from the dark.  Indonesian auteur Edwin has spent much of his career examining the quiet absurdities of modern life with a cool, deadpan detachment. But with Sleep No More, premiering in Berlin’s Special Midnight section this week, the director makes a headlong plunge into horror — infusing the genre with black comedy and a pointed critique of humanity’s slavish worship of capitalism. The film marks Edwin’s return to Berlin, where Postcards From the Zoo screened in competition in 2012 and later earned him the Edward Yang New Talent Award at the Asian Film Awards. For the new feature, he takes his cue from Jordan Peele, using the scary movie not just as spectacle but as a vehicle for uncomfortable social satire.  “I never worked with this genre before,” Edwin says. “So we thought, let’s have fun with it — but not by doing a horror based on …