Curiosidades

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.

Played "Luther", President Obama's Anger Translator, at the 2015 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.

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.

Along with Jordan Peele, one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].

He and comedy partner Jordan Peele made cameos as 'gangstas' in the music video for 'Weird Al' Yankovic's "White & Nerdy".

A longtime veteran of the Second City comedy troupe, first in his native Detroit and then in the venerated halls of Second City Chicago.

Both his biological and adoptive fathers are black, and both his biological and adoptive mothers are white.

He was awarded the 2003 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Revue for "Curious George Goes to War" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Co-founder of the Planet Ant Theatre in Hamtramck, Michigan, with Ryan Carlson, Margaret Exner, Joshua Funk, Nancy Hayden, and Mikey Brown.

Attended Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, MI.

Both he and partner Jordan Peele were dramatically featured in a series of comic-photo examples of fictional employees demonstrating "The Saintly Way to Succeed" in a cover story and lengthy article with that title in the March 31, 2013 issue of The New York Magazine.

He was nominated for a 2003 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Revue for "Pants on Fire" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

He was nominated for a 2004 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Musical for "The Second City's Romeo & Juliet Musical" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

He was awarded the 2002 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Revue for "Holy War, Batman! or the Yellow Cab of Courage" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Born on the same date as Will Yun Lee.