Mattsletters: Mr. Keegan-Michael Key

6/20/2017

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key

Hamlet (Until Sep 3 2017)

c/o Anspacher Theater/Public Theater

425 Lafayette Street

New York, NY 10003

Dear Mr. Keegan-Michael Key,

My name is Matt Winick and I’m a huge fan of your comedy work. My favorite tv show that you played in are Key & Peele and recently in a movie called Keanu. In Key & Peele I like on how you and Mr. Jordan Peele do such a great job working together to make sketch comedy great. I enjoyed watching all the episodes from season 1-5. My favorite episodes of the show are Victory, Gangsta Standoff, Puppy Dog Ice-T, LA Vice, and Obama sketches. I liked about how you and Mr. Jordan Peele do such a great job on making comedy great on focusing on American popular culture, different stereotypes, race relations, and sometimes parodies on different subjects like movies or different things and thought the concept of explaining the different sketches to the audience members to help them understand the scenario. In April 2016, I saw Keanu in the movie theaters. I enjoyed the comedy movie about two friends Clarence and Rell who go on a journey and pretend to be gangstas to find Rell’s cat name Keanu after it goes missing. In Keanu, I was very happy on how you teamed up with Jordan Peele to make the movie great with excellent comedy and make Clarence along with Rell great main characters.

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble making friends and getting teased. Another thing that I struggle with autism is when people get judgmental about me being different or push me away from social groups. Your work in comedy including have a sense of humor and your work with Mr. Jordan Peele on friendships with being creative really inspires me to work hard on my disability, understand the need for friendships, and to develop an interest in comedy.

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key, you have inspired me to be a fan of comedy and to enjoy watching Key & Peele. I’m very proud on how you work hard to make comedy fun to enjoy with a sense of humor and working with Mr. Peele to make Key & Peele and other comedy teamup fun to enjoy. Also I’m proud to call Keanu one of my favorite movies because it had great comedy and you along with Peele did an excellent job. I hope there can be a sequel of Keanu or another movie with you and Mr. Peele teaming up again. Here is a picture of me and $5 as a gift to you to keep for inspiring me to be a fan of comedy and be a fan of your work and to work hard on dealing wit autism. I was wondering if you could please take the time to answer some of my questions. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making comedy great to watch, doing an excellent job teaming up with Peele to make comedy funny, and inspiring me. I wish you well in comedy and to continue teaming up with Peele to make more comedy great.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

1045 Olivia Avenue

Ann Arbor, MI 48104