Keegan-Michael Key Wins An Emmy
September 19, 2016 at 3:02 pm Bill DiFilippo 1 comment
Keegan-Michael Key ’96g took home a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for Key & Peele on Monday night. Key & Peele, which celebrated its final season in 2015, won over shows like Saturday Night Live and Portlandia, among others. Key accepted the award alongside co-star Jordan Peele.
This marks the first Emmy win for Key, whose show was nominated each of the last three years. Key & Peele won a Peabody Award in 2014.
Asked about the win, Key explained that he was so excited that he has “no sense” of what he or Peele said while accepting the award.
Bill DiFilippo, online editor
Entry filed under: Alumni. Tags: 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards, Keegan-Michael Key, Key & Peele.
1. Anonymous | September 19, 2016 at 3:55 pm
Two Penn State alumni were up for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series — Key and Ty Burrell from “Modern Family” — but it went to Louie Anderson.