April 28--Before he starred in the action comedy "Keanu" and on the sketch show "Key and Peele," Keegan-Michael Key was a Second City performer who showed off his improv skills in a 2003 episode of "Live with Regis and Kelly."
Key revisited that performance during Thursday's episode of "Live with Kelly and Michael." Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa filmed two episodes of their talk show at Ravinia in Highland Park in October 2003. One of the shows included the melon skit Key performed with his Second City troupe.
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"I 100 percent remember that. There's no way I could forget that," said Key, who spent four years at Second City e.t.c. and also performed with the theater company in Detroit.
"I just remember seeing you and thinking how beautiful you were," Key, 45, told Ripa. "In the first moment that we were on that stage, I held it together pretty good."
Key pointed out that Liz Cackowski, who has written episodes of "The Last Man on Earth" and "Community," was also part of the sketch.
"We had so much fun. That was the first kind of big piece of national exposure that we had ever had," Key said.
"Keanu," Key's movie with Second City alumnus Jordan Peele, hits theaters Friday.
"Live with Kelly and Michael" airs 9 a.m. weekdays on WLS-Ch. 7.
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