Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele
Jordan Haworth Peeleis an American actor, comedian, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for starring in the Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele and for his five seasons as a cast member on MADtv. In 2014, he also had a recurring role in the first season of the FX anthology series Fargo...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth21 February 1979
CountryUnited States of America
Jordan Peele quotes about
validation needs boundaries
We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this."
men african-american comedian
I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.
teenager people laughing
What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.
guy said mets
[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.
brother father way
[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.
thinking leader firsts
I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.
african-american legends kind
Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O.
kids names slave-owners
Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?
mom white guy
The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. I speak like my mom. I speak like the whitest white dude. I speak like a "Def Comedy Jam" comedian doing an impression of a white guy.
father mets wells
I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.
growing-up differences african-american
I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.
emotion good-things raised
I was raised that emotion was a good thing.
winning comedy stressful
It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
want comedy sketch-comedy
Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.