Substitute Teacher - Key & Peele

Comedy Central · 233.4M views · 2012-10-18 · 3:02

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Overview

A Key & Peele sketch in which an inner-city substitute teacher, Mr. Garvey, keeps mangling the names of his middle-class students during attendance.

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HN commenters mention it as a joke in threads about names being mispronounced or causing problems.

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Stand-up & sketch comedy

What people said

DonHopkins · 2024-02 · Joke / meme
Does anyone find themselves accidentally mispronouncing Jason like "JSON"? It must be as annoying as mispronouncing Aaron like "A-A-Ron". [VIDEO]
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no_wizard · 2022-12 · Joke / meme
I agree with you 100%. For all of humanities fallibleness, every averted nuclear close call was due to having a human in the loop[0] in one way or another. For instance, in 1960 Norway's sunrise was interpreted by radar in Greenland as a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. Thankfully there were no automated responses, and humans in the loop realized the error quite quickly once they assessed all the surrounding facts [0]: [LINK] [1]: I couldn't help but think of this skit and pronunciation when seeing O'Shaughnessy from Key & Peel (video is linked to the pronunciation but its worth watching in its entirety if you like this kind of humor) [VIDEO]
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gota · 2019-11 · Joke / meme
> I've been more flexible, going by "A Aaron" I'm sorry, but if I found that name IRL I'd have a hard time not laughing. Have you seen the Substitute Teacher sketch by Key and Peele? [VIDEO]
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