Playgoer Interrupts Keegan-Michael Key's Hamlet Play Trying to Charge Her Phone

-You always dreamt of being on Broadway.
-I did! -I mean, a real theater actor.
-Yeah, yeah. I went to school for acting
and I thought, you know, this is something
that my parents were kind enough to let me do.
-Where did you go to school? -I went to --
The University of Detroit Mercy is where I did my undergrad.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-They're being nice. -They're being nice.
-Yeah yeah yeah. [ Laughter ]
-They've never heard of that school.
-He just made that school up. [ Laughter ]
-No, it is a real school. -It's a real school.
It's a real school. -It's a great school, yeah.
-It's a real school, yes.
-But this audience has no idea what that school is.
No, they've never heard of it. They're like,
"Oh, Detroit Mercy?" -There's schools in Detroit?
There are schools in Detroit, folks, yes.
[ Laughter ]
Trust me.
-It's the most polite audience ever, they are.
-And then, I got a master's degree at Penn State.
Penn State University, yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Now... -Now, that's true, yeah.
-Yeah! Yeah, yeah yeah!
[ Cheering indistinctly ]
[ Laughter ]
"And that's a school we know, man!"
Absolutely! [ Laughter ]
-"At least 50 of us went to that school!"
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, so I always wanted...
I always wanted to be a serious, dramatic actor.
That was my plan. And then, I ended up taking
this 19-year detour into sketch comedy.
-And boy, what a great job you did.
-It worked out okay. It worked out all right.
-Absolutely, "Key and Peele." -It worked out.
-Oh, the best! -And so, yeah.
That was my dream.
And then now, to be able to do "Hamlet" and to play
Horatio, the character I'm playing,
which is a character I've wanted to play.
It's a very specific thing to want to do,
is to be in theater and play Horatio.
And I'm like, "Did the devil roofie me and then...
[ Laughter ] ...and then I sold my soul
to the devil?" Like, how did I get all of --
How did my dream come -- Like, my real dream came true.
-I mean, it's fantastic. And this is...
[ Cheers and applause ]
And also, I want to say -- It was just announced.
Last time you were on the show, we didn't mention it.
But it was just announced that you're going to be
on Broadway... -Yes.
...in the new Steve Martin play. -A new Steve Martin play
called "Meteor Shower," yeah. -"Meteor Shower."
-"Meteor Shower," yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Steve Martin! -Steve Martin, Steve Martin.
-And Amy Schumer is as well? -It's me and Amy Schumer.
It's our Broadway debut. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Are you kidding me? -Yep, yep.
-How fun is that going to be? -It's going to be amazing.
Amy, you know, of course, is fantastic.
The amazing Laura Benanti's in it.
Alan Tudyk is in it.
And it's just a four-hander.
It's going to be really fantastic.
It's like these are dreams that you kind of think,
"Oh, I'm never gonna." "Well, I'll live a life.
I'll be okay. I'll be happy." And then this happens.
And I had no idea it was going to happen this soon.
-The director's fantastic, too. -Jerry Zaks.
-Jerry Zaks, who did "Hello Dolly."
-Yeah yeah yeah. -I mean, come on.
This is amazing. -It's crazy.
-That's going to be great. I will be there, I'll be there.
"Hamlet," it's kind of an intimate setting on this.
It's smaller, like an intimate theater setting.
You're right in the mix. If you go see this,
you're right there. -Yeah, yeah.
There's only a little over 250 seats in the theater
and we're dressed in very regular kind of person garb.
It's very kind of stripped-down, very real.
There's no pumpkin pants and hose and all this kind of stuff.
-Yeah, I love that. -And there's a point in the play
where Oscar, who's playing Hamlet, has to sit down
in a seat next to an audience member.
He moves an audience member out of the way
and sits in their seat.
And there was a little old lady in the front row one day
who was really enjoying herself, and letting us know.
And at one point in time,
Oscar's sitting right next to her, and she just leans over
and she goes, "Are they gonna carry you out?"
[ Laughter ]
And he's like, "We're in the play, ma'am.
We're in the play."
And she's like, "Oh, there's the skull!
That's Yorick. That's the fool." [ Laughter ]
And she was like straight-up Howard Cosell,
just doing the play by play on the whole play.
It was fantastic, yeah. -Well, didn't some lady...
-Oh! Yeah. A woman got up
during the intermission, walked up on the stage,
and plugged her phone in to charge it, so.
[ Laughter ]
-New York City, baby!
[ Band plays ] [ Cheers and applause ]
-So then, they said to the lady, "Ma'am, you cannot
plug your phone in and charge it on the stage."
So she went, "Oh, I'm sorry."
So, she gets up and walks over to every member in the front row
and goes, "Is there an outlet under your chair?"
[ Laughter ]
-"Sir, is there an outlet under your chair?"
I'm like, "Who are you? Are you James Bond?
-Yeah, she needs to charge... -Who do you need to call?
Who do you need to call?"
-I'm so happy for you on both things.
I can't wait to -- Hey, go check out "Hamlet"
and go check him on Broadway in "Meteor Shower" too.
Keegan Michael Key!

Playgoer Interrupts Keegan-Michael Key's Hamlet Play Trying to Charge Her Phone

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