James Corden had Keegan-Michael Key on Monday’s episode of “The Late Late Show,” and he roped the “Key and Peel,” “Schmigadoon!” and now “Reboot” star into one of his more fun recurring gags, “Improvised TED Talks.” The topic was “The life-changing power of vacuuming in the nude,” and since we can’t top that here, we’ll just get right to it.
So the gag, for those who don’t know, is Corden has one of his celebrity guests give a totally unrehearsed, unresearched TED Talk on a topic they don’t know about in advance. Comedy very often ensues, especially on Monday’s episode since Key is, you know, something of a well regarded improv comedian.
“You know, ladies and gentlemen, I find that, when I’m at home and I’m, uh, doing the house work, that my wife becomes very happy,” Key said as he kicked off his awkward lecture. “I have also found that when I have no clothing on in my home, my wife also is happy. So I’ve decided to combine those two things together and use them as a force multiplier. See, it’s not one plus one equals two. It’s one plus one equals more than two.”
Next, for some reason a Tom Hanks photo appeared in slide presentation, prompting Key to joke that when he discovers something scientific, he likes to discuss it with the Oscar winner. The jokes came pretty fast from there and honestly, we’d ruin it by trying to describe it all.
Next, Corden had his band leader, Reggie Watts step up to bat. His topic: “Ham: Y’all want some?”
Things progressed from there with a lot more fun jokes. You can watch the whole bit in the video above.
