--- title: Key, Peele Parody SportsCenter with Teaching Center description: Key Peele sketch Teaching Center parodies SportsCenter on ESPN canonical: https://time.com/3975777/key-peele-teaching-center-espn-sportscenter-comedy-central/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-28T20:45:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:02.554Z og:title: Watch Key & Peele's SportsCenter Parody 'Teaching Center' og:description: Key Peele sketch Teaching Center parodies SportsCenter on ESPN og:url: https://time.com/3975777/key-peele-teaching-center-espn-sportscenter-comedy-central/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Key & Peele's SportsCenter Parody 'Teaching Center' twitter:description: Key Peele sketch Teaching Center parodies SportsCenter on ESPN twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Key & Peele Talk About Teachers in the Same Way SportsCenter Talks About Athletes ## Video: The Best of Stephen Colbert [Watch (HLS stream): The Best of Stephen Colbert](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PNJDP9f3.m3u8) (4:30)  _Published 2014-04-10. The next host of_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 28, 2015 8:45 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 28, 2015 8:45 PM UTC In a clip previewing Wednesday night’s episode of _Key & Peele,_ the Comedy Central duo discuss teachers as if they were professional athletes. They stage a fake draft at Radio City Music Hall and critique how and why teachers call on certain people in class. Although it’s all in good fun, the jokes about the salary differences between a teacher and a professional athlete is the most depressing part. Just imagine if a public school teacher could actually sign a contract guaranteeing a $80 million salary over the next six years with a $40 million in incentives based on test scores. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3975777/key-peele-teaching-center-espn-sportscenter-comedy-central/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3975777/key-peele-teaching-center-espn-sportscenter-comedy-central/"},"headline":"Watch Key & Peele Talk About Teachers in the Same Way SportsCenter Talks About Athletes","datePublished":"2015-07-28T20:45:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:03:02.554Z","description":"Both require training, after all","url":"https://time.com/3975777/key-peele-teaching-center-espn-sportscenter-comedy-central/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3975777/key-peele-teaching-center-espn-sportscenter-comedy-central/","name":"Watch Key & Peele Talk About Teachers in the Same Way SportsCenter Talks About Athletes"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Best of Stephen Colbert","description":"The next host of","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/PNJDP9f3/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-04-10T21:49:49.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PNJDP9f3.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3975777/key-peele-teaching-center-espn-sportscenter-comedy-central/","duration":"PT4M30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3975777/key-peele-teaching-center-espn-sportscenter-comedy-central/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```