--- title: Jordan Peele Addresses Key and Peele Obama Meet & Greet Meme description: Jordan Peele has feelings about the meme making the rounds on the Internet that uses an old Key & Peele skit about Obama to make its point. canonical: https://time.com/5414264/jordan-peele-key-and-peele-obama-meet-and-greet-meme/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-03T21:03:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:14.215Z og:title: People Are Using a Key and Peele Meme to Express Their Favorite Things og:description: Here's what Jordan Peele had to say og:url: https://time.com/5414264/jordan-peele-key-and-peele-obama-meet-and-greet-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfac71cf7fe0e187f/69893bbb22fb850583e26cf0/key-peele-obama-meet-and-greet-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 49th NAACP Image Awards - After Party og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Are Using a Key and Peele Meme to Express Their Favorite Things twitter:description: Here's what Jordan Peele had to say twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfac71cf7fe0e187f/69893bbb22fb850583e26cf0/key-peele-obama-meet-and-greet-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Keep Using the _Key and Peele_ Meme to Share Their Favorite Things > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 3, 2018 9:03 PM UTC  PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 15: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele attend 49th NAACP Image Awards After Party at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on January 15, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for NAACP) PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 15: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele attend 49th NAACP Image Awards After Party at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on January 15, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for NAACP) Paras Griffin—Getty Images for NAACP  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 3, 2018 9:03 PM UTC [Jordan Peele](http://time.com/5159850/jordan-peele-get-out-fears-and-cultural-hope/) took to his Twitter over the weekend to sound off on the Internet’s latest meme, which riffs on an old [Key & Peele skit](http://time.com/22993/key-and-peele-make-fun-of-everything/) from 2014 that stars him as [then-President Barack Obama.](http://time.com/3835819/white-house-correspondents-dinner-obama-key-peele/) In the original skit satirizing code-switching, the _Get Out_ director and screenwriter portrays Obama while he’s at an event to meet and greet, where he shakes the hands of audience members: white attendees get a polite and cordial handshake, while black attendees get affectionate hugs and backslaps. Four years later, however, the Internet has found a way to use the skit to describe their relationships to their favorite things: from the Marvel cinematic universe to NBA players. Twitter user Matte Black appears to have kicked off the meme by using the ski in a [tweet](https://twitter.com/matte%5FbIack/status/1043555936399282176?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1043555936399282176&ref%5Furl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.complex.com%2Fpop-culture%2F2018%2F09%2Fold-key-and-peele-skit-resurfaced-and-became-meme%2F) to talk about the Marvel movies that they would give a warm embrace to and those that would merely merit a polite handshake and head nod. Peele weighed in on the meme himself when a tweet surfaced that used the skit to talk about the challenges of self-care and mental health. > [](https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/1046230963707998214) Watch the original clip and see the best “Obama Meet & Greet” memes below. > [](https://twitter.com/thedotwav/status/1045405591567360004) > [](https://twitter.com/CoreyECohen/status/1046117678769934336) > [](https://twitter.com/GhostIsHost/status/1046571261084741632) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5414264/jordan-peele-key-and-peele-obama-meet-and-greet-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5414264/jordan-peele-key-and-peele-obama-meet-and-greet-meme/"},"headline":"People Keep Using the Key and Peele Meme to Share Their Favorite Things","datePublished":"2018-10-03T21:03:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:14.215Z","description":"Here's what he had to say","url":"https://time.com/5414264/jordan-peele-key-and-peele-obama-meet-and-greet-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfac71cf7fe0e187f/69893bbb22fb850583e26cf0/key-peele-obama-meet-and-greet-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfac71cf7fe0e187f/69893bbb22fb850583e26cf0/key-peele-obama-meet-and-greet-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"49th NAACP Image Awards - After Party","caption":"49th NAACP Image Awards - After Party","creditText":"Paras Griffin—Getty Images for NAACP","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5414264/jordan-peele-key-and-peele-obama-meet-and-greet-meme/","name":"People Keep Using the Key and Peele Meme to Share Their Favorite Things"}}]}] ```