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Is This Guy Jordan's Real Father?
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Jordan knocks on a trailer-home door and introduces himself to Earl Peele as his long-lost son. Earl sits him down and flatly denies it, brushing off the evidence: the two share an identical habit of rubbing the backs of their necks when uneasy, and Jordan's baby photo shows a younger man with a full afro rather than Earl's gray hair. Apologizing, Jordan mentions that he now produces and stars in his own television show, and Earl abruptly reverses course, treating every shared mannerism as proof of their bond and smothering his newfound son with affection. When Jordan points out how conveniently the change came, and adds that the show is on Comedy Central, Earl's enthusiasm vanishes and he throws him out.
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Highly quotable.
I mean, he handsome as hell, but I ain't nobody's daddy.
It's got to be in your DNAs.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Peter Atencio
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Jordan Peele was raised by his mother and did not know his own father, a background that a Cheat Sheet article connects to this sketch.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:12
Jordan
Um, hi, uh, are you Earl Peel?
- 00:16
Earl Peele
Who the hell want to know?
- 00:20
Jordan
I think I'm your son, Jordan Peel.
- 00:23
Earl Peele ?
Oh, okay, I see.
- 00:26
Earl Peele
Come on in here for a minute. Close the door on the way in. All right. All right, man. Go in. All right, man, go ahead and have a seat there. I'm gonna explain something to you. Okay. I had your dad. All right, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but that's the situation, brother.
- 00:51
Jordan
Are you... you see what's happening? We're doing the same thing. I-I always do this. I always scratch the back of my neck like this whenever I'm in an uncomfortable situation.
- 01:03
Earl Peele
Scratch my neck, man? Everybody scratch their neck. I breathe in and out, too, man. Now everybody my kid?
- 01:10
Jordan
Okay, look at this. That's a picture of me when I was a baby. That's my father.
- 01:17
Earl Peele
That ain't me. Man, look, look. Look, man, look at that dude's afro. Look, I got this going on, man. My hair is gray, he got black hair. I mean, he handsome as hell, but I ain't nobody's daddy.
- 01:29
Jordan
I'm I'm sorry. sorry. I've just been looking for him everywhere.
- 01:39
Earl Peele ?
Yeah, yeah. I'm sure you have.
- 01:41
Jordan
It's just I got my own TV show now. I I don't don't know. I just, I know that wherever he is, he would be proud.
- 01:55
Earl Peele
You got your own TV show, huh?
- 01:57
Jordan
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm producing and acting.
- 02:00
Earl Peele
Oh, you producing and acting, right. OK, yeah, that's my boy. Look at that, man, we're doing the same thing. What is that? Holy . That's jeans right there, man, because you can't do that unless you're sharing mad jeans with somebody, it's got to be in your DNAs. You my son. You my son, my baby boy.
- 02:24
Jordan
Thanks for your time.
- 02:25
Earl Peele
You come back home, man, I miss you so much, little man.
- 02:27
Jordan ?
Stop, get off, get off. Come on, get off, get off. Whoa, hey, hold on.
- 02:34
Jordan
My When I first came to your door, you wouldn't even acknowledge.
- 02:51
Earl Peele ?
Okay, okay. Okay, okay.
- 03:04
Jordan ?
You know what, when I first came in here, Come in here. Stop that!
- 03:09
Jordan
When I first came in here, you wouldn't even acknowledge that I could possibly be your son. But now, only after I tell you that I have my own show on Comedy Central, go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- 03:20
Earl Peele
Comedy Central? out of my house!
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