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Michael Jackson Halloween Costume

Key & Peele
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The setup

A Halloween party host's patience snaps when one guest will not stop doing his Michael Jackson act.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A host in a Dracula costume greets arrivals at his Halloween party with vampire puns until his friend Noah shows up in a red Thriller-style jacket and wig. Noah refuses to drop the act, cycling through squeals, kicks, crotch grabs, moonwalks and song fragments while the host tries to steer him inside and rules out each tic in turn. When the host finally blows up and points out that the costume became a cliché when the singer died years earlier, Noah is stunned to learn of the death and drifts off, still in character, leaving the host to say Happy Halloween to the next guests.

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Everybody and their mother was Michael Jackson three years ago when he died!

He died?

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The sketch gives its name to the episode "Michael Jackson Halloween" (season 2, episode 6), which aired on Halloween night 2012.

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