If you, like me, were a teen in the mid-aughts, "Can I Have Your Number" was the most important sketch in the history of comedy, let alone MadTV.
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It tells the harrowing tale of a man named Darrell trying to obtain the telephone number of an attractive young lady in a movie theatre.
It featured perfect gems of comedy writing like:
And:
Timeless.
And of course:
And lest we not forget:
The YouTube clip has 30 million hits and counting. It's a cultural institution, an Important piece of American art.
So it's pretty cool that Darrell (spelled like Darrell but pronounced da-RRELL) was played by Nicole Randall Johnson, who is clearly not a man:
This is some Daniel Day Lewis-level shit:
Unsurprisingly, Johnson is still killing it with sketch comedy. Here she is playing Michelle Obama's anger translator on Key & Peele:
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