If you spent any time doomscrolling last October, there’s a good chance you stumbled across some strangely wholesome TikTok videos from "art teacher Matt Taylor." The videos themselves are harmless enough, but exploded for one very specific reason: a huge chunk of the internet became convinced the teacher was actually the barely disguised Kevin James. What followed were months of denial, and even now, with his new romantic comedy movie Solo Mio a week away from its 2026 movie schedule release, he is still playing dumb about that ‘lookalike’ account.
Recently, Entertainment Tonight caught up with the King of Queens alum in a video shared to the outlet’s official Instagram, pressing him to finally set the record straight about the nearly 30 TikToks he’s appeared in, allegedly, fully in character. Unsurprisingly, James leaned all the way in on the bit, responding:
