Published on January 19, 2025 09:00AM EST

Keegan-Michael Key is making 2025 his year.

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the actor and comedian, 53, says he currently has two top-secret "bucket list" projects he's working on.

"I don't know how to answer without saying things I can't say," Key admits with a laugh. "If only I could tell you."

"I have two projects in development that I'm very excited about. Both are checks on my bucket list," he continues, then detailing, "One goes in the sports world direction and one goes in the action direction, which is very different than a lot of the work that I have done in the past."

"I got a good feeling this is [going to be my year]," adds the star — who has partnered with Jim Beam for their “7 Stages of Defeat” care package. "We'll see how it goes."

One upcoming project Key has lined up — that he can talk about — is the audiobook version of The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor, a book he and wife Elle Key released in 2023.

According to Key, he played a very important part when it came time to record the audiobook version of the publication. "There's lots of characters in the audiobook that I refer to, and I do the voices of all the characters," he tells PEOPLE. "It was a blast."

The idea to have him parody various comedy figureheads, Key says, came to fruition thanks to his wife — whom he married in 2018. "I said, 'Are we going to license the voices?' and she said, 'Oh, no, no. You're doing it. You're doing Dudley Moore, you're doing John Cleese, you're doing Carol Burnett, you're doing Chris Rock. You're doing all the voices,' " he explains.

One other project that Key can talk about is Play Dirty, a film directed by Shane Black, in which he stars opposite Mark Wahlberg, LaKeith Stanfield, Rosa Salazar and Dermot Mulroney, among others.

"It was a lot of fun," the Key & Peele star says of the filming process for the movie, which is expected to hit theaters soon.