thread of loving key and peele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t24XAntNCY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=7sg43aoRZeQ

x-wing @aliciousness

you actually used the word bitch though, right?

more and more I'm digging these should that seem aimed at the Youtube generation. there's incredible attention to detail here and the filming is first rate, which makes me surprised that Comedy Center hasn't cancelled it yet

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/11/01/wednesday-cable-ratings-american-horror-story-wins-night-south-park-duck-dynastyface-off-key-peele-south-beach-tow-more/155552/
it's pulling the same ratings as robot chicken and colbert report and it's not really getting serious critical buzz yet; i think they're gonna milk it for awhile

I keep forgetting to dvr it, but I've watched soooo many youtube clips

the East/West College Bowl football player names sketch is all-time

I was actually thinking of polling that sketch

SMOOCHY WALLACE

you should poll it, that would be fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFfia3Zs3lE

kinda love vandaveon and mike, tbh, they eerily like dudes i know---esp when mike falls out laughing

I went to a party on Saturday and EVERYONE was retelling the plots of Key and Peele sketches. It was overwhelming and weird.

really? that is weird, i'm p sure half my friends have never seen it?

sounds like that half of your group of friends weren't at the same party as polyphonic last saturday

just the other half

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcbj8BBsWSA

Third season just confirmed. I wonder if they'd have gotten it if Romney had won.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUvFeyGxaaU
bubs cameo!

okay Jordan Peele totally cracks me up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYr8f3ONwYY

That was a good one. Also loved the "Dunk the Vote" bit. "And then, it goes to the Electoral College!" "Wait, what?"

saw this for the first time and completely lost my shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn6roGifN_Y

hahahaha

fucking love this show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ZM0-f5_CU

Haha, this one was shot in front of my alma mater:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUvFeyGxaaU&feature=player_embedded#at=31

i keep forgetting to dvr it, I will rectify that tonight

there was a pretty chill, cool interview with Key on the Champs podcast recently

these guys are good but I feel like they haven't quite peaked yet, a lot of the jokes/sketches seem to just proceed to their logical conclusion, rather than shock/surprise

MORE FOOTBALL NAMES

:D

DJP that substitute teacher sketch you posted on FB *killed* me

looking forward to season premiere of this more than just about anything else still forthcoming

like moreso than raising a son

o god, "mergatroid skittle"

The substitute-teacher sketch is indeed amazing. I've shared it with a few other teachers. I always feel a little conflicted for liking it so much, which doesn't stop me from sharing it with someone else.

ok totally lol'd at Baron Helmut Von Schnitzelnazi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1bLXk6UVts

okay this stuff is amazing

dunno how many of you Americans have seen Limmy's Show but this would appear to be in the same humour ballpark, which is high praise

Full East/West Bowl 2013 sketch is up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT1nGjGM2p8

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/09/19/19-keypeele.o.jpg/a_190x190.jpg

First episode was pretty a plus

dunno if this will link right but that Hype Man sketch killed me

http://m.comedycentral.com/videos/video.rbml?id=eixxmi

ah found it
http://youtu.be/JTIPQdlLKTA

these guys have grown on me

god that sketch where Key plays the dude hooked up to the Kinect is so incredibly funny

"metta world news" is also incredible

Baron Helmut Schnitzel-Nazi

LOLOLOLOLLLLL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftwT-HI86kA

sketches like this are why I love these guys so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrpoK7Askck

like it's not only probably the funniest show on TV right now but it's also one of the most well made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mlp_Gcc_5Q

it's also one of the most well made

they do seem to have a huge budget for this. which is maybe due to them not having any other regular cast members besides the two leads...? I dunno. Def top quality comedy at the moment.

the Mr T & Miami Vice sketches from the past couple of weeks were hilarious, esp for the details

/ it's also one of the most well made/

they do seem to have a huge budget for this. which is maybe due to them not having any other regular cast members besides the two leads...? I dunno. Def top quality comedy at the moment.

I think part of it is that you can get really high-quality production value lookin stuff for so much cheaper now.

I'd bet their budget isn't enormous at all

just watched this one 3 times in a row

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st21dIMaGMs

its so rare to want to watch a comedy sketch again immediately after you see it for the first time but these guys really nail it

omg "fopoon" KILLED ME

Continental Breakfast is sooooo good. And the whole time I was thinking, "this is great, even if it isn't halloween themed like the rest of the skits", then suddenly just as it was about to happen, I got it.

I just caught the "room 237" reference

http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/key-peele-partners-team-with-judd-apatow-for-universal-pitch-deal/

it is grotesquely unfair that Britain got Lucas/Walliams and America got Key/Peele

*grotesquely*

Limmy will have to do

that sketch this week about the "wise old dude" was A+

these guys are both funny and this show has some inspired stuff occasionally but man…they can peddle some hacky shit, this season especially. i mean bits about people who keep pressing the elevator button and women-who can understand them! jokes, come on comedy pros. and the fuckin jokes about sports…plus they have this super eager to please musical theatre major vibe that makes the pandering to the coveted bro-y Men's Health subscriber demo especially unpalatable to me. like they don't really dig that material but hey we have ad time to sell, times are tough. i mean in the last episode i watched that sketch with the gay guy, the feminist, and the black power guy being constantly offended by the befuddled white guy was like some shit that rush limbaugh would write for the 1/2 hour news hour.
also the gay panic/it's funny that these dudes are saying gay things sketches have started to feel really lol ew gross gays homophobic to me. comforting the comfortable. i dunno, it's a fine line when you traffic in dick jokes.

yeah, show is really funny sometimes, but it's really buckling under the strain of 15 hours of scripted television in which 2 guys explore the same handful of topics/premises over and over

it's been a much weaker season this go round as they've been fighting to figure out how to turn characters into franchises, yes.

i'm ok if they keep cranking out faux-80s videos

Mattress of Solitude

was the best joke this season

pretty much every sketch they've done about sports has been great. the one about excessive celebration was hilarious. they just nail so many of the little things which helps when most of your sketches only have one or two central jokes.

the over-celebration one was really good

I was crying at that one, it was just immaculate

also loved that they repurposed a couple of the East/West players for it

I liked the flopping one

have we talked about how amazing the Halloween episode was?

That might have been their best one ever. They should really do more themed episodes.

oh actually I guess we did, forgot about the extended discussion of the Shining sketch

This season has been pretty good so far. Some of the really far out or bizarre sketches are incredible. The ending twist on the "Cat Poster" was one of those "holy shit, this is brilliant" moments that so few sketch comedy shows have these days

it put a nice bow on the whole thing but i'd hardly call it a brilliant twist

i just wish they hadn't flashed back through earlier parts of the sketch to drive the joke home. i just thought it was brilliant because it was one of those sort of reversal-of-fortune twist endings that happens to make no sense whatsoever

the cat poster sketch was one of the ones that made me think 'damn they're really running on fumes here' like one of them had this idea for a usual suspects skit that they've had in a notebook since 1996 and madtv never went for it and its like finally the ball is in my court, comedy world

i loved the cat poster sketch. usual suspects parodies in 2013 rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM

so good

last couple of eps have been a major downer for me as either reused skits and characters take center stage or the skits just fail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3h6es6zh1c
as always, don't read the comments

when someone brought up to me "man, they, do a lot of gay jokes, don't they?" i was ignoring it for a while, but...

the ending of the skit above where flamboyant gay man says "oh i'm not persecuted, I'm just an asshole" and then exaggeratedly licks a massive candy schlong is not particularly defensible

I'm on board with these guys in general but there is something a little off, like they rely too heavily on certain tropes/approaches in a way that seems basically conservative - a midway point between Mr. Show and Dave Chapelle without ever going quite as far as either.

where did these guys come from? were they doing their own individual things (standup, improv etc) prior to this? they seem to have come out of nowhere

mad tv i thought?

re: production quality - http://www.studiodaily.com/2013/12/getting-the-many-looks-of-key-and-peele/

last couple of eps have been a major downer for me as either reused skits and characters take center stage or the skits just fail

every episode so far has had one sketch that I absolutely love but I can definitely agree with this. lately it seems like a lot of these sketches are just vehicles for odd one-liners.

The best skit show going (damning with faint praise I know). I like it better than Chapelle's Show (which had a lot of weak bits,) way better than "Whitest Kids" and miles better than those new dudes Bob Odenkirk sponsors. They can get just as weird as Tim & Eric and their acolytes but with the added benefit of actually being funny.

agreed

yeah I find it funny that a lot of the online ads for it emphasize "hey, this is on TV, you don't have to just watch it on Youtube", even though it really is the perfect show for Youtube viewing, since a lot of these sketches are well worth watching multiple times and I don't think they've done an episode of all good ones yet (in my opinion of course)

they're probably getting a minuscule amount of money from YouTube ads... but this is honestly one of the few sketch shows out there that has a > 50% hit rate on their half hours, for the most part, difficult enough task as it is

kinda reminds me of Big Train (at least the first season), which was 25% absolutely hilarious, 50% interesting (if not laugh-out-loud funny), and 25% total dud

where K&P excel is that even if you don't really like the joke, there's something else to appreciate. the one where they're two jazz musicians constantly trying to one-up each other (or the funk band that was just spouting nonsense about garbage and food) weren't necessarily all that funny to me but they were shot and acted out so well that I really enjoyed them anyway.

^thanks for the tip on the jazz duel, i had not seen that one and i love it deeply.

speaking of this one is really funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUiA4blvQPQ

pussy on the chainwax redeemed by the too emotional zag when i assumed a zig was coming and the "coming to a conversation near you" graphic because i feel fairly certain i am gonna hear someone say that shortly.

dog park skit was perfect, really hit all the dog park marks

yeah, i agree

ok i keep thinking about "potato, potato" and losing my shit.

this is probably the most lean, polished sketch show that has ever existed

otm

like the more i watch this, the more i realize that these two guys have more sketch chops than anyone working today outside of kate mckinnon. the fact that they can both be on the same show is kind of unbelievable.

props of course to these dudes but i wonder how much of this is due to being able to do pre-recorded segments with production standards that would've been insanely cost-prohibitive even five years ago. say what you will about the lonely island dudes, they afaik were the first to really do the whole high-end production w/low-brow humor thing.

part of what makes so many of their skits work is that they are on-location and not on chintzy soundstages. and not playing to a studio audience tamps down the tendency to go super broad and lowest common denominator.

the continental breakfast sketch plays out in my head more or less every time I eat breakfast in this hotel :D

i wanna eat a banana sideways

first S4 sketch came out yesterday and it's hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWO1pkHgrBM

nearly 400k views in less than 24 hours. amazing

really psyched for this

with october approaching, I am having very fond memories of their halloween episode

:D

'ahh, the pit of the donut. thank you, Turkey' and 'like GoGurt but to stay' probably make me laugh harder than any other lines delivered on television.

that might be one of the 3 or 4 best tv comedy sketches ever

the one sufjan is referring to

it pretty much changed the entire hotel experience for me

ya see above

'like GoGurt but to stay'

hahahaha, I was walking down the street this morning thinking about this line

still knocking it out of the park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niL0a8U1T-A

omg that was amazing.

did all of that stuff actually happen in Family Matters?

the plots that they reference, that is

S8E1
"Steve, Stefan and the Winslow family spends a vacation at Paris with his Urk-Pad after accidentally sending Carl in place of cheese to his pen pal, Nicole. All is not well when they first arrive, Eddie accidentally damages the café that his parents were eating at and is forced to work there to pay off the damages. Then Nicole is blackmailed by her opportunist cousin, Gilbert to get the plans of the Urk-Pad. Meanwhile Stefan looks to Steve and asks him to help him build his family tree (per Laura's recommendation). The nerd not only helps him build his using the Urkel family tree, but he also admitted that he created Stefan for a lot of things he wanted to be in his life. Stefan admitted that he wasn't a smart guy, but does come close."

the Urk-Pad is a teleportation device of Steve's invention. He also invented a time machine, a cloning machine, a Transformation Chamber, and more. They're not exaggerating in the sketch, no.

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140316093142/familymatters/images/7/7d/Urkelbot.jpg

i always laugh at their stuff but also find myself wishing they were funnier :(

damn, I must have blocked these Family Matters episodes from memory

i had no idea about any of that weird family matters stuff

I know taking a concept and stretching it way beyond the breaking point is these guys thing but damn did that two old ladies in church sketch go farther than I could've possibly imagined. Went from "I hope this ends soon" to "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON" real fast

that family matters sketch was hilar

i have never watched this before, didn't even know what it was, turned on the tv in a hotel at random and saw the "old ladies in church" sketch, holy crow, how have i never encountered this insanity before

i mean good insanity by the way

i liked the steampunk sketch the other week as well

http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/100512000615/loving-this-conversation-in-case-you-missed-it

oh my god the ending to this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_eJ-zdLrA

the punchline to the slap-ass revisited sketch almost killed me

I don't think there will ever be a sketch I love more than one that has an impersonation of the coke head in die hard that calls out the insanity of how family matters evolved

I am forever in their debt for it

as did that xp

the punchline to the slap-ass revisited sketch almost killed me

yeah I'm cracking up just thinking about it

i haven't found anything they've done in two episodes funny; this is completely missing me now

They're v inconsistent. And prone to running jokes into the ground.

They're increasingly hit and miss for sure

They definitely are, though I've rewatched some old episodes and found I liked a some of 'em way more the second time around. There are a lot of funny moments and great lines that they don't pause for. Also they tend to base a lot of sketches on kind of obscure tropes or insignificant tropes.

They're v inconsistent. And prone to running jokes into the ground.

Well the second part is what I love about them, they come out the other side sometimes and taking things a few steps further than any other comedy show would is kinda their thing. If nothing else they really know how to end a sketch which is really lacking in a lot of sketch comedy (see: like 80% of all SNL skits)

The ending of the mattress skit is good, but what really gets me is when the sales guy goes to shake the customer's hand and the customer just sticks out his finger. It's a tiny moment in an otherwise pretty OTT skit but it's those tiny moments that make me love the show.

I wish there were an occasion for me to yell at someone, "I've done more cocaine than you WEIGH, motherfucker!"

Also they tend to base a lot of sketches on kind of obscure tropes or insignificant tropes.

this was a mr. show tic, and they are big fans

like "pussy on the chainwax"?

it feels like, as of late, they're leaning heavier on an insignificant trope to prop up an entire sketch and then not trusting the viewer to be clever enough to keep up
good example is the "Sex Investigator" skit last night where the character does the whole Hannibal 'this is my design' bit as he walks through the crime scene only he has to stop and masturbate every time he gets a revelation
just overly labored and without much payout; woulda been fine for a minute and a half and without the "Stand down Sergeant, that man is the best sex crime investigator in the department etc" expository
as much as i appreciate K&P show's high production values, i think the quality of the setup and filming sometimes hamstrings them by forcing them to ride a joke longer than they would otherwise if it were just a digital camera on location or in a set
the hit-it-and-quit-it dada quality of mr show and kids in the hall is lacking

but criticizing comedy is a losing game

your formatting of that post is a losing game.

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this show does look really good. i was watching chappelle's show recently and was struck by how cheap and shoddy everything looked-from the sets and the props to the video quality. I guess part of it is how far digital video/cheap CGI has come in the last 10 years.

I feel like I'm walking into the fire here but Chapelle's Show was really inconsistent too. All sketch comedy shows are really. I can't prove it but I also feel like Chapelle's only had like 10-15 minutes of comedy sketches in it per episode, it always seemed like it had way more commercials than any other CC show.

I guess I would agree that K&P tend to go on a little longer than they need to sometimes but I think their most brilliant sketches are the longer ones like "Flicker" or "High on Potanuse" or "Das Negros", and I think they work because they're not just comedies, they're like mini-dramas in a way. That's why I love the ending to the Matress Shopping one, cuz it's such an emotional shock

Like I don't if they've ever seen the UK show "Jam" but there's a similar vibe there sometimes

Chappelle's per episode content was definitely skimpier but I think it's writing was more consistent and audacious. Mr. Show and KITH are the gold standard for solid comedy sketch writing imo - not sure what I would contribute their higher quality control to.

also agree that this show looks REALLY expensive next to a lot of its predecessors but eh y'know that doesn't make it funnier

But even the gold standards of KITH and Mr. Show had lots of bummer sketches. Lots and lots.

yeah i watched all of mr show recently and there's a lot of painfully unfunny stuff in the latter seasons. chappelle's show always had a lot of pretty hacky sketch concepts/jokes that were saved by chappelle being an extremely funny performer.

even lesser KitH is pretty great

idk I'm lookin through the episode list of Mr. Show's last season and there's pretty much at least one genius sketch per episode imo: Law School (aka "a series of blowjobs"), Wyckyd Sceptre, Phone Sex, Dalai Lama, Intervention, God's Book on Tape, Fat Survivor, Teardrop Awards... the one largely laugh-less episode is Everest, I think

the one largely laugh-less episode is Everest, I think

wtf

what can I say I don't like that sketch and the rest is v filler-ish

Lethal Logo (Cold Open)
Sweetie Pie (Open)
Family Of Five (Link)
Rapist
Clumsy Waiter
Pallies
Food Ads (Fairsley Foods)
Everest
Bumbling Fool (Close)
Sweetie Pie (Cold Tag)

u r a madman

the story of everest is my favorite sketch from mr show! yes there are some gems there. just a lot of really unfunny dragged-out sketches as well imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oElF2ptOCkc

idgi

i heard a podcast with bob odenkirk (i think it was kevin pollack's?) where he says they did the everest pratfall so many times in a row that it was noticeably tense in the audience, and that there were more takes of it that were going to be in the sketch but the crowd had turned on it so much that they were unusable.

anyway seems like maybe the biggest distinction between K&P and the better shows is all the other shows mentioned had really good casts. K&P has a regular cast of two plus the occasional cameo guest star and that's it.

xp

I think I'm actually a little more forgiving because of that. Well, also because I missed the first couple of seasons mostly

I was just thinking that, though K&P can each do so many characters they don't really need other guest stars. Still only having two ppl in the focus limits what they can do and the sketches with say Ty Burrell or Cedric Yarbough are real good so I dunno why they don't bring people in more often

the horror workout sketch was pretty excellent.
had no idea until today that it was inspired by some weird Taylor Swift "Shake It Off" mashup

probably inspired by the original video that the swift was mashed up with, unless they turned the episode around super quick

I was v impressed/sorta surprised by Jordan's nimbleness & physique in that sketch; feel like Keegan-Michael is the one always doing the leg-showing-off humor (see his production company logo!).

They brought in a couple of ringers for this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&x-yt-ts=1422411861&x-yt-cl=84924572&v=mDp-ABzpRX8

nice that they found guys with senses of humor but hooooboy they have run this joke into the ground now.

i don't know who any of those other people are but "Swordless Mimetown" got me.

its too popular a sketch for them not to do it

worth it for "myriad profiteroles"

shazbot

http://i.imgur.com/LMI504F.png

Jordan Peele looking a little more withered lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkAK9QRe4ds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg58d8opQKA

this was funny but also made me feel really sad

that's the best piece I've seen of theirs in i don't know how long.

vicious

goddamn.

wow

damn it why didn't you guys remind me this has been back on for three weeks

last night's episode was really great.

it has definitely gotten better, like 40% hit ratio
why are they sticking with the car interstitials; they are consistently unwatchable
on the other hand, the production values on this show are among the best on television; they sometimes rescue otherwise stupid skits (the "Single black guy in a high school acapella group" bit for instance)

I noticed my DVR picking up on this again, didn't even realize...noiiice

I don't like the car bits either but they were better than the live audience bits, but worse than having nothing at all I guess

This season is the final one.

http://time.com/3972368/key-peele-ending/

makes sense. especially seeing Key in a lot more stuff lately. though i don't think there's as much of a quality dip as some of you guys say, but i started later

i think the last couple of episodes have been great. last night's especially. i haven't noticed too much of a quality dip with this show at all, i seem to remember last season being maybe my favourite yet. otoh i can totally see the rationale in ending it after this season, it's pointless going on too long with any sketch show, and perhaps veering into the tedious/stale for them making it. plus it seems to have really launched their careers, they have a film coming up iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkHqPFbxmOU

Phenomenally done.

lost it at the breakdown of the question in class "she's bringin in introvert into the conversation y'all..."

why are they sticking with the car interstitials; they are consistently unwatchable

yeah what are even the deal with those. are they supposed to be like True Detective s1? i can see why they wanted to put something between sketches besides the live stuff with an audience but it's not preferable at all.

I almost changed the channel when the commercial started. Or fast forwarded that is.

I like the car bits. I don't like that they still have the True Detective theme opener though.

Been watching lots of their clips and its a bit frustrating because they can be so good and they're really talented but I don't really enjoy most of them.

I discovered the MadTV Coach Hines stuff recently and I really loved that. The voice and the body movements are genius.

they can be so good and they're really talented but I don't really enjoy most of them

agreed - there's a certain lazy haminess to a lot of it, just loading things up w silly faces/dialogue/slapstick to make up for a lack of strong writing

disagree!

this show is the best, it's hit or miss (e.g. ive never found the luther sketches remotely funny), like every sketch show ever. but there is a level of attention to detail in everything, a lot of the sketches are extremely well-realized in terms of direction, acting, writing imo.

think this season has been great, glad they're going out on a high. looking forward to tonight's episode.

they do maintain high production values, but that only goes so far w me. A lot of times they have a simple concept taken to its logical conclusion and then run into the ground - like the politician dick pic sketch. As soon as the premise was made clear (ie within the first five seconds) I knew it was going to end with him walking out from behind the podium w no pants etc. and it did and then it got a callback later and I was just ehhh this is not that funny

I also think that coach Hines is probably one of the best recurring sketch comedy characters ever.

I still shout "I'll have what I'm having!" when a meal calls for it

MC Mom was quality

mc mom was so good

and the two "can i talk to you" guys in the parking lot was great.

loooooved Outkast tho

iwasn't that into this episode, kind of liked mc mom but i have an aversion to rap comedy sketches that i find hard to shake.

but yeah outkast sketch did it for me for sure.

I still shout "I'll have what I'm having!" when a meal calls for it

that sketch is an all-timer and the ending is still just OK. they have trouble with endings.

you just a Shining hater

weird how these guys can be so good and then turnaround and deliver a completely laugh-free episode complete with tired gay panic tropes I'm sure we were all hoping they'd burned out on

Jordan Peele loves "acting gay" a lot for sure. Wonder when that (and "hilarious" long duck dong and indian sub-continent comedy cliches) will eventually become taboo. Answer: probably never, mainstream comedy has gotten more rather than less offensive in recent years. blah.

Show is nearly over, three episodes left. And it feels like it's time, I haven't like the last couple episodes much at all, but I enjoyed the hell out of this show at times.

i really liked the gremlins 2 sketch

rick baker tweeted that it wasn't far from the truth, lol

i actually loved the content of the gremlins 2 sketch, it is a ridiculous movie, but that kind of flamboyant gay guy comedy stereotype always puts my nose a little out of joint.

That was essentially Hollywood from Mannequin, right?

cosign on that gremlins 2 sketch, that movie just...

Key and Peele are just such great actors. I love their ability to just nail a character and stick with it without resorting to that sort of Fred Armisen dead-eyed and skewed stare style of deadpan weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01l_jMhjVM

I will be watching Gremlins 2 asap.

That was essentially Hollywood from Mannequin, right?

I thought so too the moment he just stood in the doorway.

those Neil deGrasse Tyson bits were amazing from this week

lol I just watched those too

yeah those were good, glad they hung the episode around those. NdGT is kind of an untapped comedy goldmine

Kind of amazed that Peele didn't bust out that impression a long time ago tbh, it might be his best

the marbles sketch was so weird but i found it really funny bcz i would maybe do the same thing idk :)

I thought last season was pretty spotty but think they're basically killing it this season. Half the skits are brilliant and the other half are totally stupid and ridiculous and seem like they're saying "we're running out of ideas so we're gonna make this stupid thing as funny as possible"

outside of the excellent "negrotown", not much to say about the last two episodes. probably best they're moving on.
interesting trivia note: keagan michael key is the late dwayne mcduffie's half brother
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/09/key-peele-stars-surprising-comic-book-connection-is-a-familial-one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKkUhj5ryvE

key & peele will be missed :(

that was a real gem from the last episode

this looks pretty amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiDbqWMe7OI

omg i am sold
method man!

yesssss

oh my god I hadn't seen the Ray Parker Jr one before

so good

get me off of that cross

I kinda missed out on the last season, but I will say the Neil deGrasse Tyson and Gremlins 2 sketches were probably among the best they've ever done

the Tyson thing is easily way up there, so perfect. Gremlins 2 sketch not really funny if you have a) seen Gremlins 2 or b) find their gay stereotype schtick gross and stupid

show never rose above hit-or-miss imo, it always looked great but they had a tendency to run ideas into the ground and recycle stupid tropes as with the constant gay panic stuff

I'll see this movie though - should be fun if they don't go overboard with the action shit

the gay caricatures are definitely a problem

but never rising above hit-or-miss is a perennial feature of sketch shows imo - my favourite ever sketchshow kids in the hall has a ton of boring, unfunny sketches.

I appreciated that, and this probably contributed to hit or miss quality, they tended not to run successful recurring characters into the ground, and generally attempted to try new things throughout the show's run.

Gremlins 2 sketch not really funny if you have a) seen Gremlins 2 or b) find their gay stereotype schtick gross and stupid

Have you seen Mannequin, y/n

yes the character was a lot like Hollywood from mannequin but the character being referential doesn't mean it's not weak

maybe, but it's not a stereotype.

there were a lot of 80's movies that had gay characters like that

true that they overdo it but that's kind of a trait of the show, they overdo pretty much everything

I've seen Mannequin at least twenty times so this is personal for me

there were a lot of 80's movies that had gay characters like that

yeah too many to count, this was the stereotype gay men got in the 80s

also duh of course I have seen Mannequin it came out when I was an adolescent and featured nudity

or maybe I am confusing it with some other naked Kim Catrall movie? (looks like it was PG)

I def saw it

i feel like you didn't GET mannequin though

jk

heh

my favourite thing about mannequin was that the protagonist who is always changing jobs was called jonathan switcher. that's just good writing right there.

That Keanu thing isn't real, right? Are they trying to out Pootie Pootie Tang?

I was tired when I first saw it so I watched the trailer again. Not sure I found it funny, maybe fitfully amusing. Most of all it looked like a bit from the show, a fake trailer, but I can't imagine this stretched to a feature film length. The show's running riffs on cliche action movie tropes can be funny, but I don't know if they are 90 minutes of funny.

yup that's how I feel too

I think this is going to be hilarious

same

So, Squarespace hired them to do a thing for the Super Bowl:

http://www.avclub.com/article/key-and-peele-provide-live-commentary-about-sunday-231605

I think their last football special was the only thing of theirs my wife and I couldn't finish.

i just made this stuck on a v boring pointless conference call (that I am still stuck on) and cannot wait to ~deploy~ and/or ~leverage~ it frequently

http://i.imgur.com/cKlXbtd.gif

How was Keanu?

If you treat it like an action film with some fun George Michael and kitten interludes, it's a fun little flick.

pretty weak on the lols yea

the whole movie is the scene in the trailer where K&P act tough and then someone pulls a gun on them and they squeal in terror and narrowly avoid death repeated literally sixteen times

damn that's pretty much what i was afraid of. will wait for video

I actually liked this a lot more than I thought I would! It is, yeah, pretty much the same joke over and over, with a couple recycled from the show for good measure, and definitely one or two bits go on waaaaaaay too long (drug deal, George Michael gags), but K&P have such great chemistry that I guess it didn't matter that the script didn't get a little more attention. (Even as far as some of this shit goes some stuff was flat out lazy, like the way they got K's wife out of the movie ASAP).

But yeah, won't miss anything on video, except for the welcome "awwwwww" that comes from the crowd literally every time the cat is on screen, which was kind of fun.

This, however, you should watch now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9v-7rtVDk

also i feel like having seen New Jack City is a key element to 'getting it'? which i haven't

Nah, you don't need to see New Jack City. You just have to know that New Jack City was a movie at all and think it's funny that it exists, but affect there were no specific references or anything.

*spoiler* I thought the funniest theme in it was their satisfaction at how K's job skill in communication paid off

yeah i thought this was fun as hell, as ridiculously thin the premise was

i laughed out loud. more than once. it was funny!

even with potentials unfulfilled, both this movie and midnight special were much better than batman v superman.

ugh, you couldn't pay me to watch a dreary batman movie. this movie was totally entertaining and yeah it will keep until the dvd or whatever, but it was fun.

i mean it handled character motivations and consequences of wanton violence much better. and it was also less unintentionally ridiculous. (even the dream sequence was less ridiculous than batman's dream sequence)

xp agreed; not to sell it short, and i hope k&p make many more movies

why are comedy movies so hard to do well??????

Comedy movies? I want to know why comedy TV is so hard to do well. Like "Amy Schemer," "Broad City" ... we're talking maybe 10 episodes a year, each running about 25 minutes, with months of prep, pro writing staff, creative freedom and low budgets, a whole team, and they're so hit or miss it's embarrassing.

Ha, Schumer.

make us laugh itt within the next 15 mins

broad city is definitely more hit than miss for me. i dunno, i think there is good t.v. comedy. more than good movie comedy anyway.

i can't watch amy schumer for some reason. she bugs me.

when lincoln tells ilana that he slept with someone else and she makes him go over the details outside his car and jumps on it a la michael jackson and then gives him a penis kiss...man, that scene was a tour de force. and so expertly choreographed. just watched it last night. WAY better scene than i've seen in a movie comedy in forever.

and when abbi imitates ilana at the co-op? don't get me started...

make us laugh itt within the next 15 mins

Knock Knock

there was a trailer for a movie exactly like this one that ran before keanu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=921UzgGkcVw

except it was not a comedy. (but this wasn't exactly a comedy either)

i got a trailer for a movie that looked like Gone Girl. lady on a train or something? it looked like a lifetime movie. and an ed & lorraine warren brit amityville movie. hadn't thought about the warrens in a while.

considering they basically made this in 6 months I think this is a good sign for them

make us laugh itt within the next 15 mins

― Neanderthal, Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:19 PM (1 hour ago)

i feel you, i DO comedy LIVE at least once a week, and try to write once a day, and it is hard AF
it just seems like comedy movies don't happen very often and don't happen well when they do? like if you look at the whole HISTORY OF MOVIES how often a great one is a comedy is like...*shrug?* i would probably rate super troopers as the last great one??

think some comedy screenwriters fall into the trap of writing for the joke instead of just coming up with a great premise and letting the shit congeal organically. like Ghostbusters.

also otm about Super Troopers being dope

Saw the film tonight. Good, not great. Gets tangled up in parts, and too much time is spent involving George Michael jokes. Still worth seeing.

Also, yeah, there were WAY more New Jack City refs in this than I think anyone could have predicted.

all their sketches now on CC new site
http://www.hitfix.com/the-dartboard/comedy-central-launches-ultimate-destination-for-all-key-peele-sketches

http://www.cc.com/shows/key-and-peele/video-guide

Keanu is pretty terrific

Someone help me understand this trailer for Jordan Peele's Get Out

Looks intense.

Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams, Girls), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener, Captain Phillips) and Dean (Bradley Whitford, The Cabin in the Woods). At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRfnevzM9kQ

looks awesome.

^^^

no surprise given how well produced and thought-out the Halloween episodes of this show were

rotten tomatoes interviewed Peele about this march 2015

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/key-and-peele-star-talks-about-his-upcoming-horror-movie/

Very interesting!

I kinda hate Allison Williams but have to admit this looks p great

ya will see this

will be disappointed if Allison Williams doesn't get murdered somewhere along the line

so down for this

This looks awesome.

(shame the trailer is practically giving away the complete film tbh)

^^^i was expecting a tease, but its really spoilery

I hadn't given his music any thought in years, but the - I think genuinely felt - tribute in the movie Keanu reminded me that, yeah, the guy had a bunch of great songs.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, December 26, 2016 12:29 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

watched this in lieu of any other xmassy movie - a fitting tribute indeed

also a p funny film

I've never seen their show.

In conjunction with his horror film, Peele's programmed a series of 'social thrillers' at BAM's movie theater in Brooklyn, including among all the scary movies Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/jordan-peele

Not esp interested in his work as he was mega-kissing Obama's ass on NPR -- disqualifies him as a satirist.

oh brother

Get Out looks great tbh

super hyped

I couldn't sit through all of Keanu but this looks much better

It looks so good...and features my new favorite actor, Keith Stanfield aka Darious from Atlanta.

And Morbs, despite loving Obama, the show was often hilarious. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner I assume is being shown because his new movie is a like a horror version of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

I almost wonder if K&P only got picked up for a second season because of Obama's 2012 victory. At the time Obama & Luther was their most famous sketch and the show was too high budget for the audience they got, and CC is famous for cancelling shows like that.

the show was not great - occasionally really funny but only occasionally

I have a higher opinion. Enough classic skits for me.

I almost wonder if K&P only got picked up for a second season because of Obama's 2012 victory. At the time Obama & Luther was their most famous sketch and the show was too high budget for the audience they got, and CC is famous for cancelling shows like that.

― frogbs, Tuesday, February 21, 2017 1:31 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the show did well online - i.e. youtube videos of sketches - and was kept going because of this online popularity.

i thought it was a great sketch show, would struggle to think of a recent sketch show that comes near it tbh

keegan is apparently in shane black's new predator movie

yup, it's filming, he's one of the main cast

huge picture http://i0.wp.com/ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/shane-black-predator.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2700px%2C1800px&resize=2000%2C1333&ssl=1

xxxp yeah that makes sense too. cherrypicking stuff on YouTube is generally the way to do it because most episodes would have one or two sketches that fell flat. and as mentioned the good stuff is really really good. in fact that's what often made the show disappointing since there are some sketches where you just think, "c'mon, you guys are better than this". that said the hit/miss ratio is a lot higher than any other sketch show I can think of, outside of maybe SNL from a zillion years ago

K&P's sketches mostly followed a similar formula (something slightly ridiculous gradually escalates until it is the most ridiculous thing of all time), but the attention to detail in the costumes/production, the sharp writing, and the way that K&P would throw themselves into their characters elevated the show into a quality sketch show.

it's a similar formula but I feel like K&P took that idea a lot further than any other American sketch show I can name. the series finale callback to the first episode was pretty brilliant, in retrospect

agreed - their h/m ratio was staggeringly good compared to like 99% of sketch comedy shows - even Chappelle's Show - and their highs were really high. the great production/direction helped a lot too ofc

That formula was SOOO consistent too, but gave some great classics like "I Said Biiiiitch" and the one where they order soul food.

But there's also some greatly absurd stuff like continental breakfast.

My friend got to act w/Key in ad shot in Houston during the Super Bowl. She said he was really awesome and nice.

with his first film, he’s already an American Buñuel.
-Richard Brody

get out is v good and i should probably start a thread about it

yes plz

yes.

realllllly want to see it

can't stop saying 'That's the combat seat, Jonathan Livingston Seagull' this week

I was *I* was high on pot-enuse...

I still think of the ending to that mattress shopping sketch though I never quite figured out what the implication was

the Turbulence flight sketch still kills me. esp the way Peele slides over after Key tries to get out of his aisle to take a shit

also every time Key hits the roof of the plane due to turbulence

Come on Mr. Computer, throw me a bone! Lawnmower man! Get up offa my lawn

after careful consideration I think the Ray Parker Jr. commercial is probably one of the funniest sketches ever made

when armageddon is near, you better get outta here. lookin like a DEEP IMPACT. I ain't afraid of no 'stroid.

saw at the cinema yesterday: trailer for Toy Story 4 featuring Key & Peele doing their parking valet characters, enthusing about Buzz Lightyears

i saw that the other day:D

lmao I've never seen this one, this might be my favorite character they've done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2K3YIOO2zg

I had seen it, but yes

have we really never done a K&P sketch poll???

Prepared For Terries is the first one I saw and remains my favourite, despite having now seen a lot more. did they ever revive those characters?

Malcolm Barrett is an amazing straight man/foil in that one

Prepared for Terries was in the last season. I'd seen it so many times in youtube etc before I watched s5, I was surprised it was actually broadcast so late in their run

Agreed re: Malcolm Barrett, what a turn!

Was that sketch perceptibly a reference to anything else or was it just their own fevered imaginations? The bit where Keegan first glides into view is spine-chilling

so many brilliant sketches but very very hard not to vote for Continental Breakfast

Substitute Teacher I for me

Football drafts. Or maybe hip-hop hype man, Peele is so perfectly ott in that one.

Draxt. Them. Sklountz.

Neider the weel no the gumption

The heart nor the gumption excuse me

top 4 for me -
Big Boi & Andre meet in a coffee shop
I said biiiiiiiiiitch
"I'm gonna fuck you in the ass"
MMA pre-fight trash talk

continental breakfast is an obvious classic. 'the flicker' was another one. they were also the rare sketch show where the returning bits never lost their luster (football names, valets, substitute teacher, obama, etc.)

i think the 80s aerobics sketch might take the cake for me though, and was the kind of sketch that made me less surprised than most when jordan peele turned into a horror auteur

continental breakfast suffers amidst this competition for its so-so ending imo

to be fair, some of the best comedy sketches ever have so-so endings

I never saw the Big Boi/Andre sketch, holy lol

fuck I forgot about that one

no way could I pick just one but the "ultimate cockblock" sketch is definitely in the running

cat poster made me laugh so much

Their hit:miss ratio varied pretty wildly for me esp in later seasons but for sheer quantity of amazing sketches/characters they're up there with some of the best I've seen

can't believe anyone doesn't like the ending of continental breakfast

I can't believe I totally forgot about the aerobics sketch.

Has Keanu aged well? I remember it being very unfunny when I first tried to watch it (never finished it).

I watched maybe 30 minutes and bailed. One-joke movie.

(I guess it's possible the other jokes came later.)

I watched the whole thing and it was bad

Keanu was not good, though it did feature a subdued pre-Girls Trip Tiffany Haddish. Felt like a typical SNL movie, bad sketch premise extended to feature film length. Maybe find the Anna Faris parts online somewhere.

I never saw the Big Boi/Andre sketch, holy lol

― (so serious) (DJP), Wednesday, May 27, 2020 10:40 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao oh my god

I'm trying to think of how to even hypothetically run a key and peele sketch poll and it's dizzying. Each recurring premise/set of characters gets lumped into one slot I guess?

Maybe find the Anna Faris parts online somewhere.

She really was the queen of livening up otherwise subpar comedies for quite a while there

INSUBORDINATE! AND CHURLISH!

Each recurring premise/set of characters gets lumped into one slot I guess?

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, May 27, 2020 11:22 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i was like the valets are my no. 1

just gonna start rewatching episodes at random

rob delaney gets a big laugh out of a 5-second appearance

admittedly there are a lot of not very good or worse sketches I completely forgot about

continental breakfast suffers amidst this competition for its so-so ending imo

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 17:11 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

it suffers more for its lack of Key tbh

big boi and andre is up there

soul food competition and I said biiiiitch.

the aerobics one was fun but it was also like, just a recreation of a real thing?

admittedly there are a lot of not very good or worse sketches I completely forgot about

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, May 27, 2020 12:00 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

was rewatching some early season news with my gf, who had never seen the show, and it is for sure a bit more hit and miss than I had remembered. she wasn't particularly impressed and we ended up only watching a season or so.

Obama mic drop on the street corner is almost too short to qualify but it’s another favorite.

iirc the later seasons were stronger. though some of the all-timer sketches are in seasons 1 and 2

The real thing didn’t have a murder subplot, tbf

college obama + bobby mcferrin vs michael winslow are the best key and peele sketches

jaleel white

"you've got an INCONSISTENT VISUAL LANGUAGE!"

i never found the outkast one to be that funny

the outkast one was funny, but not true to the rule dudes' dynamic.

bobby mcferrin vs michael winslow, that was hilarious. also remembering the lmfao sketch was pretty good.

It always seemed to me like Andre 3000 had flamboyant style but kind of a dour personality, while Big Boi had a more restrained personal style but was also more cheerful.

I love a ton of K&P sketches but I don't think any has made me laugh harder than the crying gangster.

omg, can't believe i didn't think about front hand, back hand

just rewatched the Mr. T sketch, holy shit I forgot how funny it was

I'd missed that one somehow. Extremely good

I kind of feel bad for it, but I can't watch this without thinking of their aerobics sketch:

Una mujer hizo su clase de aerobic sin darse cuenta de que estaban dando el golpe de Estado en Myanmar. Y pues puede verse como el convoy de militares llega al parlamento. pic.twitter.com/fmFUzhawRe

— Àngel Marrades (@VonKoutli) February 1, 2021

"Keep dancing!"

wow

Reunited for "Wendell & Wild," a stop animation Netflix movie from Henry Selick!

The Key & Peele sketch should be in history textbooks pic.twitter.com/fBryh7SP89

— Carter PHL (@CarterthePower) March 24, 2022