"The idea for the majority of the writing process was that Mr. GARVEY WAS SUPPOSED TO TEACH SPANISH CLASS IN THE SKETCH.Īccording to an interview with The Week, the "Substitute Teacher" sketch-which is so popular now that it's going to be turned into a movie-was originally about Mr. Since then, the duo has actually helped President Obama ride that divide, most recently with Key serving as his “anger translator” during this year’s White House Correspondents' Dinner. What if we had a surrogate who could get upset for him?’ And that was the embryonic state of creating Luther. He can't rail at this man, he can't get upset. And we were like, ‘The president can't react the way millions of Americans right now are going, 'Ugh!' He can't say anything. “We know we're frustrated when a person like Joe Wilson had screamed during that State of the Union address, when he was like, ‘You lie!’ to the president. “We actually felt like Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place, because there's this biracial person who might have to ride the divide between two different races,” Key told NPR in 2013. THE DUO CREDIT PRESIDENT OBAMA WITH GETTING THEIR SHOW ON THE AIR. In the 2006 video for “White & Nerdy," Key and Peele play a couple of gangsters riding around in a Chevy Impala who are scared off by Weird Al’s creepiness. But it happened, and you can thank Weird Al for that. It’s hard to picture a time in life where Key and Peele would appear in a music video that referenced MySpace. THEY SHOT A CAMEO IN THE WEIRD AL VIDEO “WHITE & NERDY” YEARS BEFORE THE SHOW STARTED. "You don’t want to put a rubber chicken in your mouth." 4. “You don’t want to try to get a laugh in the title, because if it doesn’t work, it’s the equivalent of taking a super-wacky picture," Peele added. “It sounded silly or it felt stupid, because we were trying too hard," Key told The AV Club. īefore settling on the rather straightforward Key & Peele, the pair experimented with several different titles for their Comedy Central show, including Beige.
When it was Peele’s turn to perform, Key marveled at his Ute bit. KEY AND PEELE "FELL IN COMEDY LOVE" WITH EACH OTHER AT SECOND CITY.Īccording to a story they told Jimmy Kimmel, Peele first encountered Key when he witnessed the comedian do his Coach Hines character at Second City way back in 2003, when Peele’s troupe, Boom Chicago, was visiting from Amsterdam. At one point, there were four African American people on the cast, and the writing on the wall was that they only wanted two, so me and Jordan were lucky to have made a good impression on the executive producers during casting.” 2. I think the executive producers at MADtv saw that and wanted to keep us both around. When asked about their audition, Key told Onward State, “They saw that we worked really well together because we both try really hard not to stop until something is right, and throw it out if it isn’t there. In the early aughts, Key and Peele actually faced off against each other for a spot on MADtv. KEY AND PEELE AUDITIONED AGAINST EACH OTHER FOR A SPOT ON MADTV. In the meantime, here are 14 fun facts about Key & Peele that’ll impress anyone in your "Intro to Improv" class and beyond. “There will be Key and Peele productions coming up,” Key told Variety. And while that may mean the end of Key & Peele, the series, it does not mean the end of Key and Peele, the collaborators.
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Yet the end is near for this groundbreaking series in July, the duo announced that the show's current season will indeed be its last. The duo even teamed up to play a pair of FBI Agents (Pepper and Budge) on FX’s hit movie-turned-series Fargo. In a mere five seasons, the comedy duo has already managed to work with (and also turn down) President Obama, win a Peabody Award, and be recognized with eight Emmy nominations as well as a nod for Outstanding Comedy Series from the NAACP Image Awards. Since Key & Peele, their aptly titled hit Comedy Central sketch show, debuted to 2.1 million viewers in 2012-the largest premiere in the network’s history since the 2009 debut of The Jeff Dunham Show-Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have become comedy demigods.
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