Key and Peele
By Comedy Central’s comedy sketch show, “Key and Peele” wrapped up its fifth and final season a few days ago. A sad? Oh yeah, I haz one. I think it’s signing off too quickly, but maybe that’s the point: it’s better to go out on a high note, no? I’ve often said that the show was hit and miss, but I’ve also often said that that is almost always the nature of sketch shows. “Key and Peele” had some low points (or, rather, mediocre ones) but its high points made the show pretty notably awesome.
Part of the show’s success was due to the fact that Key and Peele aren’t just tremendously funny, they’re amazing actors. And the show’s production values were amazing. It was a quality show.
“Vulture” recently asked many comedians to talk about their favorite “K&P” sketches. I, too, was asked but I declined saying “I am a highly-paid blogger, rich in Bitcoin. I only share my opinions on comedy on LGM. Sometimes twitter. Sometimes with whomever is sitting next to me when I’m watching ‘Brooklyn 99.’ It is often a stuffed animal. What was the question again?”
I’ll remember “Key and Peele” for its high points. For Wendell, the lonely nerd, who made his own vanity music video.
It’s gleefully silly and I love it.
I’ll remember K&P for the sketch where the guys listen to two white women talk about how black men are innately “different” from white men. Alternately aroused and horrified, they eavesdrop as the white women get progressively more racist. It’s hilarious and biting.
I loved the sketch where K&P talk tough about their women in private, gradually moving further away and further away from the women so they can safely whisper-yell “I SAID ‘BIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH.'” K&P sketches often took a turn for the surreal. In this one, the dudes end up in outer space–it’s the only place they can brag about their bravado!
Speaking of surreal, I thought the sketch about Steve Urkel being the evil puppet master behind “Family Matters” was pretty brilliant
And, finally, you know how I feel about the “Gremlins 2/Hollywood Sequel Doctor” sketch. I’m still tittering over it.
I know I’m leaving some of my favorites out; perhaps you’ll correct my oversights and offer up some of your own.