# Anybody else watching Key & Peele? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977 "2012-02-15T23:31:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/1 "2012-02-15T23:31:13Z")
on Comedy Central? Wiki says CC only ordered 8 episodes as of yet. I think it is great. Sketch comedy is always hit and miss. I think this one hits a lot more than it misses. Anyone seen it? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/2 "2012-02-16T00:44:03Z")
I thought their Presidential Anger Interpreter sketch was great. Otherwise, hit or miss. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/3 "2012-02-16T00:49:05Z")
I loved their skit about the R&B duo where one of them was on the DL. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/4 "2012-02-16T01:07:37Z")
That’s right I TOLD her. I went right in her face and I said, I said. . .::looks around furtively and whispers:: _"Biiiiitch!_. I’ve only seen two episodes but I liked what I saw. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/5 "2012-02-16T01:18:09Z")
I loved the lil’ Wayne prison sketch. It was dark, but unexpected. The best was the Presidential Anger Interpreter sketch. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/6 "2012-02-16T02:43:03Z")
I’ve only seen the “Obama’s Anger Translator” sketches on-line. Pure Genius!! No matter what else Key & Peele do, those videos will be in future retrospectives of the Obama era. Um, with a bunch of bleeps. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/7 "2012-02-16T06:31:06Z")
They seem like likable guys who are quite earnest but its one note humour. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/8 "2012-02-16T16:14:19Z")
[Obama at a rap battle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X9tuwH9I5Q) was quite amusing. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/9 "2012-02-16T16:24:19Z")
[Comedy Central did renew this for a second season recently](http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/14/idUS33373432720120214). The new boss over there has been doing good things lately. I really like Key & Peele. I worry they’re trying too hard to shoehorn it into a Chappelle format (audience bits mixed with sketches) but I always thought Chappelle Show was overrated and I really love K&P. Some of the sketches are quite smart. The MLK/Malcolm X play was brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/10 "2012-02-16T17:05:17Z")
I haven’t seen much of it, just a few minutes before the Daily Show a couple times. The feel I got from this limited sampling was, “We’re black, so when we drag out tired old racial stereotypes, it’s not offensive, it’s _funny_!” I did grin a couple times at the Obama sketch, but that kind of falls into this category too. People here seem to like it, though, maybe I’ll give it more of a chance. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/11 "2012-02-16T17:14:24Z")
Yeah, we’ve been watching it. Hit or miss, but more hits than misses, and occasionally damn funny. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/12 "2012-02-16T20:08:09Z")
I’ve been watching it and I really enjoy it. I always liked them on MadTV and I’m glad they have this show to keep doing sketches. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/13 "2012-02-16T20:23:46Z")
_“I’m sorry I judged you!”_ That was funny. Two gangbangers cannot perform a hit on a rival gang because one of them has pooped in his pants. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/14 "2012-02-16T21:01:17Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I haven’t seen much of it, just a few minutes before the Daily Show a couple times. The feel I got from this limited sampling was, “We’re black, so when we drag out tired old racial stereotypes, it’s not offensive, it’s _funny_!” I did grin a couple times at the Obama sketch, but that kind of falls into this category too. One of the things I like about the sketch I linked to is that it’s not about being Black as it is about having the ultimate topper. “_You’re_ a bad-ass? I’ve got nuclear weapons and Seal Team 6.” ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/15 "2012-02-16T22:19:13Z")
I kind of keep hoping they’ll break out into one of the ‘man up’ sketches. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/16 "2012-02-16T22:21:45Z")
But the jokes aren’t just that they’re black, they do a lot with the fact that they’re both HALF black and how the way they act depends on who they’re around - like the scene where the girlfriend wants Key to “Black it up” with the restaurant staff. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/17 "2012-02-16T22:24:11Z")
The one I quoted had little to do with their blackness and all to do with macho posturing about girlfriends/wives. Unless only black people do that. I never thought about that. ---
**Author:** ![CALIBURN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@CALIBURN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CALIBURN)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/18 "2012-02-17T03:54:45Z")
very much like this show and the comedians on it. hope it does well. though it does have the feel of a cleaner, 2 man chapelles show. loved Key’s work on madtv especially this character i just cut from wiki: “Jorge (Taco Hell), a melodramatic fast food worker who protests against the gross Americanization of Mexican food” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/19 "2012-02-17T19:10:23Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > But the jokes aren’t just that they’re black, they do a lot with the fact that they’re both HALF black and how the way they act depends on who they’re around - like the scene where the girlfriend wants Key to “Black it up” with the restaurant staff. That was hilarious! Talking to 5 different people, going from white-Jeff to black-Jeff and back… ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977/20 "2012-02-17T21:27:20Z")
> [@CALIBURN](#): > > loved Key’s work on madtv especially this character i just cut from wiki: > > “Jorge (Taco Hell), a melodramatic fast food worker who protests against the gross Americanization of Mexican food” Definitely a great character. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y1myuhUi1Bs?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque From Jorge’s co-worker: “I got herpes. The end.” One of my favorites is Coach Hines. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9MrSB0ZtKyE/hqdefault.jpg "The Best of Coach Hines - Part 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MrSB0ZtKyE) > [@](#): > > get that ipod out of your melon holes or I will download my left cleet in your fart chimney. Coach hines had some great lines. > [@spooje](#): > > That was hilarious! Talking to 5 different people, going from white-Jeff to black-Jeff and back… Yeah; To guy: “I’m going to kick your ass.” turns to other guy: “Thank you so much you were so helpful.” What sucks is I suspect that the great characters they had on MadTV are probably considered MadTV property. I would love to see some more “Man up” sketches. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-key-peele/612977.md?page=2)