carimmohelp: ‘Key & Peele’ may be a key to Comedy Central success

четверг, 2 февраля 2012 г.

‘Key & Peele’ may be a key to Comedy Central success

key-and-peele-blog Comedy Central has tried and failed with many series in recent years. "Tosh.0" aside, nothing compares to the network's late-night shows ("The Daily Show," "The Colbert Report" or its longest-running prime-time hit ("South Park".

But new sketch comedy "Key Peele" (10:30 p.m. Tuesday might be able to break out where other series have not. For starters, its hits outpace its misses – by a mile. That's not often the case with sketch comedy shows. Just as important, the humor is consistently smart.

Read more after the jump. …

The series stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both of "Mad TV," who play an assortment of characters and appear as themselves in segments taped in front of a studio audience. In the first studio segment, they introduce themselves as bi-racial and acknowledge that they sound "very white."

"You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in the room," Mr. Peele says.

In one sketch, two friends hide from their wives in an effort to refer to them with the b-word that rhymes with witch. The lengths to which they will go to say the word without being heard are comically absurd.

In another segment, Mr. Peele plays President Obama, who hires Luther (Key to be his "anger translator." "You know those [expletives] are gonna say no before I even suggest something," the anger translator says about the Republican-controlled congress, before shouting into a megaphone, "I am not a Muslim!"

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