KEY & PEELE: SERIES PREMIERE (TV)
Summary
The first in this sketch comedy series, created by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, focusing on societal themes and race issues. In this episode, Key and Peele offer intermittent on-stage commentary on such topics as: why they, as biracial men, must often "adjust their blackness" for different surroundings; the escalating weirdness of popular reality television programs; Peele's avoidance of driving and Key's oddly polite "road rage"; an embarrassing encounter with an old school friend; and why they both enjoy "the best of both races."
Pre-taped sketches include the following: two men who adjust their "urban" dialect while passing one another on the street; a pair of friends' desperate attempts to avoid being overheard using a certain unfavorable word about their wives, prompting them to have their conversation in outer space; an installment of "Gideon's Kitchen," in which a chef offers very confusing and extreme praise and scorn for a contestant's dish; diminutive rapper Lil Wayne's misadventures in prison; a commercial for Ancestry.com, in which many black users are surprised to find a connection to Thomas Jefferson; a doctor's annoyance at his marijuana-seeking patient's wildly-exaggerated fake complaints; and an address from the even-tempered President Obama and his "anger translator" Luther. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: Comedy Central
- DATE: November 30, 1999 10:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:21:29
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 122377
- GENRE: Comedy/Variety
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - Comedy; Comedy/Variety; Sketch comedy
- SERIES RUN: Comedy Central - TV series, 2012-2015
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Joel Zadak … Executive Producer
- Jordan Peele … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Keegan-Michael Key … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Ian Roberts … Executive Producer, Writer
- Jay Martel … Executive Producer, Writer
- Keith Raskin … Producer
- Scott Sites … Producer
- Peter Atencio … Director
- Sean Conroy … Writer
- Rebecca Drysdale … Writer
- Colton Dunn … Writer
- Alex Rubens … Writer
- Charlie Sanders … Writer
- Reggie Watts … Theme Music by
- Keegan-Michael Key … Cast
- Jordan Peele … Cast
- Christina Anthony … Cast
- Mars Crain … Cast
- Nyima Funk … Cast
- Reatha Grey … Cast
- Marc Evan Jackson … Cast
- Jim Turner … Cast
- Dana Michael-Woods … Cast
- Thomas Jefferson
- Lil Wayne
- Barack Obama