/ it's also one of the most well made/they do seem to have a huge budget for this. which is maybe due to them not having any other regular cast members besides the two leads...? I dunno. Def top quality comedy at the moment.
they do seem to have a huge budget for this. which is maybe due to them not having any other regular cast members besides the two leads...? I dunno. Def top quality comedy at the moment.
I think part of it is that you can get really high-quality production value lookin stuff for so much cheaper now.
I'd bet their budget isn't enormous at all
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
just watched this one 3 times in a row
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st21dIMaGMs
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 05:07 (ten years ago) link
its so rare to want to watch a comedy sketch again immediately after you see it for the first time but these guys really nail it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link
omg "fopoon" KILLED ME
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 05:18 (ten years ago) link
Continental Breakfast is sooooo good. And the whole time I was thinking, "this is great, even if it isn't halloween themed like the rest of the skits", then suddenly just as it was about to happen, I got it.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 05:34 (ten years ago) link
I just caught the "room 237" reference
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/key-peele-partners-team-with-judd-apatow-for-universal-pitch-deal/
― Mordy , Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
it is grotesquely unfair that Britain got Lucas/Walliams and America got Key/Peele
*grotesquely*
― imago, Sunday, 17 November 2013 03:58 (ten years ago) link
Limmy will have to do
― imago, Sunday, 17 November 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
that sketch this week about the "wise old dude" was A+
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 November 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
these guys are both funny and this show has some inspired stuff occasionally but man…they can peddle some hacky shit, this season especially. i mean bits about people who keep pressing the elevator button and women-who can understand them! jokes, come on comedy pros. and the fuckin jokes about sports…plus they have this super eager to please musical theatre major vibe that makes the pandering to the coveted bro-y Men's Health subscriber demo especially unpalatable to me. like they don't really dig that material but hey we have ad time to sell, times are tough. i mean in the last episode i watched that sketch with the gay guy, the feminist, and the black power guy being constantly offended by the befuddled white guy was like some shit that rush limbaugh would write for the 1/2 hour news hour.also the gay panic/it's funny that these dudes are saying gay things sketches have started to feel really lol ew gross gays homophobic to me. comforting the comfortable. i dunno, it's a fine line when you traffic in dick jokes.
― slam dunk, Monday, 25 November 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
yeah, show is really funny sometimes, but it's really buckling under the strain of 15 hours of scripted television in which 2 guys explore the same handful of topics/premises over and over
― some dude, Monday, 25 November 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
it's been a much weaker season this go round as they've been fighting to figure out how to turn characters into franchises, yes.
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 November 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
i'm ok if they keep cranking out faux-80s videos
― Nhex, Monday, 25 November 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
Mattress of Solitude
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 November 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
was the best joke this season
pretty much every sketch they've done about sports has been great. the one about excessive celebration was hilarious. they just nail so many of the little things which helps when most of your sketches only have one or two central jokes.
― frogbs, Monday, 25 November 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
the over-celebration one was really good
― Nhex, Monday, 25 November 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
I was crying at that one, it was just immaculate
also loved that they repurposed a couple of the East/West players for it
― deX! (DJP), Monday, 25 November 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
I liked the flopping one
― polyphonic, Monday, 25 November 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
have we talked about how amazing the Halloween episode was?
― deX! (DJP), Monday, 25 November 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
That might have been their best one ever. They should really do more themed episodes.
― Simon H., Monday, 25 November 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
oh actually I guess we did, forgot about the extended discussion of the Shining sketch
― deX! (DJP), Monday, 25 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
This season has been pretty good so far. Some of the really far out or bizarre sketches are incredible. The ending twist on the "Cat Poster" was one of those "holy shit, this is brilliant" moments that so few sketch comedy shows have these days
― frogbs, Monday, 25 November 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
it put a nice bow on the whole thing but i'd hardly call it a brilliant twist
― some dude, Monday, 25 November 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
i just wish they hadn't flashed back through earlier parts of the sketch to drive the joke home. i just thought it was brilliant because it was one of those sort of reversal-of-fortune twist endings that happens to make no sense whatsoever
― frogbs, Monday, 25 November 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
the cat poster sketch was one of the ones that made me think 'damn they're really running on fumes here' like one of them had this idea for a usual suspects skit that they've had in a notebook since 1996 and madtv never went for it and its like finally the ball is in my court, comedy world
― slam dunk, Monday, 25 November 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
i loved the cat poster sketch. usual suspects parodies in 2013 rules
― if you stan for nothing you'll fall for everything (symsymsym), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 05:10 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM
― 乒乓, Monday, 16 December 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
so good
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 December 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
last couple of eps have been a major downer for me as either reused skits and characters take center stage or the skits just failhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3h6es6zh1cas always, don't read the comments
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 December 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
when someone brought up to me "man, they, do a lot of gay jokes, don't they?" i was ignoring it for a while, but...
― Nhex, Monday, 16 December 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
the ending of the skit above where flamboyant gay man says "oh i'm not persecuted, I'm just an asshole" and then exaggeratedly licks a massive candy schlong is not particularly defensible
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 December 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
I'm on board with these guys in general but there is something a little off, like they rely too heavily on certain tropes/approaches in a way that seems basically conservative - a midway point between Mr. Show and Dave Chapelle without ever going quite as far as either.
where did these guys come from? were they doing their own individual things (standup, improv etc) prior to this? they seem to have come out of nowhere
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
mad tv i thought?
― Mordy , Wednesday, 18 December 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
re: production quality - http://www.studiodaily.com/2013/12/getting-the-many-looks-of-key-and-peele/
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 22:44 (ten years ago) link
last couple of eps have been a major downer for me as either reused skits and characters take center stage or the skits just fail
every episode so far has had one sketch that I absolutely love but I can definitely agree with this. lately it seems like a lot of these sketches are just vehicles for odd one-liners.
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 December 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
The best skit show going (damning with faint praise I know). I like it better than Chapelle's Show (which had a lot of weak bits,) way better than "Whitest Kids" and miles better than those new dudes Bob Odenkirk sponsors. They can get just as weird as Tim & Eric and their acolytes but with the added benefit of actually being funny.
― All kinds of heinous things, Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
agreed
― Nhex, Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
yeah I find it funny that a lot of the online ads for it emphasize "hey, this is on TV, you don't have to just watch it on Youtube", even though it really is the perfect show for Youtube viewing, since a lot of these sketches are well worth watching multiple times and I don't think they've done an episode of all good ones yet (in my opinion of course)
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
they're probably getting a minuscule amount of money from YouTube ads... but this is honestly one of the few sketch shows out there that has a > 50% hit rate on their half hours, for the most part, difficult enough task as it is
― Nhex, Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
kinda reminds me of Big Train (at least the first season), which was 25% absolutely hilarious, 50% interesting (if not laugh-out-loud funny), and 25% total dud
where K&P excel is that even if you don't really like the joke, there's something else to appreciate. the one where they're two jazz musicians constantly trying to one-up each other (or the funk band that was just spouting nonsense about garbage and food) weren't necessarily all that funny to me but they were shot and acted out so well that I really enjoyed them anyway.
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
^thanks for the tip on the jazz duel, i had not seen that one and i love it deeply.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 19 December 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
speaking of this one is really funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUiA4blvQPQ
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 December 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
pussy on the chainwax redeemed by the too emotional zag when i assumed a zig was coming and the "coming to a conversation near you" graphic because i feel fairly certain i am gonna hear someone say that shortly.
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 December 2013 05:10 (ten years ago) link
dog park skit was perfect, really hit all the dog park marks
― mitch hedberg and kevin hart (sleepingbag), Friday, 20 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i agree
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 December 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
ok i keep thinking about "potato, potato" and losing my shit.
― eric banana (s.clover), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:19 (ten years ago) link
this is probably the most lean, polished sketch show that has ever existed
― wavy tare's cashout flicks (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 March 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link
The Key & Peele sketch should be in history textbooks pic.twitter.com/fBryh7SP89— Carter PHL (@CarterthePower) March 24, 2022
― jammin on the dud (Spottie), Thursday, 24 March 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link