Does this wild idea work? It does-just maybe not in the way you expect it to. In Keanu, they play cousins who tangle with a fake Los Angeles street gang (they’re called the 17th Street Blips) as they search for a missing kitten. That was the heart of the joke, and the brilliance of it.īut Key and Peele, obviously masters of sketch comedy, haven’t headlined a movie together until now. If these guys were all stereotypes, there were so many variations that you could hardly stereotype them. The gag was as intricate as an infinitesimal set of Russian nesting dolls. Some would face the camera with a glassy-eyed stare, as if the lens were a robber of souls.
Some were street, some were so soft-spoken they might be addressing their grandmas. The routine wasn’t just an example of masterful wordplay it worked because Key and Peele created a mini-personality for each player. Then there was the “East/West College Bowl” pregame routine, in which the two played an assortment of fake college football stars, introducing themselves on-camera with increasingly outlandish made-up names (Jackmerius Tacktheritrix, Davoin Shower-Handel, Swirvithan L’Goodling-Splatt).
These small bits were blissful, mini-works of casual genius: In the days when our current president seemed too reluctant to stand up to Congress, Key created and played Luther, Obama’s “anger translator,” who stood on the sidelines spewing all the things the Commander-in-Chief just couldn’t bring himself to say. Key and Peele, the duo of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, are best known and loved-for the Comedy Central sketch show bearing their name, which ran from 2012 to 2015.
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