I love the idea that living status can’t save a person from awkward encounters with basic acquaintances. Oh man, I’ll go ahead and establish this as my personal runner-up for sketch of the week. “I didn’t see it-I got the worst seat in the house!” “Did you see the part where all this was going on, shaking your tail feathers and what not?” His completely naive one-word responses to Key’s straight-man archetype take the most basic text and load them with hilarious subtext. On the performance front, however, Peele is MVP. It’s not a bad premise, but, in practice, it makes for a mostly on the nose concept that feels a tad uninspired. When the latter farmhand finally manages to compliment a woman in a “subtle” way, she responds with a raunchy quip that suggests that feminine politeness is a generalization. Key’s character is on the charm-offensive, and Peele’s character is just kinda offensive. Here, two farmhands try to woo passing women using very different tactics. Key & Peele has included a feminist-leaning sketch in every episode of this season thus far, and here is this week’s dip into the topic. “The neck? How you gonna fit his head, through this, with the orange hump shit?” But its success hinges entirely on the performance of our titular players. Now, that’s not to say it’s not worth your time. Then there is a distinct feeling that, perhaps, this sketch was much more clever in theory than practice. Mainly, its early jokes can’t match the latter’s ones-their employment of certain clichés just doesn’t work as well as others. But where that sketch was delightful in its quirks, this bit is much, much clunkier. Admittedly, I remember the Ratatouille bit quite well, and fondly, too. What we’re offered are two familiar characters (Cedric and Levi, of last season’s steampunk Ratatouille bit) continuing to interact as strongly disparate personalities. In fact, watch it for Peele’s consistently hilarious spin on even his most insignificant text. I can’t call this my favorite bit of the week, but I will say this: watch this sketch, if only for the chance to hear Peele quietly whisper the name of his pet goose, Honkers. If I had to identify it, I’d call it a gun… of the long ass variety. The blueish color palate, soundtrack stingers, and slow zooms sell this sketch as only a slightly more ridiculous riff of the real deal.īest Line: “I have no idea what that object is. Key & Peele is never one to skimp in this regard, but this bit’s cop drama aesthetic is part and parcel for its inspiration. Not to mention, the cinematic styling here is top-notch. His lazy vocals and shifting eyes brilliantly counterbalance Key’s increasingly frustrated detective, and the slow descent into complete absurdity safely delivers the joke to its killer resolution. However, the detective has some pretty incriminating stuff: an album released by the rapper himself (“I Killed Darnell Simmons”) that is intensely confessional…and strangely narrative. Called in for questioning in relation to a homicide, Gun Rack coolly denies his involvement in the crime. This sketch-which pits rapper Gun Rack (Peele) against an investigator (Key)-is the highlight of the batch. Thanks, Key & Peele!īest Line in Show: “Last time I checked, time is still real, okay? So technically speaking, I’m much older now than I was all those seconds ago.” Consider this an (intentionally) hilarious entry into the current #penisgate dialog. Indecent exposure is kind of a hot topic right now, making the timeliness of this bit ridiculously choice. It’s delightfully bizarre, and engages the viewer by tapping into both celluloid scenarios, like the wildly heightened drama of a press conference, and current headlines. A much more developed opening sequence than the show’s typical zinger (which still has a place in this week’s episode, only much later on), this vignette feels right for kicking off the program. Long live the legacy of infamous dick picks!(?) Surely we can thank a slew of particularly bizarre headlines (Hi, Anthony Weiner circa 2011!) for inspiring tonight’s opening sketch, in which a politician tries with all of his might to politely address his dick pic habit. Let’s jump right in and see what we’re working with: This week’s episode of Key & Peele is one of the strongest offerings of the season thus far.
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