Keegan-Michael Key & Jordan Peele
Keegan-Michael
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The Builder
Combined
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The Creator
Jordan
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The Achiever
Legacy
Created Key & Peele on Comedy Central — one of the most critically acclaimed sketch shows in television history. Peele went on to direct Get Out and Us; Key became one of Hollywood's busiest character actors.
The numerological dynamic
Both were trained Second City performers with complementary strengths — Key in physical performance and impressions, Peele in structural comedy writing and character psychology. Their show was unusually smart about race, identity and American culture.
Key and Peele worked from the same creative premise — that the most interesting comedy explores the complicated truth of American racial identity — and each brought different tools to explore it.