It was a sad weekend for fans of Comedy Central’s “Key & Peele“: News broke that the fifth and current season of the Emmy-nominated show will be its last. This series will end after season five comes to an end, with stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele moving on from TV to a bigger, funnier future.
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Signing for a multimillion dollar contract sounds nice, considering the average teacher’s salary, and being the first-round draft pick in a fantasy school league would probably be great, too.
Last but certainly not least: The president’s anger translator, Luther, says everything the commander in chief can’t. Feel free to draw any comparisons to the teaching profession.
The Comedy Central show has made it five seasons and the two talents have finally made the confirmation in a recent interview with The Wrap.
“It was just time for us to explore other things, together and apart. That’s the plan right now”.
Key & Peele was anecdotal proof that black comics, and the content they might produce about race every now and then, could be consistently appreciated by mainstream audiences who want to laugh.
The show won a Peabody Award in 2013 and received a handful of Emmy nominations this year, including Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Key. “We’re doing the reboot of Police Academy, and there’s a TV show in the works that me might do for Comedy Central“.
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Period 5 of “Key & Peele” is presently airing and will run into September.
