“It was just time for us to explore other things, together and apart” – Keegan-Michael Key tells The Wrap.
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Comedy Central success story Key & Peele, starring Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, is ending after five seasons, with the show’s legacy including a Super Bowl special and a trip to the White House. Its current season will be its last.
After Key’s character shows up in a cappella practice unwanted, Peele is forced to defend his turf.
All of the Season 5 episodes have been shot, he added, and the series will come to a close in September.
The show won a Peabody Award in 2013, with a citation that noted, “They tackle racially charged issues and ideas like no one else on television …”
There’s no denying that over the past few years Key and Peele have emerged as two of the strongest performers working in comedy.
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The sketch comedy show, which bowed in 2012, received seven Emmy nominations this year, including noms for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nod for Key. On that topic, Key said, “There will be Key and Peele productions coming up. There’s lots of stuff we have cooking up”.
