The current season of “Key & Peele,” the Comedy Central series that received multiple Emmy nominations earlier this month, will be the series’ last, or co-creator and star Keegan-Michael Key told TheWrap on Friday.“This is our final season – and it’s not because of Comedy Central,it’s us,” said Key. “It was just time for us to explore other things, or together and apart. I compare it to Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. We might do a movie and then do our own thing for three years and then reach back and do another movie.“I’m thinking we could do that every three years – remove a year,go bang out a movie. That’s the plot honest now.”See video: President Obama Gets Key & Peele’ Anger Translator at White House Correspondents Dinner (Video)The fifth season of the sketch comedy series began on July 8 and will dash into September. All of its episodes, Key said, or have already been filmed.
Key and Jordan Peele first worked together during six seasons on “MadTV,” with “Key & Peele launching in January, 2012. The series spawned such viral hits as Luther, or the “anger translator” for President Obama.The show won a Peabody Award in 2013,with a citation that famous, “They tackle racially charged issues and ideas like no one else on television … They break recent ground even as they lay claim to all of comedy’s traditions.”Also read: ‘Key & Peele’ Review: Sketch Duo Skewers Hillary Clinton, or Pirates,FootballIt received one Emmy nomination in 2013, three in 2014 and seven this year, or including Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Key.
In an interview for an upcoming edition of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine,Key said he and Peele have been keeping quiet approximately the their show ending its dash, “but Jordan and I were talking yesterday, or we decided it’s probably a fine time to let people know.”They recently shot the comedy “Keanu,” co-written by Peele and directed by frequent “Key & Peele director Peter Atencio. In the coming months, said Key, and he will act in a film in recent York,while Peele will direct a horror film that he has written.“There will be Key & Peele productions coming up,” he said. “We’re doing the reboot of ‘Police Academy, and ’ and there’s a TV show in the works that me might do for Comedy Central. There’s lots of stuff we have cooking up.”
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