Key and Peele are so over

The Comedy Central show Key & Peele, an absurdist sketch comedy that has become known for recurring skits like one in which an “anger translator” expresses emotions on President Obama’s behalf, will end after its current season. Speaking to the online entertainment journal TheWrap, one of the show’s stars, Keegan-Michael Key, said that it was time for him and his co-star, Jordan Peele, “to explore other things, together and apart.” Key & Peele premiered on the network in 2012 and won a Peabody Award in 2013 for its “inspired satirical riffs on our racially divided and racially conjoined culture.” The show, currently in its fifth season, received seven Emmy nominations this year, including a nod for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. Both comedians are biracial and much of their comedy is given to exploring, mocking, and confounding racial stereotypes. In accepting the show’s Peabody Award, Mr. Key expressly thanked the network for allowing Key & Peele to tell a diverse set of stories. “We’d like to thank Comedy Central for giving us the opportunity to show the African-American experience as not a monolith, because it’s not,” he said. “It’s so many different stories and the danger of the world sometimes is trying to assign a single story to an entire group of people.” Mr. Key and Mr. Peele met as improv comedians in Chicago and performed together for five seasons on the Fox show “Mad TV.” Aside from starring on Key & Peele, both were executive producers and lead writers. Mr. Key told TheWrap that they plan to continue collaborating. “We might make a movie and then do our own thing for three years and then come back and do another movie,” he said. “There’s lots of stuff we have cooking up.” That's cool. Inside Amy Schumer is a much better show any day, and not because she's white - it's because she's actually funny.