thread of loving key and peele

i can't watch amy schumer for some reason. she bugs me.

when lincoln tells ilana that he slept with someone else and she makes him go over the details outside his car and jumps on it a la michael jackson and then gives him a penis kiss...man, that scene was a tour de force. and so expertly choreographed. just watched it last night. WAY better scene than i've seen in a movie comedy in forever.

and when abbi imitates ilana at the co-op? don't get me started...

make us laugh itt within the next 15 mins

Knock Knock

there was a trailer for a movie exactly like this one that ran before keanu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=921UzgGkcVw

except it was not a comedy. (but this wasn't exactly a comedy either)

i got a trailer for a movie that looked like Gone Girl. lady on a train or something? it looked like a lifetime movie. and an ed & lorraine warren brit amityville movie. hadn't thought about the warrens in a while.

considering they basically made this in 6 months I think this is a good sign for them

make us laugh itt within the next 15 mins

― Neanderthal, Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:19 PM (1 hour ago)

i feel you, i DO comedy LIVE at least once a week, and try to write once a day, and it is hard AF
it just seems like comedy movies don't happen very often and don't happen well when they do? like if you look at the whole HISTORY OF MOVIES how often a great one is a comedy is like...*shrug?* i would probably rate super troopers as the last great one??

think some comedy screenwriters fall into the trap of writing for the joke instead of just coming up with a great premise and letting the shit congeal organically. like Ghostbusters.

also otm about Super Troopers being dope

Saw the film tonight. Good, not great. Gets tangled up in parts, and too much time is spent involving George Michael jokes. Still worth seeing.

Also, yeah, there were WAY more New Jack City refs in this than I think anyone could have predicted.

all their sketches now on CC new site
http://www.hitfix.com/the-dartboard/comedy-central-launches-ultimate-destination-for-all-key-peele-sketches

http://www.cc.com/shows/key-and-peele/video-guide

Keanu is pretty terrific

Someone help me understand this trailer for Jordan Peele's Get Out

Looks intense.

Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams, Girls), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener, Captain Phillips) and Dean (Bradley Whitford, The Cabin in the Woods). At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRfnevzM9kQ

looks awesome.

^^^

no surprise given how well produced and thought-out the Halloween episodes of this show were

rotten tomatoes interviewed Peele about this march 2015

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/key-and-peele-star-talks-about-his-upcoming-horror-movie/

Very interesting!

I kinda hate Allison Williams but have to admit this looks p great

ya will see this

will be disappointed if Allison Williams doesn't get murdered somewhere along the line

so down for this

This looks awesome.

(shame the trailer is practically giving away the complete film tbh)

^^^i was expecting a tease, but its really spoilery

I hadn't given his music any thought in years, but the - I think genuinely felt - tribute in the movie Keanu reminded me that, yeah, the guy had a bunch of great songs.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, December 26, 2016 12:29 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

watched this in lieu of any other xmassy movie - a fitting tribute indeed

also a p funny film

I've never seen their show.

In conjunction with his horror film, Peele's programmed a series of 'social thrillers' at BAM's movie theater in Brooklyn, including among all the scary movies Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/jordan-peele

Not esp interested in his work as he was mega-kissing Obama's ass on NPR -- disqualifies him as a satirist.

oh brother

Get Out looks great tbh

super hyped

I couldn't sit through all of Keanu but this looks much better

It looks so good...and features my new favorite actor, Keith Stanfield aka Darious from Atlanta.

And Morbs, despite loving Obama, the show was often hilarious. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner I assume is being shown because his new movie is a like a horror version of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

I almost wonder if K&P only got picked up for a second season because of Obama's 2012 victory. At the time Obama & Luther was their most famous sketch and the show was too high budget for the audience they got, and CC is famous for cancelling shows like that.

the show was not great - occasionally really funny but only occasionally

I have a higher opinion. Enough classic skits for me.

I almost wonder if K&P only got picked up for a second season because of Obama's 2012 victory. At the time Obama & Luther was their most famous sketch and the show was too high budget for the audience they got, and CC is famous for cancelling shows like that.

― frogbs, Tuesday, February 21, 2017 1:31 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the show did well online - i.e. youtube videos of sketches - and was kept going because of this online popularity.

i thought it was a great sketch show, would struggle to think of a recent sketch show that comes near it tbh

keegan is apparently in shane black's new predator movie

yup, it's filming, he's one of the main cast

huge picture http://i0.wp.com/ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/shane-black-predator.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2700px%2C1800px&resize=2000%2C1333&ssl=1

xxxp yeah that makes sense too. cherrypicking stuff on YouTube is generally the way to do it because most episodes would have one or two sketches that fell flat. and as mentioned the good stuff is really really good. in fact that's what often made the show disappointing since there are some sketches where you just think, "c'mon, you guys are better than this". that said the hit/miss ratio is a lot higher than any other sketch show I can think of, outside of maybe SNL from a zillion years ago

K&P's sketches mostly followed a similar formula (something slightly ridiculous gradually escalates until it is the most ridiculous thing of all time), but the attention to detail in the costumes/production, the sharp writing, and the way that K&P would throw themselves into their characters elevated the show into a quality sketch show.

it's a similar formula but I feel like K&P took that idea a lot further than any other American sketch show I can name. the series finale callback to the first episode was pretty brilliant, in retrospect

agreed - their h/m ratio was staggeringly good compared to like 99% of sketch comedy shows - even Chappelle's Show - and their highs were really high. the great production/direction helped a lot too ofc

That formula was SOOO consistent too, but gave some great classics like "I Said Biiiiitch" and the one where they order soul food.

But there's also some greatly absurd stuff like continental breakfast.

My friend got to act w/Key in ad shot in Houston during the Super Bowl. She said he was really awesome and nice.

with his first film, he’s already an American Buñuel.
-Richard Brody

get out is v good and i should probably start a thread about it

yes plz