thread of loving key and peele

it put a nice bow on the whole thing but i'd hardly call it a brilliant twist

i just wish they hadn't flashed back through earlier parts of the sketch to drive the joke home. i just thought it was brilliant because it was one of those sort of reversal-of-fortune twist endings that happens to make no sense whatsoever

the cat poster sketch was one of the ones that made me think 'damn they're really running on fumes here' like one of them had this idea for a usual suspects skit that they've had in a notebook since 1996 and madtv never went for it and its like finally the ball is in my court, comedy world

i loved the cat poster sketch. usual suspects parodies in 2013 rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM

so good

last couple of eps have been a major downer for me as either reused skits and characters take center stage or the skits just fail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3h6es6zh1c
as always, don't read the comments

when someone brought up to me "man, they, do a lot of gay jokes, don't they?" i was ignoring it for a while, but...

the ending of the skit above where flamboyant gay man says "oh i'm not persecuted, I'm just an asshole" and then exaggeratedly licks a massive candy schlong is not particularly defensible

I'm on board with these guys in general but there is something a little off, like they rely too heavily on certain tropes/approaches in a way that seems basically conservative - a midway point between Mr. Show and Dave Chapelle without ever going quite as far as either.

where did these guys come from? were they doing their own individual things (standup, improv etc) prior to this? they seem to have come out of nowhere

mad tv i thought?

re: production quality - http://www.studiodaily.com/2013/12/getting-the-many-looks-of-key-and-peele/

last couple of eps have been a major downer for me as either reused skits and characters take center stage or the skits just fail

every episode so far has had one sketch that I absolutely love but I can definitely agree with this. lately it seems like a lot of these sketches are just vehicles for odd one-liners.

The best skit show going (damning with faint praise I know). I like it better than Chapelle's Show (which had a lot of weak bits,) way better than "Whitest Kids" and miles better than those new dudes Bob Odenkirk sponsors. They can get just as weird as Tim & Eric and their acolytes but with the added benefit of actually being funny.

agreed

yeah I find it funny that a lot of the online ads for it emphasize "hey, this is on TV, you don't have to just watch it on Youtube", even though it really is the perfect show for Youtube viewing, since a lot of these sketches are well worth watching multiple times and I don't think they've done an episode of all good ones yet (in my opinion of course)

they're probably getting a minuscule amount of money from YouTube ads... but this is honestly one of the few sketch shows out there that has a > 50% hit rate on their half hours, for the most part, difficult enough task as it is

kinda reminds me of Big Train (at least the first season), which was 25% absolutely hilarious, 50% interesting (if not laugh-out-loud funny), and 25% total dud

where K&P excel is that even if you don't really like the joke, there's something else to appreciate. the one where they're two jazz musicians constantly trying to one-up each other (or the funk band that was just spouting nonsense about garbage and food) weren't necessarily all that funny to me but they were shot and acted out so well that I really enjoyed them anyway.

^thanks for the tip on the jazz duel, i had not seen that one and i love it deeply.

speaking of this one is really funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUiA4blvQPQ

pussy on the chainwax redeemed by the too emotional zag when i assumed a zig was coming and the "coming to a conversation near you" graphic because i feel fairly certain i am gonna hear someone say that shortly.

dog park skit was perfect, really hit all the dog park marks

yeah, i agree

ok i keep thinking about "potato, potato" and losing my shit.

this is probably the most lean, polished sketch show that has ever existed

otm

like the more i watch this, the more i realize that these two guys have more sketch chops than anyone working today outside of kate mckinnon. the fact that they can both be on the same show is kind of unbelievable.

props of course to these dudes but i wonder how much of this is due to being able to do pre-recorded segments with production standards that would've been insanely cost-prohibitive even five years ago. say what you will about the lonely island dudes, they afaik were the first to really do the whole high-end production w/low-brow humor thing.

part of what makes so many of their skits work is that they are on-location and not on chintzy soundstages. and not playing to a studio audience tamps down the tendency to go super broad and lowest common denominator.

the continental breakfast sketch plays out in my head more or less every time I eat breakfast in this hotel :D

i wanna eat a banana sideways

first S4 sketch came out yesterday and it's hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWO1pkHgrBM

nearly 400k views in less than 24 hours. amazing

really psyched for this

with october approaching, I am having very fond memories of their halloween episode

:D

'ahh, the pit of the donut. thank you, Turkey' and 'like GoGurt but to stay' probably make me laugh harder than any other lines delivered on television.

that might be one of the 3 or 4 best tv comedy sketches ever

the one sufjan is referring to

it pretty much changed the entire hotel experience for me

ya see above

'like GoGurt but to stay'

hahahaha, I was walking down the street this morning thinking about this line

still knocking it out of the park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niL0a8U1T-A

omg that was amazing.

did all of that stuff actually happen in Family Matters?

the plots that they reference, that is

S8E1
"Steve, Stefan and the Winslow family spends a vacation at Paris with his Urk-Pad after accidentally sending Carl in place of cheese to his pen pal, Nicole. All is not well when they first arrive, Eddie accidentally damages the café that his parents were eating at and is forced to work there to pay off the damages. Then Nicole is blackmailed by her opportunist cousin, Gilbert to get the plans of the Urk-Pad. Meanwhile Stefan looks to Steve and asks him to help him build his family tree (per Laura's recommendation). The nerd not only helps him build his using the Urkel family tree, but he also admitted that he created Stefan for a lot of things he wanted to be in his life. Stefan admitted that he wasn't a smart guy, but does come close."

the Urk-Pad is a teleportation device of Steve's invention. He also invented a time machine, a cloning machine, a Transformation Chamber, and more. They're not exaggerating in the sketch, no.

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140316093142/familymatters/images/7/7d/Urkelbot.jpg

i always laugh at their stuff but also find myself wishing they were funnier :(

damn, I must have blocked these Family Matters episodes from memory

i had no idea about any of that weird family matters stuff