thread of loving key and peele

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

I know taking a concept and stretching it way beyond the breaking point is these guys thing but damn did that two old ladies in church sketch go farther than I could've possibly imagined. Went from "I hope this ends soon" to "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON" real fast

that family matters sketch was hilar

i have never watched this before, didn't even know what it was, turned on the tv in a hotel at random and saw the "old ladies in church" sketch, holy crow, how have i never encountered this insanity before

i mean good insanity by the way

i liked the steampunk sketch the other week as well

http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/100512000615/loving-this-conversation-in-case-you-missed-it

oh my god the ending to this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_eJ-zdLrA

the punchline to the slap-ass revisited sketch almost killed me

I don't think there will ever be a sketch I love more than one that has an impersonation of the coke head in die hard that calls out the insanity of how family matters evolved

I am forever in their debt for it

as did that xp

the punchline to the slap-ass revisited sketch almost killed me

yeah I'm cracking up just thinking about it

i haven't found anything they've done in two episodes funny; this is completely missing me now

They're v inconsistent. And prone to running jokes into the ground.

They're increasingly hit and miss for sure

They definitely are, though I've rewatched some old episodes and found I liked a some of 'em way more the second time around. There are a lot of funny moments and great lines that they don't pause for. Also they tend to base a lot of sketches on kind of obscure tropes or insignificant tropes.

They're v inconsistent. And prone to running jokes into the ground.

Well the second part is what I love about them, they come out the other side sometimes and taking things a few steps further than any other comedy show would is kinda their thing. If nothing else they really know how to end a sketch which is really lacking in a lot of sketch comedy (see: like 80% of all SNL skits)

The ending of the mattress skit is good, but what really gets me is when the sales guy goes to shake the customer's hand and the customer just sticks out his finger. It's a tiny moment in an otherwise pretty OTT skit but it's those tiny moments that make me love the show.

I wish there were an occasion for me to yell at someone, "I've done more cocaine than you WEIGH, motherfucker!"