WASHINGTON — Key & Peele, the comedy duo best known in the mainstream for their “Luther the聽Anger Translator” skit and several seasons worth of crafty satires聽tackling racial issues and American culture, will not be renewing their popular television series after this year, according to an interview with TheWrap.
As said Sunday, “we’re not laughing.”
The last聽season of 鈥淜ey & Peele鈥� 聽just received multiple nominations this month. But聽聽Keegan-Michael Key and co-creator Jordan Peele told on Friday that “it’s聽not because of Comedy Central, it鈥檚 us,鈥� said Key. 鈥淚t was just time for us to explore other things, together and apart. I compare it to Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. We might make a movie and then do our own thing for three years and then come back and do another movie.”
The current and fifth season of the sketch comedy series, which has already been filmed, began on July 8 and will run into September.
Their skits get mad play online so it won’t be as though the pair will fall off the face of earth. 聽And they have a lot on their plates:聽They recently shot the comedy 鈥淜eanu,鈥� co-written by Peele and directed by frequent 鈥淜ey & Peele鈥� director Peter Atencio. Also in the works, a聽聽reboot of “Police Academy.”
For a fix, there’s always “Luther’s” appearance with the real President Obama, at this year’s Washington Correspondents’ Dinner:
