WASHINGTON — Key & Peele, the comedy duo best known in the mainstream for their “Luther the Anger Translator” skit and several seasons worth of crafty satires tackling racial issues and American culture, will not be renewing their popular television series after this year, according to an interview with TheWrap.
As Mashable said Sunday, “we’re not laughing.”
The last season of “Key & Peele” just received multiple nominations this month. But Keegan-Michael Key and co-creator Jordan Peele told TheWrap on Friday that “it’s not because of Comedy Central, it’s us,” said Key. “It 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. And they have a lot on their plates: They recently shot the comedy “Keanu,” co-written by Peele and directed by frequent “Key & Peele” director Peter Atencio. Also in the works, a 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:
