Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. We've got a very special lineup for you today, three of the great actors in film and television, all of them recorded live at the New Yorker Festival.

Now, later in the hour, we've got Jeremy Irons and John Goodman.

But let's begin with Keegan Michael Key, who's best known for his collaboration with Jordan Peel.

Their sketch show,

Key and Peel, ran five seasons on Comedy Central and won a Peabody Award. One sketch, already a classic, starts off in the mode of gritty realism, with a black man provoked and arrested by a white

cop for no reason at all.

Look, there is no reason for you to get upset, sir.

I'm not. I'm not.

All right, that's it.

Put your hands on your head.

Put your hands on your head.

The officer shoves him in the back of the car so hard that his head smacks on the doorframe and he's knocked out cold.

Get in the car.

Duck your head.

And like a Black Lives Matter version of the Wizard of Oz, he comes to in a candy-colored

fantasy musical.

Where are we?

Just be patient and I'll show you.

Your suit change.

Follow me to a place I know and there ain't no pain, ain't no sorrow.

It's a place to be if your skin is brown.

I'm talking about Negro Town.

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