Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 185 of Awards Chatter, The Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the smartest and

funniest people in show business. He's one half of the comedy team Key and Peel which was at the center of an Emmy-winning sketch show of the same name on Comedy Central from 2012 through 2015.

And more recently, he wrote and directed Get Out, a 4.5 million dollar film that released in February, gross

more than $250 million worldwide, and remains the most critically acclaimed film of 2017 so

far. Jordan Peel.

Over the course of our conversation at the offices of the Hollywood reporter,

the 38-year-old and I discussed a wide range of topics.

Among them, how being biracial impacted his sense of identity as a child.

What prompted him to drop out of college in New York and move to Chicago to pursue comedy and

how that eventually led him to a job at Mad TV. Why in 2008 he received and had to decline

and offer to realize his ultimate dream of appearing on Saturday Night Live and how that

gut punch shaped what he did next, how he and Keegan Michael Key first began working together and wound up

co-creating, co-writing, and co-starring on a show that dealt with social issues,

particularly race in America, as humorously and powerfully

as anything on TV.

What inspired him, starting long before even Key and Peel, to write a screenplay about being

an outsider and how that evolved into a horror

satire about a black man meeting his white girlfriend's family with him

directing it for a major studio and the resulting film being released into

America just as racial tensions

were at their worst in years with a white man replacing his president the

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