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The Treatment

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele: Key & Peele

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele talk about the intersection of code-switching and comedy, and how the internet is changing their definition of success.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

0:14.9

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. We've had a lot of great shows this year, Tom Stup Hart, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Sarah Polly.

0:21.2

But the most excitement I've got from anybody is when I said, I'm going to have

0:24.8

Key and Peele come into the show. So let me introduce Keegan Michael Key and Jordan

0:29.3

Peel. They're key and Peele. See, now I get to say it the way you guys say.

0:31.7

There you go. I'm such fans, you guys, just for Matt TV. And one of the differences between this show, I think, is that in every Matt TV sketch,

0:37.5

it's almost like you had to declaim

0:38.6

what the sketch was in the first line.

0:41.2

And the first season of the show, especially,

0:43.4

the episodes were so packed,

0:44.8

but also you was sort of treating more like,

0:47.1

we have to show we can play characters.

0:48.6

That really felt like the motivation, the incentive,

0:51.5

is that we have to establish ourselves as commerce actors. Is that what the show was for you guys?

0:55.7

Yeah, I think we wrapped the whole everything around the show and the fact that we love to be

1:00.8

chameleons.

1:01.4

We love to play things real.

1:03.6

And, you know, after so many years on Matt TV, which, you know, had its real high points

1:08.4

and, you know, it's not so high points of doing the wink wink

1:11.4

nudge and hey we're doing comedy we're doing hey we're doing comedy you know it's like well

1:16.5

all right what's our dream show well you know we're improvisers we're used to playing on bare stages

1:20.8

so let's get everything looking film it let's get everything and let's do the emotional justice

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