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The Business

Keegan-Michael Key on 'Key & Peele,' Flipping Expectations

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Writer and comedian Keegan-Michael Key shares why he and Jordan Peele have opted to go the "British route" and end their Comedy Central show Key & Peele at the height of its popularity. 

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center.

0:02.9

Every week join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and Me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories,

0:08.7

from ISIS to the U.S. economy to this 47 candidate presidential election we're having.

0:13.7

You can find Left, Right, and Center on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:17.7

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine, filling in for Kim

0:23.0

Masters, and this is the business.

0:25.7

It's just kind of the way we see the world.

0:28.8

So if that was the prism, then so be it.

0:31.7

We didn't think to say, let's get out there and change the world.

0:36.5

Kegan Michael Key and his comedy partner, Jordan Peel, tackle everything from race relations

0:41.0

to gay marriage to women's rights on their Emmy-nominated Comedy Central show, Key and Peel.

0:46.0

They've broken new social ground in the sketch comedy world, but their main goal, just to be funny.

0:51.7

The series ends its five-season run in September, and Key tells us why they opted

0:55.5

to quit their show at the height of its popularity. But first, on the news banter, Universal has a

1:00.5

stellar summer at the box office thanks to Straight Outta Compton. Stay tuned. It's the business from

1:05.3

KCRW. I am joined by my podcast co-host, Joe Adalian, the West Coast editor of vulture.com, and he hosts with me the spin-off on KCRW.com. Hello, Joe.

1:20.8

Hello, Michael. So straight out of Compton, you know, some folks were surprised that this turned into a mega hit. I wasn't. I kind of thought that the marketing was pretty savvy.

1:30.3

There are a lot of folks who grew up with NWA, the group that's depicted in the movie, that kind of want to see the origin story of this landmark band.

1:39.2

And they seem to do everything right, and it is paid off at the box office.

1:43.4

Yeah, absolutely.

1:44.0

I mean, the movie hit a sweet spot in that it appeals to both

1:46.4

millennials and Gen Xers and, you know, tied to the fact that you're also at Dr. Dre,

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