Keegan-Michael Key On Why He & Jordan Peele “Don’t See Each Other” Much After ‘Key & Peele’
deadline.comAlthough their comedic chemistry is undeniable, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele‘s careers have gone in different directions.
Nearly a decade after their Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele ended, Key admitted that he and his former onscreen partner “don’t see each other that often anymore” amid their busy lives on opposite coasts. “Which is, to me, a tragedy,” he told People, noting that “your lives start to evolve and move in different directions.” After the duo first appeared together on Fox’s Mad TV in 2004, they landed their own self-titled show on Comedy Central, which ran for five seasons from 2012 to 2015.
The series earned them an Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2016. Key and Peele also appeared together in 2016’s Keanu, which was co-written by Peele.
Additionally, they’ve voiced characters together in Storks (2016), Toy Story 4 (2019) and Wendell & Wild (2022). Key explained, “Our evolution, I think, is tied to both of what our desires are.
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