![]() It might have been also that he wanted - and I'm speaking - this is all supposition - that he might have wanted a clean break from "Key And Peele" at that particular moment in time and really put his stamp on that project. And in this - with this particular project, his vision did not necessarily include my physical presence in the film. KEY: I don't - you know, I don't know why I wasn't in it. And I'm like, I guess that means my spirit was in the movie. It says - you know, it'll say uncredited or cameo by Keegan-Michael Key. Isn't that funny? I see that sometimes in the credits. GROSS: I don't remember you having a small part in that. And he had been doing all of that - actually starting during the MADtv times, all the way into "Key And Peele." And so he was raring to go when we had finished the show. He had had different amalgamations of the script in his mind, and he kept on rewriting it and rewriting it and rewriting it. KEY: Yeah, he had been working on it for about eight years. GROSS: Oh, so he was already working on that. And Jordan was immersed in "Get Out" at the time. We just didn't know what the project would be. And we knew that we would work together again sometime soon. GROSS: But you were still on good terms with each other? But we both felt very strongly that there were other things that we wanted to do, and so we decided to move on. And we were like, yeah, we could probably continue to do this for six years or seven years or maybe even eight years. It just felt like we wanted to move on to other things. They just - there's always a kind of - with me and Jordan, there was a natural ending. In the U.K., very often when they do series or - of television shows, what they do is they only do them for three years or four years or five years, and then they stop the series. ![]() We wanted to get really British about the whole thing, if you know what I mean, you know? GROSS: So what happened? Like, did you and Jordan Peele decide to end the series, or was it ended by Comedy Central? I think we spoke right before the last episode. When we spoke, "Key And Peele" the TV series was ending. GROSS: So let me start with kind of where we left off. So that's why you can be on the show without breaking the guidelines. ![]() You're not here to talk about a movie or TV series. GROSS: And let me explain your presence on the show. And so it's been - it's just - it's a new landscape that we're dealing with. And, yeah, so - but this is the first time in a very long time that the writers and the actors struck at the same time. That would have been, gosh, 2007, I think. KEY: Yes, I was on MADtv at that point in time. You were doing the MAD show during the previous actor's strike, right? I think the last time we spoke was when "Key And Peele" ended the series on Comedy Central. Keegan-Michael Key, welcome back to FRESH AIR. And they've adapted that into the new book "The History Of Sketch Comedy." He hosted the podcast "The History Of Sketch Comedy," which he wrote with his wife, Elle Key. Now Key has returned to sketch comedy by writing about it. He made his Broadway debut in a show written by Steve Martin called "Meteor Shower" and played Horatio in the New York Public Theater production of "Hamlet," which starred Oscar Isaac as Hamlet. Peele went on to direct the films "Get Out," "Us" and "Nope." Key went on to act in films, including a comedy about improv and sketch comedy called "Don't Think Twice." He co-stars in the TV series "Schmigadoon!" a great show that lovingly satirizes Broadway musicals. When the series ended, Key and Peele split up as a duo. With Jordan Peele, he was half of the sketch comedy duo Key and Peele, which was also the name of their show on Comedy Central. My guest, Keegan-Michael Key, loves sketch comedy - watching it, performing it and now writing about it.
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