Key And Peele Make Time’s Most 100 Influential People List

key-and-peele-keegan-michael-key-jordan-peele-time-100-featThey are two of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2014. Or do they just count as one? Anyway, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have made this year’s list. Labeled as “the new faces of funny”, Key and Peele were called “crazy funny” by Judd Apatow who wrote about them for Time. Apatow also wrote about working together with the former MADtv cast members who have found a home on Comedy Central.

He wrote, “I don’t laugh out loud much anymore. I have seen way too much comedy, and one might say I am dead inside. But Key and Peele make me laugh — hard. These guys are crazy funny. They are smart, satirical, ridiculous, pointless, political, subversive, immature and important all at the same time. They know what they are doing and are ready for their moment.

I’m equally impressed by their friendship. These two men seem amazed and grateful to have found each other. And they come alive when kicking around ideas, in perfect sync, offering ways to build and expand each other’s premises. It is a wonder to behold.

We are writing a screenplay together, and I hope one day we make a movie. But regardless, every time I leave a meeting with them, I feel like I have been a part of something very special. It is comedy and love dancing together, and it is the best of the human race. (I think I went too far — but they are funny.)”

 

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