Just as a lot of people seemed to find out how incredibly rad the Key & Peele show is, they’ve gone ahead and announced that this upcoming fifth season will be their last. They made their announcement in an interview with The Wrap, where Keegan-Michael Key said:
This is our final season – and it’s not because of Comedy Central, it’s us. It was just time for us to explore other things, together and apart. I compare it to Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. We might make a movie and then do our own thing for three years and then come back and do another movie.
I’m thinking we could do that every three years – take a year, go bang out a movie. That’s the plan right now.
That almost sounds like a breakup announcement. Ugh. But really, that sounds totally fair. It’s always better to call it quits when you know you should. That’s way better than trying to make something work long after it’s broken. If this is what they need to do to keep that creative spark they each brought to one of the funniest shows on TV, then so be it. We can totally respect that.
When pressed about what their future might bring, Key shared a bit and said:
We’re doing the reboot of Police Academy, and there’s a TV show in the works that me might do for Comedy Central. There’s lots of stuff we have cooking up.
Okay if a Police Academy reboot is what we get for giving up Key & Peele, then that is fine by us. How do y’all feel about this?
(via A.V. Club)
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