

K: The idea for the majority of the writing process was that Mr. There were a couple of different ways we were thinking about going about it - one of which we almost did - but this seemed like the right way to do it. We were searching for it through the entire writing process. P: It was really in the final hour of planning the new season. K: What advantages would that school have that inner city schools don't get? really goes back to the difference between the cultures of an inner city school and a more privileged school in the suburbs.
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It was very, very difficult for us to figure out how to do it. But when you bring someone back, you want to make sure it's not just a cookie-cutter, by-the-numbers version of the original sketch, where you have the exact same gag with different names. P: We wanted to bring that character back because people fell in love with him. Let's talk about the sequel to the original "Substitute Teacher" sketch, which aired in last week's premiere. P: It became a feeding frenzy for the writers at a certain point. How did you decide on those specific names? Were there any that didn't make the cut? Garvey to mispronounce: Jacqueline, Blake, Aaron. The sketch hinges on having the perfect names for Mr.

Just to give him a spice of "haggardness." We also gave me a little bit of age around my eyes and under my nose. And then his mustache, to me, looked like a mustache that a substitute teacher might have. I wanted his tie to be short, but not too short. He's wearing a short-sleeve shirt and a really ratty, terrible tie, and has a receding hairline, to give him some age. He had spent 20 years disciplining these children in the inner city to no end - so he has this kind of hard, rigid sensibility about him, and I wanted that to be in his dress. I didn't want him to actually be from the military - I just wanted him to have that sense. K: I wanted him to look a little high-and-tight, you know? As if he had been in the military. Garvey's appearance? It's such a distinctive look. Once you had the core concept for the sketch down, how did you decide on Mr. You can see that Jordan has the voice for it." Or, "Keegan has the voice for it."

Usually, Jordan or I will hook into one of those lines, and then you can see the writer go, "This is good. Key & Peele Season 5 is scheduled to debut this July on Comedy Central, and you can bet we’ll be seeing more and more of both of them as they continue to gain recognition.K: In our pitch sessions - when ideas are forming - it could be me, or Jordan, or an executive producer, or one of the other writers adding lines to the concept. Additionally, they have Keanu, about a pair of friends who infiltrate a drug dealing ring in order to retrieve a stolen cat, set to film soon (That idea also sounds like one of their sketches). They’ve been writing a script for a new Police Academy project, and though they may not appear in the film, they are serving as producers.
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They’re teaming up with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps production banner, which has a pair of recent hit comedies under its belt in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, so hopefully they’ll be able to keep things on track.Īs their series continues to grow in popularity, Key and Peele are in higher and higher demand.

Rich Talarico and Alex Rubens, writers and co-producers on Key & Peele, are handling the script, and are presumably going to try to avoid the pitfalls of previous sketch expansions.
