'Key & Peele' to end after this season
Key & Peele are having the last laugh.
Sketch comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele will wrap their Comedy Central series after its current season, the network confirmed to Paste BN.
The news broke on Twitter Saturday when Peele tweeted an article from The Wrap announcing the departure.
"This is our final season — and it's not because of Comedy Central, it's us," Key told the entertainment site. "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."
Peele also teased the duo's new movie, Keanu, expected out next year, while Key took a moment to thank and retweet fans.
Key & Peele kicked off its fifth season earlier this month and will air eight more episodes before it signs off. Riffing on race, society and African-American culture, the Peabody Award-winning sketch show first went viral in 2012 with its send-up of President Obama (played by Peele), who requires an "anger translator" in order to express his emotions. Key recreated the sketch with the president himself at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April.