'Key & Peele' is the best sketch comedy show, and you'll never change my mind
Is it me or is Pluto TV showing unreleased skits with Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele?
Writer’s note on May 1, 2026: I wrote this before I saw the Outkast skit. That flute album I listened to a zillion times is even more entertaining with me imagining the pinwheel. I’ve added the Outkast skit as a sixth underrated video.
ORIGINAL POST DATE: April 15, 2026
I was sure I’d seen every episode of “Key & Peele” and watched the Obama Translator ones multiple times, but Pluto TV makes me wonder if some episodes of the five-season sketch comedy show never released. I thought it was just me until the Bald Brothers podcast said the same thing, and I read it multiple times on Bluesky.
Sketch comedy shows often have a few notable characters and a couple of shareable skits, but I’ve never seen any other sketch comedy show (minus the first season of “A Black Lady Sketch Show”) that I enjoyed from beginning to end and wanted to watch the entire episode all over again. And even when there were scenes I liked from other shows (ex. “In Living Color”), they’d now be too outdated to really get the joke — without overexplaining.
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“Key & Peele” aired from 2012 to 2015, and the majority of the episodes from those three years are still funny a decade later. When Dave Chapelle claimed the two comedic actors “stole his show,” I raised an eyebrow because I absolutely never let out more than a chuckle at Chapelle’s show. And when I did actually laugh, it was 100% because of the late Charlie Murphy.
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Every blue moon, “Saturday Night Live” will do something that’ll tickle me, but I can count those moments on one hand — out of 51 seasons. But “Key & Peele” managed to nail every single episode, and it’s glorious to be able to watch it all over again on Pluto TV. Viewers already know the big moments that got all the blogs, news moments and White House Correspondents Dinner jokes, but here are the six moments on “Key & Peele” that personally left me giggling and playing it back that I don’t remember seeing when the show first aired.
6 of the most underrated “Key & Peele” skits
1. Bone Thugs-N-Homeless
In elementary school, I had a pen pal from Toledo, Ohio, who was a huge fan of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and would’ve absolutely not found this funny. I would’ve just had to hide my face if I was watching this with him because I was highly entertained, and they had no business actually harmonizing this well too! The guy cleaning an imaginary window did me in. After seeing Bizzy Bone on “Verzuz,” I hope he could laugh about something like this now ‘cause it’s a 50/50 chance he’s ready to fight when anybody starts cracking jokes. I’m sorry. I laughed. Hard.
2. If Civil War Reenactments Were Honest
You will never make me think Civil War reenactments, plantation weddings or plantation sorority photos are anything but delusional and racist. Imagine if Black people said they wanted to reenact Nat Turner’s Rebellion. You laughing yet? Yup, didn’t think so. (We haven’t seen much of Nate Parker since 2016 either.) Surprisingly, this skit did make me laugh — mainly because of the ending.
3. Is This Country Song Racist?
No, Luke Bryan, Beyonce wasn’t shunned from the country music industry because she wouldn’t “hang out with you all.” Kudos to the Chicks (formerly known as the Dixie Chicks) for performing “Daddy Lessons” at the CMA Awards with her — and for Bey doubling down with “Country Carter.” (I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve watched Beyonce Bowl or listened to the Chicks “March” song.) As someone who went through a country music phase for a full year (mainly listening to Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley and Jerrod Niemann), there were definitely some songs I skipped — and they sounded a wee bit like this “Key & Peele” skit.
4. Soldier’s Homecoming
I am clearly not a veteran, so I would never do this. But I’m not saying I would not not do this — if I was. But I’m not. I’m just a Black Girl In a Doggone World.
5. Gay Wedding Advice
When Isiah Whitlock Jr. passed away, “The Wire” fans all said “shheeeeeeeeit” out of love. We yelled out “Omar coming” when news was announced that Michael Kenneth Williams passed away. But I was speechless when Lance Reddick died. Reddick fans know him for his more serious roles on the HBO series, as Wesley McDonald “Mac” Holder in the 2024 “Shirley” film, Kareem X in “One Night in Miami” and maybe Oscar Griffin in “New York Undercover.” But I forgot he was on comedy shows like “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” the insurance man on “Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious” and this ridiculously funny skit about gay weddings on “Key & Peele.”
6. Why You’ll Never Get that Outkast Reunion
I have absolutely no clue what bird seed smells like, but I have definitely spent childhood days having the time of my life with a pinwheel. Outside. Not in a coffee shop.
Clearly, there are more funny moments. Enjoy them with me on Philo TV!
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