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Key and Peele has been renewed for a second season on Comedy Central. Maybe now the writers will finally wise up and hire Vandaveon and Mike.

Comedy Central had a great night in the ratings, with 3 million viewers for the season premiere of Tosh.0 and 2 million for the first episode of Key and Peele. One might say they're really hitting those Key demographics. Then one might shoot oneself.

Comedy Central’s newest sketch series, Key and Peele, premieres tonight. The show is the creation of Mad TV alumni Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. I should acknowledge a bias — a friend of mine, Peter Atencio directed the show’s first season. OK, now on on to the facts: Key and Peele is truly one of the most original, subversive and howl-inducing shows I’ve seen in the last decade. It’s a smart and robust sketch series that that manages to satirize politics, movies, black culture, and white culture, without condescension or pandering to one group. In all truth, it may be that I find the show so sensational because I [...]

Key and Peele's Keegan-Michael Key visited Conan last night to drop some knowledge from his time at mime grad school. Glomming, vacuuming up acid, pole-centered undulating: the object work fun never ends! Until it does end, when the clip is over, and the show goes to a commercial break. Nothing lasts forever, not even pretend shotgun fights.

Last night's premiere of Key and Peele is available online here, if you missed it. Or if you're just looking for a way to end the workday in high spirits without, you know, doing your job.

Sketch comedy is on the rise! This article highlights some popular purveyors of the form, from the internet's Harvard Sailing Team to UCB's Stone Cold Fox to Comedy Central's new show Key and Peele. And it details some interesting issues facing sketchmakers: the pressure to be concise, the balance between actors and writers, and the possibility (or impossibility) or audience interaction. But wait! A last-minute twist ending: It doesn't detail any of those interesting issues! This whole post was a comedy sketch! (I am just kidding. It does detail them.)

Mostly everyone enjoyed the premiere of Key and Peele, but TSA employees and aspiring comedy writers Vandaveon Huggins and Mike Taylor could have enjoyed it more. Not that they didn't enjoy it. But it could have used some samurai. That's all they're saying. This web bonus is a clever move, letting Key and Peele anticipate criticism (from the powerful pro-dragon contingent, especially) and simultaneously provide more content for online audiences. Yo, you got a dick in your suitcase?

We've heard from the director of Key and Peele, now to hear from the writers and stars. Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele talked in this interview about approaching comedy from between the worlds of black and white culture, impersonating Obama, and most importantly, dick and poop jokes. Says Key:

I learned at Second City years ago that there’s really not much to be done about the fact that we still live in this intrinsic, puritanical society. And when you say poop, people laugh. And the reason they laugh? Because they’re not allowed to talk about it. It’s such a powerful thing. Everybody goes to their office [...]