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Sketch Anatomy: Phil Augusta Jackson Breaks Down 'Key and Peele's "Alien Imposters"

by | October 9th, 2014

Welcome to our column Sketch Anatomy, where we ask some of our favorite television writers to choose any sketch — one they personally wrote or one from history they find particularly hilarious, notable, or underappreciated — to learn from a writer's perspective what separates a successful sketch from the rest.

For this week's installment of Sketch Anatomy we spoke with UCB grad and The Chris Gethard Show's resident poet Phil Augusta Jackson, who was recently hired as a writer on Comedy Central's Key and Peele and also joined the writing staff of NBC's upcoming comedy Mission Control. Jackson took us behind the scenes of his very first [...]

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'Key and Peele's Phil Jackson Is "Mr. Popular"

by | June 12th, 2014

Here's a the debut episode of Mr. Popular, a new web series from Above Average that was created by and stars Key and Peele writer and Chris Gethard Show alum Phil Augusta Jackson. New episodes of the six-episode series drop every Thursday, starring Jackson as a popular guy who confidently dances down the street to funk music while silently greeting his friends.

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'SNL's Sasheer Zamata Channels Peggy Olson in "Black Mad Men"

by | March 3rd, 2014

While we wait for Sasheer Zamata to get more screen time on SNL, here's the first episode of a new web series she's in called "Black Mad Men" written by Key and Peele's Phil Augusta Jackson and directed by Morgan Evans. Along with Jackson, Anthony Appruzzese, and Shaun Diston, Zamata plays a very Peggy-like ad exec in a scene spun off from Don Draper's famous Kodak Carousel or Lucky Strike "It's Toasted" pitches from Mad Men. The only difference on "Black Mad Men" is that Zamata and team are trying to convince their white client that Luke's Hummus is the key to unlocking true racial harmony through its irresistible [...]