Did Key & Peele Have a Falling Out? Keegan-Michael Key Says It’s a ‘Tragedy’ That He Doesn’t See Jordan Peele Much Anymore

Ryan Schwartz

22 September 2024 at 1:33 pm·1-min read

Don’t get your hopes up for a Key & Peele reunion any time soon.

In a new interview with People, Keegan-Michael Key — one-half of the former Comedy Central duo — reveals that he and Jordan Peele haven’t seen much of each other since their Emmy Award-winning series wrapped its five-season run in 2015.

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“[W]e don’t see each other that often anymore,” Key says. “Which is, to me, a tragedy.”

The sketch-comedy veterans, who trained at Chicago’s famed Second City before landing on Fox’s MADtv, “shared a creative language.” Key notes that he and Peele once “lived together for a few months and would write and talk about comedy — who we liked and why we liked them and how that worked in the architecture of what we were trying to build comedically…. When we were on camera, it was alchemy.”

But the pair ultimately grew apart, with Key acknowledging that “your lives start to evolve and move in different directions…. Our evolution, I think, is tied to both of what our desires are. His desire was to start exploring the horror genre, and my desire was to do more dramatic work like I had been trained in school.”

In the almost-decade since Key & Peele came to a close, Key has gone on to star in Netflix’s Friends From College, Hulu’s Reboot and Apple TV+’s Schmigadoon! His film credits include The Prom and Wonka.

Peele, meanwhile, has reestablished himself as a film director, having helmed modern horror classics Get Out (2017), Us (2019) and Nope (2022).

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