![]() The routine wasn’t just an example of masterful wordplay it worked because Key and Peele created a mini-personality for each player. Then there was the “East/West College Bowl” pregame routine, in which the two played an assortment of fake college football stars, introducing themselves on-camera with increasingly outlandish made-up names (Jackmerius Tacktheritrix, Davoin Shower-Handel, Swirvithan L’Goodling-Splatt). ![]() These small bits were blissful, mini-works of casual genius: In the days when our current president seemed too reluctant to stand up to Congress, Key created and played Luther, Obama’s “anger translator,” who stood on the sidelines spewing all the things the Commander-in-Chief just couldn’t bring himself to say. Key and Peele, the duo of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, are best known and loved-for the Comedy Central sketch show bearing their name, which ran from 2012 to 2015.
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