--- title: Key & Peele Negrotown Sketch: Police Brutality Satire in New Season description: Come with the Comedy Central stars to a magical place canonical: https://time.com/3849007/key-peele-police-racism-negrotown/ author: Esther Zuckerman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-06T18:52:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:29.722Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Key & Peele Negrotown Sketch: Police Brutality Satire in New Season og:description: Come with the Comedy Central stars to a magical place og:url: https://time.com/3849007/key-peele-police-racism-negrotown/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Key & Peele Negrotown Sketch: Police Brutality Satire in New Season twitter:description: Come with the Comedy Central stars to a magical place twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Key & Peele Skewer Police Racism in This New Sketch by [Esther Zuckerman](/author/esther-zuckerman/) ## Esther Zuckerman Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME. May 6, 2015 6:52 PM CUT by [Esther Zuckerman](/author/esther-zuckerman/) ## Esther Zuckerman Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME. May 6, 2015 6:52 PM CUT New episodes of _Key & Peele_ don’t start until July—but at least there’s a new, incisive sketch from the comedically gifted pair. The sketch begins with an all-too-real scenario: Keegan-Michael Key’s character is stopped by a cop for no particular reason. But when his head slams against the side of the police car, he travels to a dreamland called “Negrotown,” where Peele is his singing, pink-suited guide, introducing him to a place where black people don’t have to face racism. So what happens in “Negrotown?” It’s more about what _doesn’t_ happen in “Negrotown.” As Peele’s character sings: “In Negrotown you can walk the street without getting stopped, harassed, or beat.” Alas—no spoilers!—the ending of the sketch is a bleak return to reality. It was nice while it lasted. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3849007/key-peele-police-racism-negrotown/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3849007/key-peele-police-racism-negrotown/"},"headline":"Watch Key & Peele Skewer Police Racism in This New Sketch","datePublished":"2015-05-06T18:52:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:29.722Z","description":"Come with the Comedy Central stars to a magical place","url":"https://time.com/3849007/key-peele-police-racism-negrotown/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","entertainment"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Esther Zuckerman","jobTitle":"Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3849007/key-peele-police-racism-negrotown/","name":"Watch Key & Peele Skewer Police Racism in This New Sketch"}}]}] ```