--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele by Judd Apatow: TIME 100 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- Apr 24, 2014 # Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele by Judd Apatow **Correction appended, April 24, 2014**. I don’t laugh out loud much anymore. I have seen way too much comedy, and one might say I am dead inside. But Key and Peele make me laugh — hard. These guys are crazy funny. They are smart, satirical, ridiculous, pointless, political, subversive, immature and important all at the same time. They know what they are doing and are ready for their moment. I’m equally impressed by their friendship. These two men seem amazed and grateful to have found each other. And they come alive when kicking around ideas, in perfect sync, offering ways to build and expand each other’s premises. It is a wonder to behold.  Keegan-Michael Keyn(left) and Jordan Peele Chris Buck for TIME We are writing a screenplay together, and I hope one day we make a movie. But regardless, every time I leave a meeting with them, I feel like I have been a part of something very special. It is comedy and love dancing together, and it is the best of the human race. (I think I went too far — but they are funny.) _Apatow is a producer, director and_ _Emmy-winning_ _screenwriter_ **Correction:** The original version of this post misrepresented Apatow’s accolade. He is an Emmy-winning screenwriter. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/71000/keegan-michael-key-and-jordan-peele-2014-time-100/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/71000/keegan-michael-key-and-jordan-peele-2014-time-100/"},"headline":"Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele","datePublished":"2014-04-24T02:23:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T22:59:34.791Z","description":"The new faces of funny","url":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/71000/keegan-michael-key-and-jordan-peele-2014-time-100/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","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":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/71000/keegan-michael-key-and-jordan-peele-2014-time-100/","name":"Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Key & Peele on Their Biggest Influences","description":"Key and Peele discuss how from here on out it's all downhill.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/zbLyi4C4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-04-24T10:24:37.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/zbLyi4C4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/71000/keegan-michael-key-and-jordan-peele-2014-time-100/","duration":"PT1M32S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/71000/keegan-michael-key-and-jordan-peele-2014-time-100/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```