{"id":34818,"date":"2013-11-21T03:49:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T03:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34818"},"modified":"2013-11-21T03:49:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T03:49:25","slug":"for-key-and-peele-biracial-roots-bestow-special-comedic-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34818","title":{"rendered":"For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic ‘Power’"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic ‘Power’<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fresh Air<\/a>
\nNational Public Radio<\/a>
\n2013-11-20<\/p>\n

Terry Gross<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n

Keegan-Michael Key<\/a> and Jordan Peele<\/a> are the duo behind the Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele<\/a><\/em>. Each has a white mother and black father, and a lot of their comedy is about race: Perhaps because they’re biracial, they’re perfectly comfortable satirizing white people and African-Americans \u2014 as well as everybody else. The New Yorker’s<\/em> TV critic Emily Nussbaum describes their biracialism<\/a> as a “Golden Ticket to themes rarely explored on television.”<\/p>\n

Peele tells Fresh Air’s<\/em> Terry Gross, “I think the reason both of us became actors is because we did a fair amount of code switching growing up, and still do.”<\/p>\n

Key and Peele met in Chicago, where they were part of the improv scene, and later worked together on the sketch comedy series MADtv<\/em>. Their current show on Comedy Central wraps up its third season on Dec. 18, and has been renewed for a fourth.<\/p>\n

Key and Peele tell Gross the stories behind some of their sketches, and their feelings about Saturday Night Live’s<\/em> lack of female African-American cast members…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>. Listen to the story here<\/a>. Download the audio here<\/a>. Read the transcript here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic ‘Power’ Fresh Air National Public Radio 2013-11-20 Terry Gross, Host Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the duo behind the Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele. Each has a white mother and black father, and a lot of their comedy is about race: Perhaps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,2850,8,20],"tags":[12552,16433,16432,16431,2309,2833,15060],"class_list":["post-34818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-audio","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-fresh-air","tag-jordan-peele","tag-keegan-michael-key","tag-key-peele","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-terry-gross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}