We’re rolling through every episode of Key and Peele on Pop Thruster. Here we go with “The Job Interview,” Season 5 Episode 6. Follow along on the journey!
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Judge Jessie
“As a crack ho, he learned to go days without sleep.” – Judge Jessie doing voiceover on Judge Jessie
Judge Jessie (Key) is a daytime television judge who brings a lot of experience into the courtroom. I mean, just ask Judge Jessie.
Key & Peele On the Road: Part Seventeen
“You are a secure construction worker.” – Peele
K&P are back on the road out west, chitchatting away about all manner of things as an interstitial between sketches during the fourth and fifth seasons. Topics include timid librarians, Meryl Streep circa Weekend at Bernie’s, action stars and love handles, and Oscar bait movies.
The Job Interview
“Is this a job interview or The Carol Burnett Show?” – Noah Sanders
There are so many things about this one that elevate it over an average comedy sketch. There’s the unnecessary and yet somehow integral groovy/cheesy 1970s setting, but then there’s also a vintage K&P move where the mood shifts from giddy over-the-top banter – Mr. Weinstein (Key) is absolutely in love with job interviewee Adam (Adam Pally from The Mindy Project and Happy Endings) while next-in-line Noah Sanders (Peele) looks on in increasing dismay – to comedically dramatic mode (Mr. Weinstein is so enthralled with Adam that he emotionally gifts him with the ship in a bottle that was a peace offering from his now deceased brother). That bitch ocean and ahoy matey, indeed.
I’m Not Gonna Be There Waiting
“This is the fifth and last time…” – Key
K&P are two lady friends out at a bar, with the set-up that as Key relays all of her many thoughts on how she treats her man’s potentially cheating ways, Peele only says okay in many different tones and shades in reaction. This one feels a little more improv exercise with two talented performers versus polished comedy sketch.
A Robert Downeys Juniors Appreciation Sketch
“Yo, my man’s got a glowing heart in that one.” – Peele
Key and Peele, valet parking attendants, are back. This time around, Robert Downeys Juniors is the subject of their (pluralized) admiration(s). Beyond RD-squared, Valley Kilmers also gets some love in this one as well.
Decker: First Tech, Part Two
“Ain’t my first rodeo.” – Decker
Decker (Peele) is back, and the grizzled Rambo-esque soldier brought back for One Last Mission in Afghanistan… except he gets very distracted by the high-tech 3D special effects that Key’s frustrated general uses to explain to him and Agent Jackson (Number Six from Battlestar Galactica) what the mission is. This is the rare case where the sequel is funnier than the original.
Meet the Parents
“You should be ashamed of yourselves.” – Key
In what’s perhaps the clearest homage to The Twilight Zone that K&P ever produced (with Jordan Peele poised to go on to produce a reboot of the iconic anthology sci fi series in 2019), a woman (Melanie Lynskey, who is great in everything, but especially Togetherness) brings home a man (Key) to meet parents who are clearly offended by the color of his skin. However, there’s something else going on here. And by here, I mean there, and by there, I mean tail.
Some stats and info about Key & Peele, “The Job Interview”
TV SHOW – Key and Peele
SEASON/EPISODE – Season 5, Episode 6
AIRED ON – August 12th, 2015
NETWORK/STREAMING SERVICE – Comedy Central/Hulu
GENRE – Comedy, Sketch Comedy
CREATED BY – Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele