There’s no ruling body on the question, not even a Rolling Stone-esque comedy magazine to claim that authority. But there is a smart married comedy couple, now co-authors of “The History of Sketch …
Elle Key, left, and Keegan-Michael Key attend the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton on May 3, 2023, in Beverly Hills, California. What is the single best comedy sketch of all time?
Elle: “There was a moment when Keegan was presenting at an award show and I wrote him something and had him stop for laughs — he was on video, waiting for the audience’s reaction as if it were live — and he did fight me on that, because he did not think it would get the laugh I knew he would get. But I can’t think of another time when we disagreed …”They have been married five years. She’s from New York City; he’s from Detroit.
“Key & Peele,” the remarkable sketch comedy show that Keegan made with Jordan Peele for five seasons on Comedy Central, often basked in this type of gamesmanship, raising the stakes, and raising the stakes, and raising the stakes. Elle and Keegan like to talk the math of such sketches. As she put it — “How you start at 6 then bring it to 412. Some sketches, the scenario will build so much, someone will have to explode.”“Yeah, ‘Key & Peele,’ the valets — they self-immolate.
There’s patience in sketch comedy that can feel old-school in an age of social media. When a “Key & Peele” or “SNL” or SCTV classic comes across my TikTok or Instagram feed these days, it’s nearly always drained of context and chopped up so much the comedy isn’t allowed room to heighten. Chaos doesn’t have to arrive. It’s already there.
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