The best Wrench and peeler the sketches took a racier approach to the news of the time than on shows like Saturday night livemainly thanks to its presence on cable television. After working crazy TVKeegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele created Wrench and peeler in 2012. They delivered adult humor surrounding social consciousness, race relations, ethnic stereotypes, and pop culture references. The result was five seasons, 53 episodes and 298 different sketches before the show ended in 2015.
The best Wrench and peeler episodes introduced the world to several original characters who became popular enough to warrant repeat appearances. These include Luther, then-President Barack Obama’s rage translator, odd couple Meegan and Andre, The Valets and their insatiable love of movies, and more. They also brought their versions of real characters, including several sketches involving his portrayal of President Obama. With so many excellent sketches, the best Wrench and peeler the sketches remain some of the best on TV.
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Ray Parker, Jr.
Season 5, Episode 11
The last Wrench and peeler The episode had some fascinating sketches, including the brilliant “Negrotown.” However, there was also a fake commercial in the sketch that showed Jordan Peele playing musician Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters. This piece takes on the idea that your only memorable hit is a movie theme song and has Parker took advantage of this by recording several movie theme songs for the most unlikely films.
What makes the skit funny is that Ray Parker Jr. makes all the theme songs for his new movies from older movies that have already been released, ehand just try to bring your Ghostbusters spin on these movie plots so he can sell the box set in a television advertisement. The three-volume “Never Used Hits” set includes songs for Jumanji, Lawnmower Man, Armageddonand even Stephen King’s Nazi film Able Student. The fact that Parker has no idea what the films are about makes the songs perfect.
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Where does my Dookie go?
Season 2, Episode 2
There were several incredible episodes in Wrench and peeler Season 2, and the second one included Obama’s college sketch of him. However, in each episode of Key & Peele, small sketches that aren’t mentioned in the descriptions often serve as filler between the larger ones. That’s what “Where My Dookie Go?” the sketch is all about it, as just Key and Peele are sitting on the porch, smoking a joint, and then Peels asks the strangest question of all, wondering where your “dookie” goes after the toilet is flushed.
What makes this smaller sketch stand out as one of the the best Wrench and peeler sketches from the show’s history is the final sentence that Peele delivers, which takes the ridiculous premise and delivers a typical message from the series. After the two decide that the “dookie” goes from the sewers to the ocean before dissolving and rising to form clouds before raining down and forming plants, Peele has a revelation. If your “dookie” made it out of the neighborhood, maybe they can too. It’s a brilliant joke for a little play.
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Shady owner
Season 3, Episode 12
There were some recurring characters in Wrench and peeler who may not have been as popular as the others, but still starred in some bizarrely memorable sketches. This includes Devon, the “Dark Landlord.” In the season 3 episode, the Shady Landlord (Key) shows up at a tenant’s (Peele) apartment and thinks someone is hiding there. When finally pressed, he admits that he is looking for someone just over five feet tall with a purple beard.
The whole thing makes it seem like the Shady Landlord has something wrong with him, and even the mysterious attacker’s height decreases every time he mentions him. The sketch did what Key and Peele do best: start with a strange idea and let it build for small moments before swinging for the fences. with the joke at the end. The pacing of this sketch makes the Shady Landlord look like an idiot and then reveals the truth, leaving most fans wondering what they just watched.
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Dark City
Season 5, Episode 11
The last Wrench and peeler episode has a musical number that showcases many of the themes that Jordan Peele and Keegan Michael Key focused on throughout the show. In the episode, Key plays a man walking down the street at night. He passes Peele, who plays a homeless man asking for change. When Key enters an alley, a police car pulls up and arrests him for no reason before slamming his head into the car. The man without a home takes Key to a magical place called Negrotown.
The sketch goes bankrupt. The whole thing turns into a musical number where Key discovers that there is never a reason to fear for your life in Negrotown based on the color of your skin. Unfortunately, it was all a hallucination due to his head injury, and he goes to prison anyway, which is a twist that drives home the point of the sketch and the series, that nothing has really changed for him in society. This musical number was done brilliantly and conveyed the message that real change may be an illusion.
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Georgina and Ester and Satan
Season 4, Episode 3
In the third episode of season 4, Key and Peele play two kind-hearted church ladies named Georgina and Esther. They are sitting together in church and seem to be big gossip spreaders, but things take a strange turn when they start talking about how their loved ones have gotten into trouble. According to them, their loved ones are involved in everything from drug use and swearing in front of children to a son-in-law having “pornography of women on his laptop.”
However, what does this Wrench and peeler So funny sketch is what Georgina and Esther say they will do to Satan if he doesn’t leave their loved ones alone. It starts by simply hurting him, but then they do terrible things to him, escalating the violence and brutality (“through prayer, of course“) until things go completely off the rails. When the big twist in the sketch arrives, Key and Peele are more distraught.
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Gremlins 2 Brainstorm
Season 5, Episode 9
In season 5, Jordan Peele took on the role of Star Magic Jackson Jr., who said he was a sequel doctor and that when a studio “gave a draw” he was there to make sure everything went well. In his first appearance, he walked into a meeting where the writing team was discussing Gremlins 2. Although he initially insisted he was only there to observe the session, he quickly took control.
He then went around the table and asked people what kind of Gremlins they wanted to see, with each idea more ridiculous than the last (and all ending with an idea for a Hulk Hogan cameo). THE the best joke is that every idea he approved ended up Gremlins 2no matter how silly they looked. Peele’s enthusiasm for the ideas makes it a hilarious sketch even for those who have never seen the Gremlins sequence.
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Laron can’t laugh
Season 4, Episode 5
In one of the most bizarre Wrench and peeler skits, Peele plays Laron, a man who has no idea how to laugh. The cartoon shows a group of friends in an apartment sharing funny stories. While everyone laughs at the jokes, Laron begins to twitch and convulse without making a sound. No one has any idea what he’s doing, but he admits that’s how he laughs.
When he starts going overboard, convulsing around the apartment while destroying things, it continues to escalate to ridiculous levels. Do it for a hilarious display of physical comedy from Peele making this silent laugh an ironically entertaining performance. The more exaggerated his actions become, the funnier it is that he is doing everything with a straight face. The joke where he reveals why he didn’t want to laugh sells the entire sketch.
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Video game sensors
Season 2, Episode 7
“Video game sensors” is a Wrench and peeler skit that’s funny because it’s very sad, but then changes subject and turns into something quite disturbing. A group of friends are playing video games and one of them is despondent over the loss of his ex-girlfriend. At one point, he enters his room and he’s still using his game sensor so everyone watches him analyzing his avatar on TV.
He has no idea when to return, but then he sees a photo of his ex and returns, and everyone watches him having fun, with everyone gathering around the TV to watch his avatar replicate his body movements. Once the sketch device is introduced, it’s easy to see where it’s going, but still offers some great laughs, followed by a crude joke.
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Obama’s Anger Translator: Meet Luther
Season 1, Episode 1
Jordan Peele dominated President Barack Obama in his mannerisms and dialect, but the best of the presidential sketches came when Key got to play his angry translator, Luther. The joke was that many people said Obama was too laid back and didn’t show enough emotion. This made him bring in an angry translator, who said what Obama might really have been thinking as he gave his politically correct answers to questions.
That’s it a perfect sketch to showcase the versatility of the two comedians and how well they work with each other. Peele’s spot-on impression is further elevated by Key’s simmering anger and hostile outbursts, and vice versa. The sketch was so beloved that the real President Obama invited Key to reprise the role at the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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Manly Tears
Season 2, Episode 9
“Manly Tears” was a low-key sketch that packed a punch at the end. The success of this was the construction of the final joke at the end. Peele was a gangster whose best friend died while Key was a crew member, and he told everyone they needed to hear what he had to say. However, when Peele’s tough gangster can barely control himself as he speaks, Key’s right-hand man can’t contain his laughter.
Some of the funniest Wrench and peeler The sketches show them having fun with the tough personalities of the gangster world. The sketch is set up perfectly with Key giving a stern warning to take this man’s emotions seriously and see them as true strength only for Peele to be a crying mess this is too much to handle.
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School bully
Season 2, Episode 7
“School Bully” is a great sketch because it tackles a lot of real issues – bullying, child abuse, the education system – in a hysterical way. It all comes down to the deep-rooted psychological issues behind so many different mindsets in a high school setting that makes the viewer’s head spin as it explores the different perspectives involved while also making the audience laugh.
Peele plays a school bully who confronts Key’s nerdy outcast. With his friends behind him, Peele begins to pick on him, but when asked why he bullies, he makes an honest confession about his own insecurities. That’s it one of the most emotionally invested and hilarious sketches in Wrench and peelerthe story. Plus, the sketch gets extra points for featuring Andre Royo – aka Bubbles from The thread – as the attacker’s father.
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Comic insult
Season 3, Episode 6
Season 3 of Wrench and peeler introduced Keegan-Michael Key as an insulting comedian at a comedy club who begins his act by attacking the crowd, although he quickly meets his match when he comes across Jordan Peele’s characterwhich was visibly burned. The comic moves on to the next potential target, though Peele insists he gets roasted like the rest of the comedy fans.
The sketch quickly becomes uncomfortable as the jokes fall miserably and the discomfort, pain and Peele’s screams through his electric larynx were not just darkly hilarious, but also touched on the delicate balance of appropriate comedy decisions. Peele’s performance really sells this with his enthusiasm at being roasted only to immediately start crying. As an added bonus, there is a small cameo by Paul Walter Hauser as one of the audience members.
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Text Message Confusion
Season 4, Episode 3
In most of their sketches, Key and Peele play friends or enemies. From them the chemistry is so incredible that they can play characters who love each other or characters who hate each other. However, in this sketch, it’s as if Peele is playing one of the friendly characters and Key is playing one of the controversial characters who find themselves in the same sketch due to confusion over the meaning of a text message.
That’s it a hilarious sketch because it’s a situation people find themselves in every day. The pair banter with friends by texting each other about making plans for that night. However, while Peele sees the text messages as being relaxed and considerate of what each of them wants, Key continues to read them as being a hostile and rude exchange to the point where he is ready to kill his friend.
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Gay Marriage Advice
Season 4, Episode 1
Key and Peele always know the perfect way to use the sketch comedy “straight man” trope. In fact, in this case, ironically, the “straight man” is the only gay person in the room. Peele plays a mildly homophobic guy with a gay co-worker and a gay cousin who is getting married. So he recruits his gay co-worker – played by Key – to explain the ins and outs of a gay marriage to Peele’s homophobic family.
All he’s trying to say is that it’s basically the same as any other marriage, but they keep asking questions like, “When can we sing ‘It’s Raining Men’?”And wondering if instead of throwing rice, they throw couscous or Skittles. There is so many hilarious little details, like one of the family members diligently taking notes while another can’t even make eye contact with the gay man. THE The sketch is also star-studded, with appearances from the likes of Romany Malco, Gary Anthony Williams, and the late Lance Reddick.
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Wendell’s pizza order
Season 2, Episode 5
A recurring sketch of Wrench and peeler sees Jordan Peele as obese pop culture fan Wendell, who first appeared in season two’s “Pizza Order” sketch, which saw him trying to hide the fact that he was ordering a large amount of food all for himself when questioned by Keegan – Carlos, Michael Key’s order taker. Wendell pretends he is in a room with close friends, but the plan backfires when Carlos becomes interested in one of his fictional friends.
Although it is a very simple premise, Peele creates a fun and fully realized character with Wendell. His way of speaking makes him even more fascinating to watch and it’s hilarious to see his plan spiral out of control with him fueling the lie in surprising ways. Wendell would continue to return in hilariously uncomfortable situations, which included a fantasy-filled music video and a sex addicts’ gathering.
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The saga of Andre and Meegan
Various sketches
It’s impossible to choose just one sketch of Andre and Meegan because the characters work so well in every setting the series puts them in, and their relationship develops over several sketches, so their entire romantic saga is mentioned. From their first date to the whole jacket debacle and all the beatings Andre had to take because of Meegan’s big mouth, Andre and Meegan comically represent a specific type of couple that everyone knows – the couples who probably shouldn’t be together, but who can’t live without each other.
It’s another wonderful example of these two actors playing off each other effortlessly. Subtle appearances they share as these characters are hilarious. They nail the voices and mannerisms perfectly and seem to enjoy playing the dynamicsnot surprisingly, Andre and Meegan became recurring characters.
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East/West College Bowl
Season 2, Episode 2
There’s no way to describe what makes this sketch work, but it’s pretty clear that it does. One of the simplest ideas in the program, the sketch just plays with the strange names of the athletes that appear at college football games. It’s just one setting (East Coast) followed by about 30 jokes, and then another setting (West Coast) followed by another 30 jokes. And then there’s the final joke: a white guy with the hysterically generic name of Dan Smith.
The names of the football players in this Wrench and peeler the skit gets increasingly bizarre, going from double-barreled to biblical to bilingual to just sound effects. Even the names of the colleges they come from become increasingly strange. The structure of writing it does wonders for comedy because it’s just one joke after another.
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Meet and Greet Obama
Season 4, Episode 1
In fact, Barack Obama said that Jordan Peele does his favorite celebrity impression of himself. Peele played Obama in a few sketches, taking him from his college years to teaching Malia how to drive and hiring a rage translator. However, is “Obama Meet and Greet” which is without a doubt the funniest of the bunchwhile Peele plays Obama in a meet and greet in which he is very reserved and professional with white people and very informal and affectionate with black people.
When he gets to Key, he’s not sure what to do – until one of his aides informs him that he’s one-eighth black and he says, “Afternoon, my eighth!” Even those who haven’t watched the sketch show before have likely seen it turn into a now-popular meme which allows people the opportunity to share their favorite and least favorite opinions on everything from MCU movies to Jay-Z albums.
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Valet Movie Fans
Multiple episodes
Key and Peele’s hardcore action movie fans appeared in a series of sketches as they gushed over their favorite films and actors, including “Liam Neesons” and “Bruce Willys,” while working as hotel valets who occasionally ran into their famous heroes . That’s it It’s a joy to watch for any fan of this type of film, as its enthusiasm for recounting the best moments is contagious.
The sketch covered typical conversations between friends at the water cooler, but amplified to the pure extreme Wrench and peeler fashion as each subsequent appearance of the film Valet fans grew more and more like the very films they loved to discuss with such passion. Also as typical Wrench and peeler sketches, they always reach a level of absurdity as the pair’s excitement eventually reaches the point where they literally explode.
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The Chapel
Season 5, Episode 2
What it does “A Cappella” works so well that it’s a lighthearted and fun examination of a real racial issue. The sketch begins with Peele’s character in an acapella group (led by comedian Bo Burnham) only for Key to show up as the new recruit. The two characters know that, for some reason, the group of white people can only have one black person in it, so they get involved in a Highlander-like “There can only be one!” fight to be that guy.
Everything in the composition of the sketch is considered. Once the whites are gone, the bright color palette changes to a darker, moodier, and grittier one. The characters’ voices change to a deeper, more sinister tone. Furthermore, everything they do to fit in follows stereotypes to win over white people. That’s it a biting satire with a cheeky joke.