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Vice President Kamala Harris blasted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday following his comment that the GOP may look to repeal the Chips and Science Act if they maintain control of Congress.

“I want to speak to the comments that have been recently made by the speaker of the House,” Harris told reporters in Milwaukee, according to NBC News. “It is just further evidence of everything that I’ve actually been talking about for months now, about [former President Donald] Trump’s intention to implement Project 2025.”

Johnson has spent the week before...

Acclaimed filmmaker Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI) is a delightful storyteller. The man nabbed an Emmy Award (Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming) for the film By the People: The Election of Barack Obama. He was also nominated for an Oscar, along with Spike Lee, for 4 Little Girls. Now, he’s at the helm of The League, a powerful documentary that illuminates the fascinating journey of Negro League baseball — from its triumphs to its challenges — through the first half of the 20th century.

It’s a towering achievement with a wonderfully told story featuring previously unearthed archival footage and never-before-seen interviews with legendary players like Buck O’Neil and Satchel Paige; their early careers created a path for Jackie Robinson and Hall-of-Famers Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, all of whom began in the Negro Leagues.

Of the new project, Pollard immediately noted that he believes people will be immediately surprised by...

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank rocked the financial market on Friday, with many marveling at how quickly it seemed to happen. But Seth Meyers wasn’t at all surprised it happened, nor was he confused about who was responsible for it. The “Late Night” host joked that the meltdown is basically just the latest mystery “in a super boring game of Clue.”

If you haven’t been following Svb’s collapse, here’s what you need to know. On Wednesday, the bank told investors it needed to raise just over $2 billion to offset $1.8 billion in losses. On Thursday, dozens of Svb’s venture capital clients — at the urging of, among others, billionaire Peter Thiel — started pulling their assets from the bank.

In the end, these customers withdrew a staggering $42 billion, and as a result Svb was left with a negative cash balance of $958 million. So, on Friday morning, regulators...

Get Out and Call Me by Your Name were the big winners at Monday night's Gotham independent film awards, with Jordan Peele's racially themed horror movie and the coming-of-age romance, starring Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet, picking up three and two awards, respectively.

Before the awards were handed out, Get Out producer Jason Blum, who was honored during the ceremony, explained how the film, which Peele wrote during the Obama administration to prove that racism wasn't over despite the U.S. having a black president, is resonating more and more with audiences given the current political climate.

"Unfortunately, the past...

At the San Francisco Film Society’s Doc Stories, Samantha Power — aka President Barack Obama’s U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations — is a true star. “What a crowd,” she tweeted after a rousing standing ovation for Greg Barker’s HBO documentary “The Final Year,” which features her as part of Obama’s foreign policy team. “Huge thanks to SFFilm Doc Stories & to an incredibly engaged San Francisco audience who saw @thefinalyeardoc not as a retrospective, but as a call to action.”

The third annual Doc Stories (Nov. 2-5) was a rich weekend of nonfiction features and shorts that launched with the world premiere of Alex Gibney’s “Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge, Part I” (HBO) and closed with Chris Smith’s “Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton” (Netflix).

It’s part of Sffilm executive director Noah Cowan’s...

Jordan Peele started developing the script for his hit Get Out in 2008, during what he refers to as a "post-racial lie."

"When I was writing this, people were saying, 'Racism is done,'" said Peele, who began scripting the thriller during the beginning of the Obama administration. He contended: "But at the same time, [the President] was being questioned if he was American."

During a conversation with Kcrw's Elvis Mitchell at the Directors Guild of America for the Film Independent Forum, Peele talked about the process of creating a social thriller that was accurate to the contemporary black experience.

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Keegan-Michael Key revived his beloved Key & Peele character Luther, Obama's Anger Translator to criticize the Trump administration during the actor's Tuesday night visit to The Late Show.

"There is very few things we've heard from President Obama since he left office. Literally, just a couple sentences out there talking about policy," Stephen Colbert told Key. "I was wondering if I could read what Obama has said and Luther could translate that."

Key played along and – after bugging his eyes out and upping his intensity – transformed into Luther as Colbert...

We miss the Comedy Central sketch series “Key and Peele” for no shortage of reasons, but high up on the list was Luther, as the “Obama’s Anger Translator” sketches might have been one of pop culture’s most coherent and wise takes on President Obama during his years in office.

Read MoreKeegan-Michael Key On Why Less Money Means Smarter Movies, and Why the Whole Country Needs Anger Translators — SXSW 2017

The sketch concept didn’t officially retire after the end of the series in 2015, but it’s only reappeared irregularly — like, say, during a talk show appearance Keegan-Michael Key (who, as Luther, voiced the more angry side of Obama) made during this interview on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”

Colbert cues Key up with one of Obama’s rare public comments regarding the health care debate, made via Facebook, and he only needs a few moments to sink into the role.

Last November, Dave Chappelle returned to the national comedy stage to host “Saturday Night Live,” just four days after Donald Trump had won the elections. At the end of his monologue, the comedian thanked exiting President Obama and offered a positive message for Trump. “I’m gonna wish Donald Trump luck, and I’m going to give him a chance, and we the historically disenfranchised demand that he give us one too,” Chappelle said.

Read More: Dave Chappelle Wants Credit For ‘Key & Peele’: ‘They’re Doing A Format That I Created’

Now, Chappelle seems to regret his comment. On Monday, the comedian performed during the Robin Hood Foundation benefit in New York City. According to NBC’s Willie Geist, while on stage Chappelle said, “I was the first guy on TV to say ‘Give Trump a chance.’ I f***ed up. Sorry.”

Dave Chappelle tonight in NY on his...

(Spoiler alert: Please do not read on if you haven’t watched Chapter I of “Dear White People”) It’s always a little uncomfortable being the black guy or girl who’s being introduced to their partner’s white family. A million and two questions are invading your head — is his/her family low-key racist? Are they going to tell me they voted for Obama to make me feel comfortable? Do they even know I’m black? And etc. etc. (Just reference Jordan Peele’s “Get Out”). But what Netflix’s “Dear White People” just revealed — also what many black...

Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out, just keeps on hanging in the box office conversation. The film only took $4.5 million to make, and has thus far made well over $150 million, making it more than a worthwhile investment for the studio. This was no accident or coincidence. Get Out may have been a horror film, but it was one that was the perfect blend of a creepy story and stellar execution. Top that off with a nice dose of social commentary, and you have the makings for a pretty strong cinematic experience.

Of course, at the end of the day, the film is also a horror flick, and horror movies are well known for their alternate endings. Oftentimes, a studio may pick up a finished film and ask them to change the ending for one reason or another (Paranormal Activity is a good example of a film with multiple endings...

Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephen Root | Written and Directed by Jordan Peele

Blumhouse Productions is on something of a commercial and critical winning streak at the moment. Aside from providing a platform for Joel Edgerton’s excellent The Gift, it is supporting the unique voice of Ti West, and has become the home of M. Night Shyamalan’s best work in years. Get Out, Jordan Peele’s directorial debut (after co-writing 2016 comedy Keanu), shares something of the latter’s love for weird humour and genre-dodging thrills.

Skins and Black Mirror actor Daniel Kaluuya plays Chris, the boyfriend of Rose (Allison Williams). She has convinced him to take a weekend in the country to visit her parents. Dean and Missy Armitage (Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener) are excruciatingly liberal and over-friendly from the moment they meet Chris.

Jordan Peele's directorial debut arrives in the UK, and deserves every bit of its success to date. Here's our review...

After an Oscars season throughout which the question of race in cinema was never far from commentators’ lips, up steps the unlikely figure of a horror-comedy to smash the Us box office with a hotter take than the rest. Get Out, Jordan Peele’s feature debut, somehow manages to be that rarest of things – an unpredictable horror film, and a gleefully sharp satire all at once. Gone are horror’s default targets: young girls aren’t punished for promiscuity or men for scepticism. Get Out doesn’t read like an attack, but more a good-natured entreaty for earnest white liberals to have a word with themselves.

It has a point. We’re pretty lame. There is a tendency among the white intelligentsia to congratulate ourselves on our progressive credentials:...

Author: Stefan Pape

The horror genre so often works best when steeped in reality, to take emotions and flaws from within our own humanity to evoke and display tropes that will terrify viewers. The Babadook used depression as a device, and It Follows lingered over the notion of sexual desire, and these are two of the finest horrors of recent years, away from supernaturalism, instead utilising themes that audience members can resonate with on a personal level. Jordan Peele’s Get Out tackles racism, and while the writer/director may be best known for his comedic offerings, this endeavour is far from funny – it’s pretty disturbing stuff.

Daniel Kaluuya plays Chris Washington, invited along by his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) to spend the weekend at her parent’s suburban abode. “Have you told them I’m black?” he asks, only to be shot down, reassured that he has nothing to worry about,...

Universal's horror-thriller Get Out has become somewhat of a cultural phenomenon, making headlines for scoring a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes in its opening weekend, while easily taking the top spot at the box office. After dropping just 21% this weekend, Get Out has taken in over $75 million domestically, from just a $4.5 million budget. During a new interview, writer-director Jordan Peele reveals that he almost put in an alternate ending that was even more dark than the original ending. There will be Spoilers below if you haven't seen Get Out yet, so read on at your own risk.

Jordan Peele appeared on Buzzfeed's Another Round podcast, where he discussed the inspiration for making Get Out. The writer-director revealed that the notion of a "post-racial America" that surfaced during the Obama administration helped inspire this story about an interracial couple. Here's what the filmmaker had to say below.

"In the beginning, when...

It’s the question of the week: Where were you when the %100 Rotten Tomatoes score for Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” was broken? The Jordan Peele-directed social thriller had gotten all perfect reviews across the board from 149 critics, a rare feat that is pretty awesome considering the movie is a Jason Blum horror film and not the prestige dramas that usually rank high on the Tomatometer.

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But then came the 150th review from the infamous Armond White, who, let’s face it, was never going to agree with the status quo. He bashed the film as an “Obama movie for Tarantino fans” and criticized Peele for exploiting racial discomfort and “irresponsibly playing racial grief and racist relief off against each other, subjecting imagination and identification to political sway.”

Fans were heartbroken when the film...

by Chris Feil

From its long-take opening to its satisfying conclusion, comedian Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out is one hell of a delight. Photographer Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) is heading to the country family home of his girlfriend Rose (Girls’ Allison Williams), an extra uneasy experience given that he is her first black boyfriend. Her parents (Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener) are woodsy liberals, quasi-intellectuals who love Obama and are just on the performative side of accommodating.

But it’s best to let the rest of Get Out reveal itself: you’ll want to know as little as possible before strapping into this ride...

“I’m a very lucky man. I’ve got two babies coming right now,” Jordan Peele jokes with Et. “I got this movie right here; I got another one coming in July. I don’t know how it goes up from here.”

This time marks a lot of firsts in the life of Peele, the actor and comedian who is often recognized as half of Key & Peele. Peele is celebrating his directorial debut and first foray into horror movies with Get Out (in theaters on Feb. 24), as well as the impending birth of his first child with his wife, Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress Chelsea Peretti. “It’s surreal. It’s not the type of thing I can just wrap my head around right now,” he says, joking: “I’m really looking forward to my child’s comedy special. It’s going to be good.”

Since the Emmy-winning Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele ended in 2015, Peele has been...

For fans of the Comedy Central show “Key & Peele” and people that have paid attention to Jordan Peele, it should be pretty evident that Jordan Peele is a fan of horror. Many skits not only pay tribute to the genre but for the most part also provide commentary on the exhausted tropes that lie in the genre. With Jordan Peele’s feature-length directorial debut, Get Out, the trend continues.

Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) is about to meet the parents of his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), for a weekend getaway and has some trepidation due to the fact that they are an interracial couple. Rose assures him that there is nothing to worry about because her parents are “lame” and do not care about race. She even includes a joke that her dad would have voted for Obama for a third-term if he could have. Chris & Rose leave the city and visit...

The first few months of the year seem to be prime territory for the studios to unleash new horror flicks. Perhaps the thinking is to get out of the way of most of the action blockbusters of the Spring/Summer and steer clear of those serious “message” prestige films near the end of the year. Well, maybe this “chiller” could be close to the later category. It’s got lotsa’ scares and some not-so-subtle bits of social commentary, a message horror flick. But it’s really not something new to ‘sinister cinema”. Many interpret the vampire legend as a commentary on female sexuality while others see zombie stories as metaphors for the struggle in the class system (the walking dead as the lower classes rising up to consume…). Perhaps the most famous example of this “mixing” is 1956’s iconic Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (and its three remakes), which some...

Jordan Peele’s Get Out is a modern-day provocation commanded by raw talent. On the surface, one can marvel at a feature debut steadied by poise, purpose and tonal damnation. Social relevancy gives a voice to racial unrest, only making this twisted suburban nightmare even more daringly delicious. Peele uncorks a bottle of matured oppression, and adds it to a simmering societal pot that only appears to be bubbling more by the day. Paranoia, exploitation and class dominance make for one hell of a conflict, yet comedy still endures. Not like a confined Key & Peele sketch entertains, though – expect nothing to be held back. Just wait for the last thirty-minutes or so. Fireworks by way of gore, survival terrors and one massive, monumental mindfuck.

Daniel Kaluuya stars as Chris, an African-American photographer who’s dating the All-American Rose (Allison Williams). It’s a big weekend for the couple. They’re...

Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

This Past Weekend:

Presidents' Day weekend was an interesting one at the box office, and as with most holiday weekends, it was particularly difficult to figure out how things might fare, other than The Lego Batman Movie, which remained at #1 with almost $45 million over the four-day weekend. Fifty Shades Darker followed with $21.3 million, about a 50% drop. Last week, I thought that the Ice Cub comedy Fist Fight would beat The Great Wall, although it seemed like it could be a close race. Nope. Matt Damon’s action epic came in third place with $21.6 million, which is a couple million more than my original prediction, but The Fist Fight fell short of my prediction by almost $10 million, grossing $14.5 million in its first four days.

A jolt-a-minute horroshow laced with racial tension and stinging satirical wit. How is one movie all that? See Get Out, from debuting director Jordan Peele (one half of the comic team of Key and Peele), and get woke. This socially aware scary movie takes you by surprise, setting the scene for a slasher flick that's a ticking timebomb. And then, ka-boom.

"Have you told your parents I'm black?" Those are practically the first words that aspiring photographer Chris Washington (Sicario's Daniel Kaluuya) speaks to his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams...

Jordan Peele’s latest career incarnation could have been fodder for “Key & Peele,” the hit Comedy Central sketch show in which he and Keegan-Michael Key skewered modern racial issues. But Peele wrote had written a horror movie about race, and it needed a director. That created a challenge: After William Crain (“Blacula”), Bill Gunn (“Ganja & Hesse”), and Ernest Dickerson (“Bones,” “The Walking Dead”), how many black horror directors can you name? (The savviest genre fans out there might also remember James Bond III, very much a real person, who directed “Def By Temptation” 27 years ago.)

Needless to say, it was slim pickings. “I first pitched this as a movie no one would make,” Peele said. “About halfway through writing the script, I realized I was the only person who could direct it.”

However, Peele’s feature directing debut, “Get Out,” also brings him into the rarified class of horror directors...

If you’ve ever seen an episode of Key & Peele, then you should already recognize that both Jordan Peele and his frequent collaborator Keegan-Michael Key are huge horror fans, as they regularly paid homage to many of the modern horror tropes we’ve all grown up loving. For his directorial debut, Get Out, Peele takes on one of the more relevant topics plaguing our society today—racism—and infuses his horrific tale with his signature satirical wit for an experience that’s fearlessly bold, hilarious, and an important reminder that we still have so much work left to do as human beings when it comes to issues of equality.

Get Out follows Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), a photographer from the city who travels with his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), to her family’s country estate to meet her parents, Dean and Missy Armitage (Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener), and spend a weekend away from it all.

Resisting a deep racial analysis in the vein of I Am Not Your Negro, master satirist Jordan Peele’s horror comedy Get Out requires an audience ready to hoot, holler, yell, and laugh along. In large part, his directorial debut is a success, a rare studio comedy/thriller with a surface-level social agenda. The true test of a film like this is rather simple: are we with it or do we resist? The answer is largely the former and Get Out has a great of fun satirizing our “post-racial” society in a horror comedy of manners, though it never actually tackles the depressing realities of the issue.

Daniel Kaluuya plays Chris, a young black man dating Rose, (Allison Williams), a white girl from the upper crust, liberal family. So liberal, in fact, both Rose and her father Dean (Bradley Whitford) take every opportunity to remind him that he would have...

It’s never a good sign when Catherine Keener is the scariest thing in your horror movie, but if “Get Out” isn’t half as scary as the ideas that inspired it, Jordan Peele’s directorial debut is almost certain to be the boldest — and most important — studio genre release of the year. What it lacks in fear, it nearly makes up for in fearlessness.

When Hollywood wants to talk about race, it’s usually an inspirational film, set at some point in the past, that sparks discussion. It doesn’t matter if that setting is the 19th century, the civil rights movement, or even sometime last week; it’s any time that isn’t right this moment. Stories of injustice are always more comfortable being watched over your shoulder, so these films bring a wedge of distance so that (white) audiences don’t feel implicated in the on-screen suffering.

A secret Sundance screening of Jordan Peele’s directorial debut “Get Out” thrilled audiences in Park City on Monday night. Turning a “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” premise into horror with a healthy side of social commentary, “Get Out” centers around an interracial couple (Allison Williams and Daniel Kaluuya) going home to meet the parents (Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener).

A very special former “Girls” intern was in the audience; Malia Obama got to enjoy a recurring joke that one white character “Would’ve voted for Obama a third time.” In a conversation after the screening, Peele introduced producers Sean McKittrick and Jason Blum, cinematographer Toby Oliver, and Whitford before answering questions from the adoring crowd.

Read More: ‘Crown Heights’ Review: Lakeith Stanfield Shines In A Messy Docudrama That Doesn’t Do Justice — Sundance 2017

“This was something I felt like was really a missing piece in the genre,” Peele said of his horror influences.

“The Simpsons” finally came up with its first-ever one-hour episode by accident.

In the episode, “The Great Phatsby,” Mr. Burns becomes pals with hip-hop mogul “Jay G,” who ends up conning him out of his fortune. It began as a regular episode, “but in the spirit of excitement and impulsiveness and exuberance, we expanded it to an hour-long after the table read because it had gone so well,” said executive producer Matt Selman.

“Empire” had launched as a mega-hit, and the feature “Straight Outta Compton” had just been released, when “The Simpsons” team were developing the episode. It was in that zeitgeist that the show’s producers were inspired to fully embrace the genre.

“We had never done a hip-hop episode to this degree,” Selman said. “It’s embracing the spirit of excess so commonly found in hip-hop lyrics. It’s a Mr. Burns episode. He learns the joy of...

Seth Meyers on Tuesday unintentionally scored the first interview with Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway following new reports about the president-elect’s alleged ties to Russia.

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The interview, which had already been scheduled, but was filmed just hours after a dossier surfaced with compromising personal and professional information on Trump (which has been made public by BuzzFeed News), found the Late Night host asking Conway about the new, unverified intelligence, and Conway suggesting that Trump hadn’t been briefed despite reports that he had.

“I have to...

Mark Hamill has made no secret of his disdain for Donald Trump, frequently airing his grievances about the president-elect via social media and even referring to his proposed cabinet as “a who’s-who of really despicable people.” Now, the “Star Wars” actor and “Batman: The Animated Series” voice actor is expressing his dissent in an unusual, albeit entertaining way: by recording a selection of Trump’s tweets in the voice of the Joker.

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Hamill first began voicing the character in 1992 and has since done so in a number of films and video games as well; his performance as the iconic Gotham City villain is highly regarded. His new form of protest was first suggested by Matt Oswalt on Twitter, who referred to the prospect of an app featuring Hamill reading Trump’s tweets as the Joker a “billion dollar idea.

This past Monday, NBC aired the season premiere of “The New Celebrity Apprentice” with its new host actor and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger. The show’s former host President-Elect Donald Trump opted to leave the show to focus on his then presidential campaign. Now this morning, Trump tweeted about the ratings for “The New Celebrity Apprentice” and how Schwarzenegger “got ‘swamped'” by himself, “the ratings machine.”

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Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got “swamped” (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, Djt. So much for….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017

being a movie star-and that was season 1 compared to season 14. Now compare him to my season 1. But who cares, he supported Kasich & Hillary

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017

Two and a half hours later, Schwarzenegger responded to...

It's been a little while since the Comedy Central hit Key & Peele wrapped up its run, but since then, the duo have made one movie together, and Jordan Peele is directing an awesome-looking horror film that's set for release this year. But with President Obama just days away from vacating The White House, the pair have returned to their old network and did a quick guest spot on The Daily Show, resurrecting a couple of their classic characters to give the President one final send-off. For the last (?) time, here's Obama and his Anger Translator, Luther:

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

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Key and Peele brought back their popular President Obama anger translator sketch for one last run during Thursday’s episode of “The Daily Show.” As Keegan Michael Key explained to host Trevor Noah, even though the comedy duo’s sketch show has ended, when one of their former writers said he had written a new version of the sketch, they jumped at the chance to do it. Jordan Peele once again did his best Obama impersonation, while Key played his anger translator, Luther. Obama made several statements about accepting Donald Trump as our next President before Luther yelled, “How did this happen?...

President Obama’s anger translator Luther has something to get off his chest. The character created by Keegan-Michael Key returned for a final sketch that aired on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” Thursday, unloading his continued astonishment that Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States.

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“Don’t you understand this is how ‘The Hunger Games’ starts?” Luther said during the sketch, which featured too many bleeped out curse words to count.

The always calm President Obama, played by Jordan Peele, responds that the election was close, but that the American people have spoken.

“Yeah, they voted for Hillary Clinton, but then this outdated electoral college mumbo jumbo voodoo bullsh*t got you got to be kidding me,” Luther said.

After a subtle mention about Melania Trump plagiarizing Michelle Obama’s speech,...

As 2017 begins we will see the beginning of President-elect Donald Trump’s White House stay, which will bring an end not only to Obama’s time in office, but all the great comedy that was inspired by it. One of the most notable bits of hilarity inspired by the president came from the show Key & Peele, featuring Jordan Peele as Obama and Keegan-Michael Key as his anger translator,... Read More...

Key & Peele's Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele reunited on Thursday's The Daily Show to present one final sketch involving Key's beloved character, Luther, Obama's anger translator.

As Key explained to Trevor Noah in his introduction to the skit, a former Key & Peele writer penned the sketch as "catharsis" following Donald Trump's victory. "So we decided to make a final Obama/Luther," Key said of the character that once accompanied the actual president onstage at a White House Correspondents Dinner.

In the sketch, Peele's "Obama" begins...

Barack Obama is not happy about vacating 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for President-elect Donald Trump. Need proof? Just ask his anger translator, Luther.

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Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele reunited on The Daily Show, where they appeared in a pre-taped sketch on Thursday as the outgoing president and his aforementioned anger translator. The bit found Obama attempting to lift the spirits of those disappointed by the outcome of the election with a message of unity and hope. Luther, on the other hand, conveyed the...

I’ll be honest: I really needed this. And, I suspect, so did a lot of you, especially after President Obama’s in real life final press conference a couple of weeks ago. Keegan-Michael Key appeared tonight on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah and gave fans something they’ve been tweeting about for the better part of two months: Luther, Obama’s anger translator. Luther was of course one of the most popular characters from their Comedy Central series Key & Peele. And since…...

Samantha Bee went on a crusade against the Catholic Church on Monday for allowing its dogma to jeopardize the well-being of pregnant women.

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Triggered earlier in the episode by presidential debate moderator Chris Wallace conflating partial birth abortions, which no longer exist, with late term abortions, the Full Frontal host examined the inner workings of Catholic hospitals and the religious beliefs that prevent them from terminating pregnancies even when the mother’s life is in danger.

“I don’t have a joke here… I’d like a word with the priesthood,...

Over the weekend, the Television Academy handed out the Creative Arts Emmys — i.e., the awards not quite glamorous to be squeezed into this coming Sunday's 68th Primetime Emmy Awards telecast on ABC. Lots of interesting things happened, including Game of Thrones picking up 9 awards (the Creative Arts includes most of the technical categories), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend sharing an award of choreography but losing both song categories for which it was eligible (to Diane Warren's song from The Hunting Ground and the Jessica Jones theme music), and more. But the one that got my attention the most — and convinced me to finally change the way I do my annual Emmy preview column — was Character Actress Margo Martindale's repeat win for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama for her work on The Americans. I love both The Americans and Character Actress Margo Martindale, but she was in one scene all season,...

From the very first sketch — in which two African-American men on their phones began to conversationally code-switch when they get in proximity to each other — you could tell Key & Peele was not your typical sketch show. Maybe you recognized Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele from their Mad TV days, or knew the latter from his Children's Hospital appearances; maybe you simply thought, it's a new Comedy Central series, let's check it out. But by the time the show concluded its five-season run of ridiculous college-football player names, Presidential anger-translations, weepy gangsters,...

Peer deep within your soul. Understand what kind of Key and Peele fan you are. Because if the East/West College Bowl, Obama Anger Translator Luther, or the valets whose heads explode over "Liam Neesons" are strictly your jam, then Keanu may not be. If, however, you embrace the pair's more strangely ludicrous, high-concept fare, then settle in.

Jordan Peele plays Rell, adrift about being recently dumped by his girlfriend. Keegan-Michael Key is his cousin, Clarence, whose wife is conveniently out of town for the weekend. Nothing appears to lift Rell's spirits until a sweet little kitty appears on his doorstep.

Peer deep within your soul. Understand what kind of Key and Peele fan you are. Because if the East/West College Bowl, Obama Anger Translator Luther, or the valets whose heads explode over "Liam Neesons" are strictly your jam, then Keanu may not be. If, however, you embrace the pair's more strangely ludicrous, high-concept fare, then settle in. Jordan Peele plays Rell, adrift about being recently dumped by his girlfriend. Keegan-Michael Key is his cousin, Clarence, whose wife is conveniently out of town for the weekend. Nothing appears to lift Rell's spirits until a sweet little kitty appears on his doorstep.

I've been a fan of Saturday Night Live since the mid-1980's, and covered it on a weekly basis for six seasons. So when I say this was one of the worst episodes the show has ever done, I wanted to properly frame the context around that statement.

Jonah Hill hosted for the fourth time, and each of his three previous appearances had at least a few highlights. But here? For whatever reason, the combination of all factors led to an episode that fundamentally didn't work on almost every level.

Funny Or Die has hired former Obama administration Senior Presidential Speechwriter David Litt to lead its Washington, D.C. shenanigans. Litt, who also served as a special assistant to President Barack Obama, is now head writer of producer of the political city’s office. “We’re thrilled to have David join the Funny Or Die DC team,” said Mike Farah, president of Production of Funny Or Die. “He’s funny, clearly much smarter than all of us, and bears a striking resemblance to ‘Tommy Boy’ era David Spade, which means a lot to us.” Also Read: Johnny Depp Plays Donald Trump...

With Larry David set to host Saturday Night Live this weekend, viewers are all but guaranteed to see a sketch — maybe even two or three of ’em — featuring his beloved take on Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

While that thought probably makes you happier than Rosie O’Donnell fantasizing about a Donald Trump concession speech, allow me for a moment to sound as crusty and cantankerous as David’s version of the Vermont senator.

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Larry Wilmore is following in other Comedy Central personalities’ footsteps by hosting the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Carol Lee, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, announced on Wednesday that the “Nightly Show” host would take the podium in Washington, D.C. on April 30. “Larry’s edgy, even provocative, brand of humor means he’s certainly up to the task of skewering politicians of all ideological stripes, and we don’t expect the nation’s news media to escape unscathed, either,” Lee said. See Video: Obama Brings the White House Down With CNN, MSNBC Digs, Surprise 'Key & Peele' 'Anger Translator' at Correspondents'.

Appearing on The Tonight Show to talk with Jimmy Fallon about the impending end of Key & Peele (“We figured we we're gonna go the British route, where they do three or four seasons of everything and go, we’re done.”), Keegan-Michael Key told the story about the time he hung out and rehearsed with Barack Obama. Obama, a noted Key & Peele fan, had asked Key to reprise the character of Luther, President Obama’s Anger Translator, for this year's White House Correspondents Dinner. In the act, Luther interprets Obama’s calm demeanor into a more folk-friendly bombast, i.e. turning the President's "We count on the news to shed light on the most important issues of the day" into "And we can count on Fox News to terrify old white people with some nonsense!" In his appearance on the Tonight Show, Key likened the sensation of Obama making an entrance to,...

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele announced Saturday that their acclaimed sketch comedy series Key & Peele will end after its fifth season, which is currently airing on Comedy Central. Peele broke the news to fans by simply linking to a story on The Wrap regarding the series' fate after these final eight episodes.

"This is our final season – and it's not because of Comedy Central, it's us," Key said. "It was just time for us to explore other things, together and apart. I compare it to Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.