Hot Take: Chappelle Show had excellent writing but Key & Peele had damn good acting

[Bryan Danielson]

of course they have more white fans,theyre superstars

they have more fans period

Right so on that “technicality they cater more to whites folks than K&P”

That right there is the irony and the joke of all this

 

[IllmaticDelta]

they had better acting for sure but that doesn't really make the jokes any funnier

 

[SunZoo]

I didn't mind that Key & Peele skits escalated. Only a few got old (The Airplane Turbulence skit got dragged out way longer than it should have).

The "I said biiiiiitch" skit was exaggerated intentionally. Them going up into space is apart of the joke; they can't escape their wives. That's where the high production value benefits Key & Peele.

Same with the air hump touchdown celebration skit. The flashy camera angles and onscreen graphics make it even more hilarious than it would have been.

I see why people like Chapelle's Show more. But for some reason, it's more hit or miss for me. I feel like when Chapelle's Show hits, it might have more raw funnyness than K&P. But K&P is more consistent. There's a lot of Chapelle's Show episodes where some of the skits are forgettable. As where with K&P, there's a LOT I can remember off the top of my head.

I definitely understand why people Chapelle's Show feels more "hip-hop" ish though. But I think you guys sell K&P a little short in that regards - they definitely had a few skits that might make white people more upset if anything.

But yeah, they are different styles. They aren't really trying to do the same thing. K&P goes for what are essentially mini-movies/mini-stories, hence why they drag the jokes and have high production values. Chapelle's Show is supposed to read more like banter that you might have with your boys when you're chilling or eating lunch, or like a quick roast session (hence why they don't get dragged out as much).

Keanu vs Half Baked.

Keanu has better writing, much better acting, production value...all the things that make a decent/good movie really, it has the edge in.

One is a cult classic, the other is a 100 minute long K&P sketch lol

 

[Methodical]

I found its interesting that yall said K&P are better acting and performing than Chappelle but somehow Chappelle characters are more memorable so basically Chappelle plays better characters and acting than K&P. Name one character from K&P that memorable?

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Man all y’all are leaving out the shyt that really counts like relatability. Key and Peele look like some suburb ass nikkas and was trying to appeal to a wider variety of people as opposed to Dave making all his shyt for an urban audience. So nikkas was not trying to check for Key and Peele off top. It is what it is.

Of course them dudes are funny and talented but that show could never in the history of the universe compare to the Chapelle Show. I don’t care how deep in character them nikkas got. Dave shot was just way more real than they shyt. Dave got Paul Mooney and Wu Tang doing shyt and rappers like the Roots performing and shyt in a regular basis. De La Soul ain’t never been on Key and Peele. If the term for the culture was ever appropriate, it would be to describe the Chapelle Show. Key and Peele don’t compare

 

[NZA]

I found its interesting that yall said K&P are better acting and performing than Chappelle but somehow Chappelle characters are more memorable so basically Chappelle plays better characters and acting than K&P. Name one character from K&P that memorable?

chappelle characters have better content, ie, better jokes or better writing which makes them more memorable

but as for k&p characters i remember:
continental breakfast guy, meegan, substitute teacher, obama and luther, horny muslims

 

[BonafideDefacto]

Listen, I'm gonna be honest with yall and this touches on one of the reasons Chappelle stopped his show. A lot of cacs love The Chappelle show cause it has a lot of 'racist' shyt on it.
So while many of them are laughing at sketches like 'The nikkar Family' or 'The Blind Black Racist'. Many of them are laughing for different reasons than you and I are
Now throw in a lot of black satire regarding Guns, Our attitudes, Violence and Drugs. Why are cacs laughing again? Why do they repeatedly watch Chappelle Episodes and repeat the dialogs. Might want to reasses things brehs...
Sometimes in a room of laughter...its not with you but at you

 

[Dwight Howard]

You can watch this shyt with the volum off and laugh at how ridiculous they look, but this example of great acting

 

[Striving For Greatness]

they had better acting for sure but that doesn't really make the jokes any funnier

You couldnt pay me to watch Key and Peele.

I didn’t find humor in any of the skits posted

 

[KidJSoul]

You can watch this shyt with the volum off and laugh at how ridiculous they look, but this example of great acting

One of their GOAT skits too

 

[KidJSoul]

All in all though, I'm impressed with the discussion in this thread. Some very good points and arguments have been brought up.

 

[Originalman]

I see what you're saying, but CS is almost 20 years old. Some of those sketches are bound to not age well. It's probably worth another thread, but in general comedy doesn't age nearly as well as other genres. As with most comedy, CS referenced a lot of things that were super specific to that era (pop culture, politics of the time, etc.) and over time those references get more disconnected and become less funny. I wouldn't expect to watch CS in 2020 and laugh my ass off.

I would argue older comedy is funny if you have a grasp of history. Say for instance I can watch good times, richard pryors tv show and 70s SNL. Even though those shows were on before I was born. Even though they made joke references to the 70s especially in politics and economics...because I had a grasp of understanding the 70s in terms of politics and history (my father was a an educator and historian). I perfectly understood the references when watching the show in syndication.

 

[Originalman]

The difference IMO is that for the CS it was always the joke inside the joke that always made me laughed. It was so much more layered.

Yet with K&P all their jokers were surface level and not deep.

 

[Originalman]

Allso I have said for the longest that the bush skit was probably the best skit I may have ever seen on tv from a political comedy standpoint.

Its not even the jokes that make it amazing. Its the fact from a historical standpoint dave and his crew took an actual factual time line of events from a president. Made light of every slip up but those slip ups and comments actually happened and all dave did was put a comic spin on it. The shyt was pure fukking genius.

Its funny that to this day it still goes over folks heads.