Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele
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The Emmy-nominated Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele will end after the current season, Keegan-Michael Key told The Wrap in a story published Saturday. He said the decision to stop after five seasons was his and his co-star Jordan Peele's, not Comedy Central's.

"It was just time for us to explore other things, together and apart," Key said of himself and Peele. "I compare it to Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. We might make a movie and then do our own thing for three years and then come back and do another movie."

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.