The sketches cover a variety of societal topics, often with a focus on American popular culture, ethnic stereotypes, social awkwardness, and race relations.

Comedy Central also maintains an official YouTube channel for the series, which currently has over 5.8 million subscribers and 2.5 billion views, as of August 28, 2024.

[7] Additionally, Key and Peele's sketches often poke fun at aspects of race relations in the modern-day United States, as well as Black American culture writ large.

In the last two seasons, the show eschewed a studio audience in favor of a pre-shot narrative, featuring the duo discussing a concept during a car ride through the Mojave Desert, as the introduction to their sketches.

Key appeared briefly in-character as Luther at the Annual White House Correspondents Dinner as an anger translator for the real Barack Obama in early 2015.

(He was put on the spot when questioned about his nonexistent son, and he was close to a plush doll of the character from The Ren & Stimpy Show.)

He proclaims that he has his eye on Jacqueline, asks Blake if he wants to go to war, and breaks a clipboard in front of Denise - forcing her to use the incorrect pronunciation of her name.

The only student Mr. Garvey seems to trust is an African American boy at the back of the class named Timothy (accent on the "o"), who is played by Peele.

During role-call, Aaron informs Mr. Garvey that some students need to leave class early, so that they can meet up with their clubs for yearbook photos.

Jacqueline nonetheless confirms that Aaron was referring to the students' school clubs, but Mr. Garvey continues to disallow their early exit.

For deceiving him into backing a club dedicated to a TV show, Mr. Garvey sends Aaron to Principal O'Shaughnessy's office out of rage and spite.

In November 2022, Key reprised the role in an advertisement for Paramount+, in which he teaches a mountaineering class consisting of various children's show characters.

They also take numerous selfies but delete the majority of them because they don't like how they look in them, notably including a picture that had already just been classified as evidence of a crime that they witnessed.

Played by Key, André is Meegan's equally loud, but far more intelligent and polite boyfriend who tends to take the fall for the conflicts she starts with others.

Played by Peele, Rafi is a baseball player who makes all his teammates uncomfortable in the locker room, because of his "slap-ass" addiction.

He uses "very scientific" methods to find black people (offering them beets, measuring their heads, jingling cat toys).

Played by Key and Peele, the two valets from the Berkshire Restaurant (who always use unnecessary plurals in names of people, places, or things) love discussing their favorite movie stars and characters.

Despite this, the valets mangle their names and films – such as "Liam Neesons" from Tooken, "Peter Dinkels" (who plays "Taiwan Lannister"), "Bruce Willies," "Michelle Pa-feiffers," "Timothy Elephants" and "Racist-Ass Melly Gibsons".

In addition, some West Team players come from non-university organizations, such as "Torque (Construction Noise) Lewith" of "Nevada State Penitentiary" and "Morse Code" of "Army/Navy Surplus Store".

The West Team’s introductions are always finalized by a white player with a more conventional name, such as "Dan Smith" of Brigham Young University.

[23] NBA player Metta World Peace (played by himself) delivers the "news," which usually takes the form of presenting bizarre hypothetical scenarios to the audience and his imagined approach to them.

Though they often strive to show how black Republicans are "very diverse", they are all shown to be similarly dressed in outdated fashion styles such as leather jackets, braided belts, dad jeans, and wire-rimmed glasses, in addition to all being married to white women.

The sketches involve members standing up to give speeches to each other, which only reinforce their uniformity as they all nod and clap at everything said, in the exact same manner.

"[27] Additionally, on April 25, 2015, during the White House Correspondents Dinner, Key reprised the role of Luther, President Obama's anger translator during the event.

On March 12, 2014, Comedy Central announced the network was developing an animated spinoff starring Vandaveon and Mike as 12-year-old hall monitors, in association with Key and Peele.

This includes the following: On September 25, 2012, Comedy Central and Paramount Home Entertainment released "Key and Peele – Season 1" on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.