You know I’m running out of things to talk about when I’m reviewing the third season premiere of a Comedy Central sketch show. What’s next…grading cat videos on YouTube?
However, it helps that Key and Peele are consistently hilarious, and have competition only from Inside Amy Schumer in the “Best Sketch Show” on TV sweepstakes. Tonight’s season premiere had sketches that were inspired—–a suspicious hoodie sketch may be the only funny Trayvon Martin joke I’ve ever seen—–and K&P show off their knack for less-is-more timing. Whereas SNL may stretch a sketch out for five minutes, a skit tonight showing a very nervous man getting busted watching porn was hilarious precisely because it lasted for less than two minutes. By the time we even got used to the joke, it was over, and unlikely to be repeated. Comedy thrives on the shock of the new, and this is the rare sketch show that seems to understand that. Grade: B+