- Welcome back to another installment of
"Mike and Van: The Ascension."
We're here to give you insider information
about Hollywood and its workings,
as well as us chronicling the time that we have spent
as writers on "Key & Peele."
We're just gonna take you deeper
and delve you deeper into the creative process
of how we're making this show better,
because, you know, frankly, it was okay.
It was a good show.
We're trying to make it a better show.
We're trying to help Key and Peele with it.
- You got animals, pigs, horses, mice.
Then you got the eagle.
And what the eagle does is, they fly over top.
They get to see everything below them.
- They looking at the entire picture.
They're looking at the whole farm.
- That's where we are.
- That's what we doing.
We straight up talking about some E-I-E-I-O.
- Dick eagles.
- We are dick eagles.
We're "deagles," if you will.
What we trying to do is run down there
and just like pick up dicks
and eat them out the water, like salmon.
- [screeching]
- So we gonna show you a clip really soon
where Mike is having a conversation.
- I don't know if I can set this up.
I had had some thoughts
about some of the prosthesis
for the--that's makeup effects.
- Mustaches and beards and whatnot.
- So I wanted to share them.
See what you think.
- Hey. - What's up, Keegan?
- What's it, again? Tell me your name.
- Mike. - Mike, that's right.
- Sorry about that.
What can I do you for?
- I got a couple notes.
- Okay, yeah, yeah, come in.
- You should do a pube beard.
- A what?
- Yo, you, you.
- Are you talking to me or to Scott?
- No, I'm talking to him, Scott.
You should do a pubes beard.
Just pubes. That's...
- Just keep doing what you're doing.
Just keep doing it.
- I was looking at the script, though, with Vandaveon.
- Yep.
- It's good. - Mm-hmm.
- Like, it's funny,
but it could be a little bit better, though.
- Mike, I really-- buddy, we're not--I...
A pube beard would probably be very funny
in a lot of instances, but I'm playing...
- [snickering]
Yeah, no, go on, go on.
- I'm just saying, if I had a pube beard,
I wouldn't wear it necessarily for this character.
It's just a surgeon. He's just a surgeon.
- Just like--can I finish?
Like, some way that y'all could just make it funnier, though.
- Here's something that I'm impressed
about this video in particular,
Mike, is your persistence,
and how you continue to go,
"Hey, I'm--you know, I have an agenda.
"I want to talk about these pube beards.
"People should be shaving hair off their balls
"and putting them on niggas' faces.
It's important."
- Just being clear of our vision.
- Mm-hmm, that's important.
And then I think Key was getting that,
and he was accepting and hearing the vision that he had in mind.
So you gonna see right now, in this sketch,
that it is sans pube beard,
a staple of definitely our style of comedy.
So, by all means, please, watch this...selection.
- You must be Liam.
- Hey, there, buddy, how are you feeling?
- I'm feeling...fine, Dr. Gupta, just fine.
- So now, straight up, like, as an exercise,
something I would encourage people to do is, now, like,
in your mind, re-watch that scene for yourself,
and imagine them having pube beards on,
especially that creepy-ass little boy.
Here we're gonna show you a picture right now
of what that would look like.
You see?
[laughter]
That's my shit!
- I told these niggas.
- [laughing]
- Told you that was funny. Told you that.
- He was right all along, man.
But listen.
We appreciate you doing the exercise
so that you can understand more about the nuances
and the subtleties of what Mike and I will be bringing
to any particular "Key & Peele" scene.
- Check it out.
- Hey, what's up? - Hey.
You still haven't really given me a clear answer
as to what the camera is for.