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Actor/comedian Keegan-Michael Key says he doesn’t see Jordan Peele that often anymore, which to him is “a tragedy.”

Key told People that when he first met Peele, “it was a thrilling time in my life.”

They had first crossed paths in 2004 when they starred together on Fox‘s MADtv, where they were “sharing a mind.” They would later launch their sketch comedy series Key & Peele, which ran from 2012-2015 on Comedy Central.

“We lived together for a few months and would write and talk about comedy — who we liked and why we liked them and how that worked in the architecture of what we were trying to build comedically,” he says.

Both had previously trained at Chicago’s Second City and therefore seemed to share “a creative language,” says Key, adding “when we were on camera, it was alchemy. It was just like, ‘Why is this working?’”

Unfortunately, Key says since their sketch comedy series ended nearly a decade ago, “we don’t see each other that often anymore.” He added: “Which is, to me, a tragedy.”

After the duo became famous through their sketch comedy series, they also starred together in the 2016 action-comedy film Keanu. They also reunited in the first season of FX’s Fargo and voiced a pair of characters in 2019’s Toy Story 4 and 2022’s Wendell & Wild.

However, as Key notes, “your lives start to evolve and move in different directions.” Peele and wife Chelsea Peretti live in Los Angeles while Key and his wife Elle are in New York City, he adds.

“Our evolution, I think, is tied to both of what our desires are,” continued the Transformers One star. “His desire was to start exploring the horror genre, and my desire was to do more dramatic work like I had been trained in school.”

After Key & Peele’s success, “both of us jumped to another platform — but we needed that first platform.”

Key says some of that evolution is evident in their sketch series. “I was playing the clown more and doing more physical comedy in the beginning of our time together, and then I found myself evolving into playing more of the straight roles and teeing up Jordan to play the clown.”

He adds that Season 1 of the show doesn’t contain “a lot of improvising.”

“It wasn’t till the second season, third season that [we’d] loosen up and improvise” he added. “And we wrote some sketches that were just very strange and weird. And that was a fun part of the evolution.”

Key’s latest project is Transformers One, in which he voices B-127 a.k.a. Bumblebee. The film, which is now in theaters, also features the voices of Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, and Scarlett Johansson.