Key & Peele's "Mattress Shopping" sketch revolves around an unusual method of testing out a new bed - which takes something of a dark twist. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele both featured on Mad TV before launching their self-titled sketch series on Comedy Central in 2012. Their skits were endlessly inventive and hilarious, with the duo also getting to display a wide variety of comic characters over the course of its run.
Key & Peele spawned a lot of classic sketches too, including The Shining-inspired "Continental Breakfast," "Aerobics Meltdown" and the oh so relatable "Text Message Confusion." The series ran for five seasons, with the pair later appearing together in 2016 comedy Keanu and as Ducky and Bunny in Toy Story 4. Peele has famously switched careers from comedy star to horror auteur in recent years, helming the acclaimed Get Out and Us, while Key has appeared in Playing With Fire and Friends From College.
Key & Peele had plenty of sketches that subverted expectations, from "MC Mom" to "LMFAO's Non-Stop Party." The "Mattress Shopping" skit opens with a sound comic premise, where Peele's somewhat timid customer comes to a mattress store and tells Key's salesman he's looking for something "sturdy," as things apparently got pretty crazy in his room.
Key shows Peele his first recommendation, with Peele promptly jumping on the mattress and acting out an enthusiastic bout of sex while yelling obscenities. He then declares the mattress is "too hard," and while Key's salesman is understandably unnerved by what he's just seen, this act repeats itself a few times before Peele's customer finds just the right one. Key & Peele's "Mattress Shopping" sketch delivers on the expected cringey awkwardness, and while Peele's mix of soft-spoken dialogue with aggressive yelling is suitably hilarious, it's Key's understated horror at what he's witnessing that really sells it.
Key & Peele's "Mattress Shopping" also ends on something of a dark twist, revealing Peele's character bought the mattress because his neighbors are the ones having noisy, room-shaking sex, which rocks his bed while he listens in horror. It's not one of Key & Peele's classic skits but it showed how they were able to take a simple idea and max out its comic potential. It does beg the question of why Peele's customer couldn't just move his bed to the other side of the room away from the offending wall - but then the comic payoff wouldn't have worked in that case.
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