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Making "History of Sketch Comedy" into a book: Elle and Keegan-Michael Key

Keegan-Michael Key was the ideal candidate to pen "The History of Sketch Comedy."

On a recent phone chat from their New York City residence

where the couple — who wed in 2018 — lives, Keegan-Michael Key recalls

"Elle pitched me, gosh, what was it, seven and a half, eight years ago," "I was unwilling.

Do you want to write a book? Why, exactly, write a book? That takes effort.

She, however, wasn't about to let this veteran of the sketch comedy TV shows "MAD TV" and "Key & Peele

 which he co-created with Jordan Peele, off the hook so easily.

you can really help me, I said. 'I'll help you a lot,' she says.