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People: ‘Key & Peele’ will end after this season

From Wire Reports

Comedy Central’s irreverent sketch comedy series “Key & Peele” will come to an end after this season, the network confirmed Sunday.

Co-creator and star Keegan-Michael Key told the online trade publication “The Wrap” that the decision to stop after the fifth season was his and Jordan Peele’s. Key said it will give him and Peele time to “explore other things.”

Among the show’s most popular sketches were the “East/West Bowl” and Luther, President Barack Obama’s Anger Translator – who even appeared at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this year.

The show won a Peabody Award in 2013 and received a handful of Emmy nominations this year, including Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Key.

Season five of “Key & Peele” is currently airing and will run into September.

Swedes test Snoop Dogg for drugs

Swedish police say they briefly held U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg on suspicion of drug use after he performed a concert near Stockholm.

National police spokesman Fredrik Wallen said a police patrol in the city of Uppsala, north of the capital, stopped a car in which Snoop Dog was a passenger on Saturday evening after the concert. Police questioned him at a local police station and tested him for suspected drug use.

Wallen said Sunday the rapper was later released and was free to leave the country. Test results would not be available for “some time,” he said.

He declined to give further details.

The birthday bunch

TV producer Norman Lear is 93. Actor Jerry Van Dyke is 84. Singer Bobbie Gentry is 71. Actress-director Betty Thomas is 68. Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming is 67. Singer Maureen McGovern is 66. Comedian-actress-writer Carol Leifer is 59. Comedian Bill Engvall is 58. Comedian Maya Rudolph is 43. MLB All-Star Alex Rodriguez is 40. Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is 38.