Five-season 'Key and Peele' to go out on a high

First airing in 2012, the five-season sketch show series set to come to an end in September, achieved major recognition during its run.

Portrayals of the calm, collected US president Barack Obama and his raging assistant Luther, substitute teachers Mr Garvey and Mr Nostrand, a pair of hotel valets, and contrasting couple Andre and Meegan numbered among their most popular characters.

With Comedy Central uploading clips to YouTube and its own website, the duo also spread the character caricature love through other avenues, such as the Epic Rap Battles channel: peaceful protest advocates Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. faced off in heated confrontation, while Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali fought for the title of greatest sportsman on earth.

The 2013 Primetime Emmy nominations brought with them a nod the craft category for Outstanding Makeup.

The following year saw the show collect a distinguished Peabody Award, Key and Peele praised for their ability to entertain and inform using characters drawn from across the racial spectrum, "tackl[ing] racially charged issues and ideas like no one else on television."

Fast forward to 2015 and the series is up for no less than eight Emmys, from nominations in Makeup and Hairstyling to Writing, Acting, and the Short Format Live Action Entertainment category.

So with season five ending in September, what's next for Key and Peele?

Much like fellow Comedy Central essential Amy Schumer, who wrote and starred in "Trainwreck," they're looking at movies as a part of their shared future.

"We might make a movie and then do our own thing for three years and then come back and do another movie," said Key in a statement to TheWrap.

"I'm thinking we could do that every three years -- take a year, go bang out a movie. That's the plan right now."

One of those movies looks like it will be cat-rescuing comedy "Keanu," due April 2016, which was co-written by Peele and co-stars Key.

Peele also has a role in the 2016 "Angry Birds" film locked, while Key is set for 2017 animated comedy "Captain Underpants."

"We're doing the reboot of ‘Police Academy,' and there's a TV show in the works that me might do for Comedy Central," said Key. "There's lots of stuff we have cooking up."