Comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have been garnering a cult following for years, first at Chicago’s famed comedy troupe Second City, then as part of the Mad TV ensemble and for the past five years with their own Comedy Central show, Key & Peele. Coming of age in the Obama era, the bi-racial comedians have come to embody the cultural zeitgeist of “post-racial” America with uproarious sketches in which they turn cultural and ethnic stereotypes on their ear. Now they set their comedic talents loose on the big screen with New Line’s Keanu, which sends the duo on a life-or-death quest to save a kitten in gang infested territory. The premise, as Jordan Peele told us, is really a pretext to set in motion a characteristically anarchic romp culminating in an epic showdown between gangsta life and nerd-dom. When they stopped by to chat with us we asked them about their nerditude, why they chose to play it safe with the gangsta-kitten genre and what the Commander in Chief might think of their film.