Apr 21, 2021
RTA – Jay Martel (Key and Peele, Alternatino, The Present, and Strangers With Candy)
“There’s nothing better than satirizing what’s going on right now and knowing that thousands of people are reading it. ” - Jay Martel
Today I interviewed Jay Martel.
JAY MARTEL is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, director, actor, and TV producer. The science-fiction comic novel “Channel Blue” was published by Head of Zeus in 2013, and “The Present” was released as an Audible Original in March of 2021. He’s a contributor to The New Yorker. As a journalist and critic, he’s written for Rolling Stone, Vogue, GQ, TV Guide.
Martel served as a show-runner, executive producer and writer for the award-winning sketch show “Key & Peele,” and many other comedies, including “Alternatino,” “Teachers,” “Halfway Home,” and “Strangers With Candy.” He has created numerous series for MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. For his work in television, Martel has received Emmy, WGA, Peabody and Comedy awards.
He has worked extensively as a writer, producer and pres…