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Pizza Order
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Wendell Sanders phones Mario's Pizza and orders pie after pie with pineapple and cheesy crust, pausing to poll a roomful of party guests who turn out to be the fantasy figurines arranged around him in his dim living room. When he mentions that a guest named Claire approved of the crust, clerk Carlos grows curious about her. Wendell tries to put him off with crude boasts about Claire, his own conquests and an imaginary perfect girlfriend, but Carlos answers with a sincere speech about destiny and their shared moment over the crust. Cornered, Wendell abruptly claims Claire has been shot through the window, leaving Carlos screaming in anguish while Wendell calmly decides to order Chinese food instead.
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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
You know what? Let me gauge the room.
Body, ten. Face, ten.
Oh, my God! Claire just got shot!
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Peter Atencio
Director

Andy Cobb
Writer

Rebecca Drysdale
Writer

Colton Dunn
Writer

Keegan-Michael Key
Writer

Jay Martel
Writer

Jordan Peele
Writer

Ian Roberts
Writer

Alex Rubens
Writer

Charlie Sanders
Writer

Rich Talarico
Writer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
This sketch is the first appearance of Jordan Peele's recurring character Wendell Sanders, who later returned in sketches such as "The Power of Wings" and "Sex Addict Wendell." Pop Thruster ranked it second among all 351 Key & Peele sketches.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:03
Carlos
Hello, thanks for calling Mario's Pizza. This is Carlos speaking.
- 00:07
Wendell Sanders
Hello. We would like a large pie with pepperoni pineapple and cheesy crust.
- 00:16
Carlos
Large pepperoni with pineapple and cheesy crust.
- 00:19
Wendell Sanders
We would also like a large pie with bacon pineapple and cheesy crust.
- 00:27
Carlos
Large bacon pineapple with cheesy crust. Okay, is that going to complete your order, sir?
- 00:31
Wendell Sanders
You know what? Let me gauge the room. Uh, guys, are we gonna want another pizza? Let me just... Who's hungry? Show of hands. Let me see them. One, two, three. Keep them up. Four, five, six.
- 00:44
Carlos
Ah, having a party.
- 00:45
Wendell Sanders
Yep, pretty big one, too. Come on, guys, keep them up. Hugo, Summer, hands, food. You know what? Let's play it safe. Let's get another pie. Over here. Ham.
- 00:57
Carlos
Oh, you guys are gonna need cheesy crust on the third.
- 01:00
Wendell Sanders
Good question. I'll gauge the room. Hey, guys, do we want Cheesy Crust on the third? Okay, yeesh. That is a resounding yes for Cheesy Crust on the third. Claire says you read her mind.
- 01:14
Carlos
Claire, huh? I like that name.
- 01:16
Wendell Sanders
It's a good one. Oh, also, my boy Andy over here is saying you have something called chicken poppers?
- 01:23
Carlos
Is she cute?
- 01:24
Wendell Sanders
Uh, who's that and what now?
- 01:25
Carlos
Claire.
- 01:26
Wendell Sanders
Oh. Her body's like a fork. Anyway, we would also...
- 01:33
Carlos
I-I... you mean?
- 01:38
Wendell Sanders
Let's just say she's kind of a big girl.
- 01:40
Carlos
That's all good. That's all superficial, man. I like Claire for what's inside.
- 01:44
Wendell Sanders
Don't even know Claire.
- 01:45
Carlos
Yo, but for real, though, I feel like I do know Claire, man. Put me on the phone with her.
- 01:52
Wendell Sanders
Uh... You don't need to speak to Claire.
- 01:56
Carlos
No, I do.
- 02:00
Wendell Sanders
You know what? I got a level with you, man. I... her.
- 02:06
Carlos
Oh, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get in between you guys.
- 02:11
Wendell Sanders
No, it's quite all right. It was a while ago before she blimped up. My current girlfriends live, body tan, face tan. But anyway, Claire, yeah, I hit that sexually. And as did my boy Hugo. Hell, even Bubba got some of that. So, just wanted you to know, used goods, used goods.
- 02:41
Carlos
So you wouldn't care if I asked her out?
- 02:45
Wendell Sanders
Well, let me do it for you. Hey, Claire, this guy from the pizza place wants to date you too, poor. All right, I'll let him down easy.
- 02:52
Carlos
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no. Tell her that, no, I'm not a rich man, but I'm a good man. Tell her,
- 03:02
Carlos
Claire, I believe in destiny. And I believe that we've always known that our soulmate was out there the moment that we had that unspoken connection about the cheesy crust I Realized that you were always the one because
- 03:19
Carlos
And I know this sounds corny but that moment was just like simple. Simple you
- 03:36
Wendell Sanders
Wow, you really do care about Claire.
- 03:39
Carlos
I do
- 03:42
Carlos
What
- 03:45
Wendell Sanders
no, I just came through the window and there was a bull in the air and a cop, Oh, Claire's down. She's dead. She's dead.
- 03:52
I'm calling the cops.
- 03:53
Wendell Sanders
she's dead.
- 03:53
Carlos
No!
- 04:03
Wendell Sanders
Chinese, Chinese it is.
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