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Hold Me Back

Key & Peele
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A would-be tough guy needs his friend to stop a nightclub fight, but his friend takes the instructions far too literally.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

After bumping into an intimidating stranger at a nightclub, a man tries to preserve his tough image while relying on his friend to keep him out of a fight. His friend keeps taking the bluster as a sincere invitation to attack, forcing him to invent increasingly unlikely reasons he cannot advance. When the friend finally understands the performance, he gets carried away demonstrating how effortlessly he can restrain him, provoking the very fight he was supposed to prevent.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 3

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

You lucky my boy's using his telekinetic powers to hold me back right now.

I can't believe I'm this strong.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The imposing nightclub patron is played by mixed martial artist Houston Alexander.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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