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TV Media Weekly|September 15 - 21, 2012 Stars on Screen By Sheila Busteed TV Media VIP LAUGHS:As America revs up for the upcoming presidential election, Comedy Central is bring- ing back two hilarious men who have made waves by poking fun at the current commander-in- chief. The cabler recently announced it is renewing "Key & Peele" for a sophomore season,which will de- but Wednesday, Sept. 26, follow- ing "South Park."The show, which stars improv greats Kee- gan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, will welcome several recog- nizable guest stars in Season 2 to be a part of new sketches. The episodes will feature guest appearances by fellow improv ge- nius Wayne Brady ("Who's Line Is It Anyway,""Trust Us With Your Life") as well as Kevin Sorbo ("Hercules:The Legendary Jour- neys,""Andromeda"),Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian in "Star Wars") and Brenda Song ("The Suite Life of Zack and Cody,"2008's "The Social Net- work"). "Key & Peele" will also wel- come back Rob Delaney ("Coma, Period."),who was featured in two episodes in the show's first season. Sunday morning|7 New sketches will continue with the show's pattern of poking fun at trendy people and things in today's popular culture.The stars will mock the studio reunion of Rhianna and Chris Brown by cre- ating an uncomfortable music video.They'll also demonstrate how hilarious it would be to see two gangsters bonding over their love for the "Twilight" series.An- other sketch will depict an en- counter with racist zombies. In the new season,the leading men will also expand on existing characters made popular in Sea- son 1,including the parody of Barack Obama and his fictional anger translator, Luther.This video has attracted millions of viewers on the Internet. Key and Peele both got their start as stars of "MADtv"and have since been featured in sever- al other TV shows and on the sil- ver screen. FISH OUT OF WATER:Now that swimmer Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian of all time,he'll be spending some down time working on a different kind of stroke. The Golf Channel recently an- nounced that Phelps has signed

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