For more than eight years, Jared Keeso and Jacob Tierney worked closely together writing and/or directing Letterkenny, a Canadian comedy set in a rural Ontario town populated by, as its opening title card explained, "hicks, skids, hockey players and Christians," adapted from a web series Keeso created. Both had on-camera roles: Keeso as the show's hero, farmer Wayne, simultaneously stoic and a wisecracker; and Tierney as Glen, the town's obviously closeted minister. The show was a joyous confection of wordplay and running gags, finding new and hilarious ways to make the repetition of a joke the funniest thing about it. Keeso and Tierney were obviously a great team.
Keeso also played a second role on Letterkenny as Shoresy, a minor league hockey player with a high-pitched voice whose face was always hidden by a visor, and who mostly popped up to torment the other hockey players with taunts about having sex with their moms. As the parent series was winding down, Keeso decided that Shoresy, of all people, was the Letterkenny character best-suited to carrying his own show. Tierney came along for the ride for a while, directing every episode of the first two Shoresy seasons, in addition to playing a small recurring role as a local hockey announcer. Eventually, though, he moved on to create his own series set in the world of ice hockey. You might have heard of it: Heated Rivalry.
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When longtime creative partners split up to do separate projects, you can often get a better sense of what each brought to the team, and also of where their interests do and don't overlap. By the end of the original run of Outkast, Andre 3000 and Big Boi's musical tastes had diverged to the point where their "double album" Speakerboxx/The Love Below album is really two separate solo albums in different genres. When The Office creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant went off to make their own shows, it was clear that most of the comic construction of that series came from Merchant, while Gervais was most interested in making viewers uncomfortable. Post-Key and Peele, Keegan-Michael Key has kept doing comedy, while Jordan Peele has become a horror movie auteur.
Now we've got Keeso and Tierney each making a hockey show, kind of.