The first week after my season ended has been a relaxing one. A full weekend of football and baseball was wonderful, plus six months worth of DVDs and books that need to be dusted off and caught up on. I have spent alot of my DVD time watching "The State," a sketch comedy show that ran in the mid-90's on MTV. This was, hands-down, the funniest sketch show on TV during that time- SNL was in a severe down cycle (pre-Will Ferrell), The Daily Show (and Comedy Central, for that matter) was not on the radar, and the Internet was just getting started. And this 11-person group was hilarious, and most of it still holds up today. The State tended to avoid topical humor, not wanting to seem dated just a few years later. And how right they were! As funny as Dana Carvey doing George Bush on SNL was, it seems like a million years ago now.
Younger fans would recognize some of the group from "Reno 911" (of which I am not a fan). "Michael & Michael Have Issues" is a funny show currently airing on Comedy Central featuring two of The State. But do yourself a favor- put this The State on your Netflix list and get ready to laugh your ass off. Here's one sketch to get you started:
2 comments:
hilarious! i need to find this somewhere, or reactivate my old netflix account!
I absolutely LOVED this when it was on. In fact, we were in NYC once with Matt B and Matt jumped out of the car and screamed "That's Ian Black from the State". He was just strolling down a dark street in TriBeca by himself!
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