The State

'Shoplifters of the World,‘ the film about an armed Smiths fan who takes control of a radio station and forces the DJ to play The Smiths at gunpoint, has been in the works for a while and is finally coming out this month...

“Festpocalypse“ will also feature Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Patton Oswalt, Paget Brewster, Ron Funches, Eddie Izzard, Weird "Al" Yankovic, Paul F Tompkins, Jane Lynch, Doug Benson, Kumail Nanjiani, Christopher Guest, Jon Hamm, Fred Armisen, and much more.

plus Britt Daniel of Spoon, Bonnie Raitt, Pedro the Lion, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

Al calls his impersonation of The Nuge "scarily accurate." The new Reno 911 premieres May 4 on Quibi.

Having just posted about The State's online reunion today, we'd be remiss not to mention that Reno 911, the '00s-era COPS-spoof created by the comedy troupe's Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Robert Ben Garant, is back too...

Michael Showalter refers to ”Porcupine Racetrack” as ”The Sgt. Pepper’s of The State’s sketch canon.” Watch the new quarantine made version of it now.

One of the undisputed heavyweights of televised sketch comedy, right up there with greats like Mr. Show with Bob and David, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and The Kids in the Hall, is The State, which broadcast on MTV for 4 seasons totaling 28 episodes from 1993 - 1995...

Comedian and actor Michael Ian Black (The State, Wet Hot American Summer) releases his new memoir, Navel Gazing, this week. It's actually his second memoir (You're Not Doing It Right came out in 2012), and is subtitled "True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (but also my mom's, which I know sounds weird)...

The film Wet Hot American Summer came out Summer 2001 and didn't do much at the box office but had cult hit written all over it. A satire of '80s summer camp movies, it was written and Michael Showalter of The State and featured most of the rest of that comedy in the cast...

Tenacious D's Festival Supreme is back for a second year, this time happening at LA Sports Arena & Exposition Park on October 25. The laffstravaganza (with music too) features over 40 performers, and if you are into comedy it's a pretty "holy crap" lineup, including The State, Workaholics, Metalocalypse, Cheech & Chong, The Eagles of Death Metal, The Dan Band, Peaches, Doug Benson, Dr...