The State was founded at New York University in 1988. They created the videos for “You Wrote It, You Watch It”, a sketch show hosted by Jon Stewart in 1992. They created the TV show for MTV from 1993 to 1995. Since then, the members have collaborated on many projects including the Wet Hot American Summer franchise, Reno 911, The Ten, Children’s Hospital, Party Down, Burning Love, and many more.

Jesus has gathered with all his disciples to the last supper. Judas announces that he invited Louie, the guy who constantly says his catch phrase. Jesus says, “you mean the dip my balls in it guy?” Then, Louie takes the stage with great enthusiasm and asks if anyone has a bowl of something. “I have a bowl of baba ghanoush!” “I’m gonna dip my balls in it!” says Louie. This continues many times with different bowls to the amusement of everyone. See Season One, Episode Two for the first appearance of “Louie”.

They also showed a few clips from “You Wrote It, You Watch It”. One of them features a cop testifying in court about a guy he pulled over that was so drunk that he kept falling on him. Everyone in the courtroom is laughing and the cop grabs a mic and starts a hilarious stand up routine.

Michael Showalter was not in attendance, so they decided to have an audience member play “Doug”. They give him a script, but then each time he speaks, they quickly interrupt him to give him notes. “Doug” also first appears in Season One, Episode Two.

Ken Marino is absolutely hilarious as Louie and the cop testifying. Michael Ian Black is hilarious as the husband asking the mailman, played by Kevin Allison, to stop delivering them tacos instead of the mail. Thomas Lennon is fantastic as the old fashioned host of the porno radio show. David Wain is so funny as the host of a show who can’t believe his guest, played by Joe Lo Truglio, is actually blind. Michael Patrick Jann and Kerri Kenney are also solid in their many roles.

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Quinn Delaney