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Who do you have to blow to get some love for "The State"?
Michael Showalter is fast becoming the world's foremost comedian interviewer of other comedians (see: the best web talk show: College Humor's The Michael Showalter Showalter.)
This time, he's interviewing MTV's sketch comedy group Human Giant (Rob Huebel, Aziz Ansari and Paul Scheer) for Radar Magazine. The interview starts out interesting but normal, and then suddenly takes a confrontational turn:
Showalter: "So when Radar asked me to do this interview, I was like, "This is great," because I feel like I have a kinship with you guys because you're doing a sketch show on MTV and obviously I did a sketch show on MTV. But then I was reading some of your interviews and a lot of people ask you what your influences are and you never mention The State. And I just wanted to know what was up with that."
SCHEER: "Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa!"
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hey guys,
it's called comedy.
He was playing
so awkward… i feel like showalter wasn't joking by the end there.
"We should give everybody a one-page answer to these questions and then say, "Interview us after you read this."
Well, sorry to BOTHER you with questions for new audiences. The interviewer is not asking you these questions for him/herself. They're interviewing you to bring knowledge about YOU to (new) audiences. Appreciate that instead of complaining about it.
Do you think he was really mad/hurt? I think he was playing.
showalter's ego is bigger than his comedy