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Remember that video I posted yesterday with all the funny people talking about how important Monty Python was to them? Yeah, well, I'm younger than them, so the life-changing comedy troupe for me was The State. So you can imagine how exciting it is for me that they're reuniting for this year's San Francisco Sketchfest and potentially for more projects. Anyway, they did a great interview with Rolling Stone that you should read right away. Here, look:

Besides fights, what else would be in the VH1:

Behind the Laughs special on the State?

Kenney-Silver:

I introduced the group to this woman who worked at Warner Brothers

and she said, "Lets do a comedy record." So we were like, "Oooh,

we're famous." So they gave us a budget which we quickly, literally

put in our pockets, ran to the Bahamas, and got drunk and recorded

an album with. We spent four dollars on the recording and $500,000

or whatever they gave us on the plane ticket and the cocktails.

Lennon:

We decided, since nothing eleven people do is profitable, we might

as well at least have a really fucking fun time, so let's go to

where U2 records.

Wain:

Basically we went down there and we would spend the day swimming

and snorkeling and gambling and eating and having fun and go out at

night and go to casinos and stuff and then about midnight we'd grab

some drinks and go into the recording studio and lay down some

stuff.

Kenney-Silver:

You could literally hear ice tinkling in the record. We did one

sketch where Michael Jann was so drunk that he threw up in a chair

while we were recording. We couldn't get his headphones off of him

because his arms were in front of him with the vomit in his

hands.

Michael

Ian Black: I was actually really miserable making the

State CD. I felt like I was at a low point in my relationship with

the group. There were some fun things. I think I really started to

develop my gambling addiction there, which was good.

If that doesn't make you want to read the whole interview, I guess I just don't even want to know you.

Oh, and sorry I didn't make any jokes in this post. Sometimes I really just need to cut to the chase and give you people the straight dope. If it'll make you feel better, maybe try rereading it and making a queef noise after each sentence.