150. Michael Ian Black: How to Do Comedy with Your 10 Best Friends

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In the 90s, Michael Ian Black’s college sketch group The State got a show on MTV, spawned another iconic group, Stella, and led to the classic movie Wet Hot American Summer. Now Michael sits down with Mike to talk about how all 11 members of The State have remained friends through the ups and downs of show business. Michael shares his advice on how to keep a comedy group together as well as a marriage, as he and his wife just celebrated 26 years. Plus, jokes and stories about truth or dare, the pros and cons of leaving New York City, and behind the scenes of Michael’s love scene with Bradley Cooper.

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0:00.0	The state was doing a show at South by Southwest.
0:03.8	We'd seen a sketch group before us, or maybe even a couple,
0:07.6	and they had done a gag about getting naked or something,
0:12.1	but they didn't get naked.
0:13.5	And so we were like, we had the conversation.
0:15.6	Like, why would you, like, go 80% of the way there?
0:18.5	Yeah, yeah.
0:19.2	And not go...
0:20.1	Not get naked.
0:20.7	So we wrote a sketch for south by southwest
0:23.0	where we all got fully naked on stage but that that was our mentality it was like no if you're
0:28.9	going to say you're going to do it do it and then go a little further that is the voice of the great Michael Ian Black.
0:40.2	I have been waiting for so long to have Michael Ian Black on this podcast.
0:44.8	He is one of my favorite comedians and actors and sketch comedians and writers of all time.
0:51.6	I have been a fan of his since the 1990s. When I was in college,
0:55.6	he was on an iconic MTV sketch show called The State, which we talk about a lot today.
1:02.7	After that, he was in a group called Stella with Michael Showalter and David Wayne. If you're
1:08.3	not familiar with Stella and the State, you have to go on YouTube and just
1:14.4	look up some of these things. These guys were really pioneers in this space of they would make
1:20.5	short films like every week. And then they would premiere the short film at their show,
1:26.9	the live show, at the Time Cafe.
1:28.3	And it was really like, it's something that people today do very commonly on Instagram and
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