"The State" Of Comedy - with Michael Ian Black
Hey Dude... The 90s Called!
YMG
4.6 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Michael Ian Black joins David and Christine to talk about the origins of The State, the chaos behind Wet Hot American Summer, awkward onscreen makeout scenes, comedy in the ’90s, and why “just messing around” somehow turned into an iconic career.
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| 0:00.0 | Yay Media Group |
| 0:03.3 | The kids in the hall routinely would do drag, and when they would do drag, because there were five guys, they would really make an effort. |
| 0:12.3 | And like you'd see Dave Foley in a dress or something, and he was really doing a good job playing a female. |
| 0:20.5 | We made the choice of when we did drag, which we had to do, because there was only |
| 0:24.1 | one girl in our group, we wouldn't make no effort, almost no effort to be feminine in any way, |
| 0:30.9 | shape, or form. |
| 0:42.9 | Hey, dude. I think the 90s are calling. |
| 0:50.2 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:53.3 | Welcome back to Hey Dude, the 90s called podcast. |
| 0:57.7 | I am Christine Taylor, and I am here with my partner in nostalgia, David Lashar. Hello, hello. Hi. Miss Queen of the Met Gala, |
| 1:05.4 | we got to talk about this because you were all over the TV and the news. |
| 1:12.1 | And you looked gorgeous. |
| 1:13.6 | Oh my God. It was a week. |
| 1:16.0 | Well, it was, yeah, it was a week. |
| 1:19.1 | It seemed. |
| 1:19.8 | Let me just say this. |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah, tell us, because it seems like a lot. |
| 1:22.7 | It seems intimidating. |
| 1:23.8 | It's a lot. |
| 1:24.4 | And that's the thing. |
| 1:25.4 | We had been to it two times before, but like long time ago. The last time we went was 10 years ago. And this year, we got invited to go a dear friend of ours who is a designer in the tech industry. He actually, family friend, someone we've known, he and his wife and kids for years and years, designed the iPhone actually. |
| 1:47.6 | Sir Johnny Hyde. |
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