I was just reading a story in the New York Times (cue "boooooo" from Palin/McCain rallies) about how Kevin Smith's new movie, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," and David Wain's new movie, "Role Models," both star Judd Apatow regulars and have Apatow-esque plots and dialogue.
It just made me remember -- god, I love The State, and god, I love everything The State's members are up to now.
Kevin "Red-head Gay" Allison -- don't know, but it's probably cool
Michael Ian "Schwartz" Black -- I LOVE him on the "I Love (some decade)" shows
Ben Garant -- I LOVE him on Reno 911! (have you guys ever seen the episode where some guy wants the sheriffs to rescue his novel manuscript from a burning building and they make him describe it first, and then they all just go, "That's 'Frequency,' with Dennis Quaid"?)
Todd "Chicken Sandwich Carl" Holoubek -- I LOVE him as the NYU ITP equipment guy
Michael Patrick "Who?" Jann -- he was the tall guy, right?
Kerri "The Girl" Kenney -- her character on Reno 911! is one of the funniest things ever, especially when she dates that serial killer guy
Thomas "Jesus of Nazereth" Lennon -- okay, no wait, HIS character on Reno 911! is one of the funniest things ever, especially when he thinks that hunky guy is his son
Joe "Let's go to the zoo and watch the monkeys do it!" Lotruglio -- he's been in a few pretty good commercials, I guess
Ken "I wanna dip my balls in it" Marino -- steady work, and though I haven't yet seen "The Ten" (oh, the shame), he looked hilarious in the trailer
Michael "Doug" Showalter -- arguably the most successful mainstream actor of the bunch, though not so great in his ouevre, "The Baxter"
David "Crispy Puffs: They're Pretty Good!" Wain -- actually the most successful, he directed most of The State's episodes, "Wet Hot American Summer," "The Ten," and now "Role Models," a real, well promote movie; plus, he was hilarious on Reno 911! when he was pretending to be a special needs person just so he could get someone to wash his balls
I love you all!!
3 comments:
--The Ten had some hilarious parts. Go on watch it, now, get.
--Paul Rudd in The Baxter, C'mon! How about that rediculuous game they played with their arms? C'mon, pretty funny.
--Wet Hot American Summer is among the best comedies ever.
--Michael Ian Black's new book is quite funny. Particularly essays on Taco Party and DJ Names.
--But, we just watched a movie he co-wrote called Run Fatboy Run - very bad.
We saw a sneak preview of "The Ten," shown as the finale of the international film festival here before it came out. Oh man was it the wrong choice. I thought it was hillarious, but some of the humor was sooo inappropriate.
The intellectual film snobs who showed up for the closing night not knowing what to expect were clearly very uncomfortable. A number of people actually booed when the movie ended.
That, friends, is art.
In other news I saw Ken Marino in some cheesy romance movie on the Hallmark channel. Bad move, Paisano. "Diggers" was pretty good though.
I missed the David Wain episode of Reno, I will look for it.
Unexpected scene-stealer in The Ten: Liev Schreiber (sp?)
All of their stuff, but especially Stella, makes me wonder how they can keep such straight faces.
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