The State - Season 1 (1994)
Each episode contains 30 minutes of extremely bizarre and funny sketch comedy performed by THE STATE, an 11 member sketch comedy troupe who wrote and starred in various sketches seen throughout the program.
9 August 1970, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 November 1962, New York City, New York, USA
19 December 1968, Long Island, New York, USA
14 September 1970, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA
1 August 1969, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
15 May 1970, Albany, New York, USA
19 August 1967, San Antonio, Texas, USA
12 August 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 January 1970, Westport, Connecticut, USA
28 February 1955, Brooklyn, New York, USA
20 February 1978, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
September 17, 2018
In spite of the plethora of amateur devices and the inevitable tonal conflicts, it's astounding how much of the show still works without feeling derivative or facile.
September 17, 2018
The first season in particular plays like a rock 'n' roll Gen-X juggernaut paced to accommodate the short attention spans of Ritalin-addled teens. Even if a sketch didn't work, a new one was always just a few minutes away.
September 17, 2018
The show's full of absurdity for absurdity's sake, and not much else.
September 17, 2018
The State may not be the most influential sketch-comedy troupe, but it's certainly the most sketch-comedy troupe.
September 17, 2018
Apes the sporadically funny Kids in the Hall while being significantly less than sporadically funny.
September 13, 2018
The humor of this early Nineties MTV show was just like the ensemble of 11 recent NYU grads: precocious, clever and a touch bratty.
