It's not sketch comedy but isn't a sitcom either. More like a spazzedy.

I saw part of this last night. I thought it was really unfunny but I never really liked The State either so...

I don't know how many episodes I'd want to watch if it stays "three Mr. Beans" kind of humor, but I liked the first one. Might get tiresome after awhile.

The only sketches I saw last night were the one with the landlord (the part about him being Josef Mengele was mildly funny) and that last part where they were in the truck, which was just dumb.

i loved "the state" and think "stella" is abominable. my friends think i'm some anomaly.

Well, they're going to be playing the same three characters throughout the series and there will be on ongoing storylines, so there might be time for the show to get interesting. Individual scenes might be duds as stand-alone sketches, but it looks like it's not going to be a sketch show. More like Strangers With Candy/The Young Ones kind of retarded continuity.

anyone notice the hot chick from the chappelle's show sketch for the "love contract"...she was one of the three girl roomates..whoever that is, she is mad hot.

I do not have cable or a dish, so I have no idea what the hell conversations like this mean. And yet I still keep clicking on them, and even post in them once in a while.

Does this have anything to do with Marlon Brando?

It's a new sketch comedy show by some ex-members of The State that was on MTV.

What is this M-T-V that you speak of?

Europe's High Life

Yes! So was the third girl roommate who had no lines.

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come on now, it's not that good.

I laughed. Michael Ian Blak is pure gold... PURE!

i was drunk and high when i saw it, but i laughed my ass off through the whole thing.

I was given a DVD of the premiere episode and thought it was lacking. If anyone would like it, you're more than welcomed to it. If not, it's going in the trash.

I watched about 5 minutes of them doing the three-man stand up stuff, and changed the channel because it bored the hell out of me. If I'm feeling ambitious, I'll give it another chance sometime soon.

i really really hope this gets better. i loved the state so much.

it's obvious that they've been doing this on stage and getting huge laughs with it. Unfortunately that doesn't always translate very well to TV. hopefully it'll taper into it's own pace.

David Wain cracked me the fuck up though. I hope that Baxter movie doesn't is as good as i'm building myself up to be disappointed by...

Now, is all this State love some breed of retro-kitsch reimagining, or something? I ask because I recall, at the time the show was airing in first-runs on MTV, then getting transferred to CBS to try to put something together to face-off against SNL, that most acknowledged that Statism was crap. Hopelessly dry and terribly paced were the adjectives I remember being used in reviews.

Maybe I was just too young to get critical irony and dead-pan -- though with that descriptor, I am probably being generous -- jokes, though. But, yeah...

hmmm...i don't know...i haven't seen even a snippet since it was on MTV back in the day. don't even remember the transfer to CBS, so maybe i stopped watching before it got real shitty.
but my friends and i still quote sketches: doug; capt. monterrey jack; louie; etc. so it's still funny as hell in my mind.

but i guess the same thing happened with the ben stiller show. i thought i loved it soooo much, then i watched one of the seasons when it finally came out on dvd, and i didn't laugh once. i wanted to kill that damn sock puppet.

Not Olly, though, I hope. Sifl was the ass of the puppets.... Oh. Different show. Sorry.

But: Sifl & Olly is another of those shows that lived fast, died young, and were not much appreciated -- critically, or by audiences -- but today it lives on due to... Some sort of warping of the past to make ourselves feel like we were happy getting stoned on the couch in the rec-room while watching stupid tee-vee shows and shot-gunning grifted Coors Lite?

Yes, yes... I'm a contrarian. But I'm cuddly too.

Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter are awesome, reason enough to watch the show. Wet Hot American Summer (the UNEDITED version) is one of the best comedies of the past 5 years, so it's great to see more material by that team. I'll probably like The Baxter more than Stella however.

I'm not sure about the character David Wain has created for himself, though...