Don't forget Moonstruck!

At least Biden is well on his way to demoting the job description of the Vice Presidency from "master of the universe" back down to where it should be: "master of meaningless stuff the president doesn't have time for and looking presidential enough to christen new buildings and boats and shake hands with world leaders…

Sheesh!

"washing their breasts in the sink" may be the single funniest thing I have seen/heard/read all month. I might actually go do just that just so I can laugh once more…

Yeah, Little Britain gets pretty tiresome pretty quickly. Of course David Walliams has a life-long pass from me for having appeared in Spaced…

@W.Y.M.M. : That's what the "etc…" is for. I certainly did not mean to encompass all of sketch comedy with those 5 shows! Just that there seems to be universal acclaim for them (well, SNL in it's first 5 years anyway).

The Canon
Finally we can evaluate the show and rank it within the great sketch comedy canon! (Now THERE'S an idea for a AV Club feature!) Where will The State rank in the great annals of comedy!? Where might the show fall amongst…

Indeed, sir. That's twice today for me, with the squealing that is… once for this, and once while listening to Patton Oswalt talk about playing his Chipmunks Christmas album slow enough to hear Satan… quite a day.

I have always said the fundamental reason my parents got divorced is that My dad's a Beatles man, my mom's a Rolling Stones gal.

Favorite sketches/moments/episodes…
Michael Palin's cat-down the trousers bit, Steve Martin "magically" mauling Bill Murray, and all the lounge singer sketches.

Man, my brother and I actually consumed about 6 boxes of this wonderful cereal before we went back to the similar but better Crispy Critters… until the bastards discontinued those too. Such a trauma-filled childhood I had.

If my comment-inexperienced-ass may interject…

Absolutely the funniest show.

Oh man…
Looking forward to the sweet, syrupy goodness of Canadian Comedy Month… nice choice, sir!

Nothin' better than a Mr. Show / Star Trek-ish reference in the mornin'!

Here's my question…
Did many Americans know who Michael Palin was when this show aired? I mean, PBS (in Dallas, anyway) had been broadcasting the Flying Circus for like 4 years, and Holy Grail had been in theaters a few years before, but did Joe Blow American really know who he was? (This question would obviously also…

Squeak!
Murray turning into a steaming kettle of anger in the second to last episode of season one makes me cry with laughter. "Oh let's do a jest! -A great big lark in the courtyard of the king and see how he takes it!"

Season changing lounge singing
You can't underestimate the importance of the mid-western country club/supper club/ski resort/fishing lodge setting for all of the lounge singer sketches. Apart from the obvious comedic set up, the accuracy is chilling.