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Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter will both be doing a "pre-Tweet Town Hall" at 9:30 PM ET, and then continuing through the show, which airs at 10:30 PM ET, looking for questions from the audience and commentary on the show.

Kevin Allison, the lone gay of the '90s sketch group The State , dishes on the group's formation, their fallout with Les Moonves, and bouncing back after hitting bottom.

We have been waiting seemingly forever for this day: The State , MTV's beloved early-90s sketch comedy show, is finally out on DVD today, in case you hadn't checked a social networking site lately.

Michael Ian Black's cynical, self-effacing performances generated a cult following in his sketch-comedy show, The State and the subsequent college dormitory hit, Wet Hot American Summer .

In Comedy Central's Michael and Michael Have Issues , we have another show-within-a-show, a la 30 Rock .

The tweets came fast and furious after this yeara s Fourth of July with reports that comedian Michael Ian Black had been sighted at the Jonathan festivities.

Collectively, comedians Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter have written for and starred in enough canceled sketch shows for Comedy Central and sibling MTV to know what keeps a show on the air these days.

Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter are the Michaels of "Michael & Michael Have Issues" a new situation-sketch-metacomedy that premieres tonight on Comedy Central.

Competitive one-upmanship. Impromptu fisticuffs. Name-calling. Like so many comedy duos, Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black openly despise each other.

Fans of Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter would not be surprised if Michael & Michael Have Issues was cancelled quickly.

PICK OF THE WEEK "The State" Complete Series : Rejoice, o lovers of vintage MTV programming! For the first time, American consumers can buy a legit package documenting the run of this early-'90s sketch comedy show, a quirkfest that helped launch the careers of folks like David Wain, Michael Ian Black, and Michael Showalter.

Back in May, when the FSView talked to Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter, the creators and stars of Michael and Michael Have Issues , Comedy Central's new show which premieres Wednesday, July 15 at 10:30 p.m., they described the show as their "favorite that anyone has ever done.

A founding member of The State, whose comedy show aired on MTV from 1993 to 1995, Wain is also a member of the comedy troupe Stella and the director of the cult classic Wet Hot American Summer.

David Wain Talks 'The State' and His Fut... A founding member of The State , whose comedy show aired on MTV from 1993 to 1995, Wain is also a member of the comedy troupe Stella and the director of the cult classic Wet Hot American Summer .

Posted 1 hour, 54 minutes ago by Jared Thomas . MTV's short-lived, long-remembered sketch comedy series The State is finally being brought in full to DVD July 14, 2009.

On July 15, Gowanus will be Brooklyn's comedy central. That's the night when sketch comedy legends Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black will perform at the Bell House leading up to the debut of their Comedy Central show "Michael and Michael Have Issues." Showalter, a Brooklyn resident and regular at Union Hall's weekly comedy nights, and Black, ...