At New York University in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Michael Ian Black was on an 11-member campus comedy group that, he says, scheduled rehearsals for every single day, always for at least a few hours.
More than 30 years and many career advancements later, that yearning for togetherness remains. The group, now called The State and largely still intact, did a show in New York last month, opting to squeeze its eight touring members into one tiny dressing room rather than divvy them up between multiple, larger rooms.
