Michael Showalter

Verity

Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh is on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime: she's been hired to complete the remaining books in a successful series that bestselling thriller author Verity Crawford is unable to finish after a mysterious accident. Upon arrival at the lavish Crawford estate, Ashleigh slowly learns that things are not exactly as they seem.

Release Date: 2026-05-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Oh. What. Fun.

Claire Clauster organizes a special Christmas outing when her family forgets her in the shuffle. By the time they realize their mistake, she’s gone missing. Their Christmas is in jeopardy, but Claire has other plans.

Release Date: 2025-12-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Long Live the State

In 2024, the eleven (!) members of the iconic mid-90’s cult comedy troupe The State reunited for a live tour. With their irreverent and absurdist live sketches as the backdrop, and framed with a greatest-hits playlist of classic material, the group’s unreasonably talented stars sit down to share the behind-the-scenes story of The State’s meteoric rise and lasting influence- in typically hilarious fashion.

Release Date: 2025-06-08

Character: Self

The Idea of You

40-year-old single mom Solène begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet. As they begin a whirlwind romance, it isn't long before Hayes' superstar status poses unavoidable challenges to their relationship, and Solène soon discovers that life in the glare of his spotlight might be more than she bargained for.

Release Date: 2024-05-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1704

Spoiler Alert

Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Release Date: 2022-12-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 149

Stomach People

When Julia returns home for her grandmother's funeral, she has a nervous breakdown and vomits up the imaginary friends that have been living inside her stomach since she was seven.

Release Date: 2022-11-28

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.

Release Date: 2021-09-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 624

The Lovebirds

A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme – and hilarious - circumstance to the next, they must figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.

Release Date: 2020-05-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 707

It Started As a Joke

This documentary chronicles the decade-long run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival – including a final farewell show. The film celebrates Eugene’s unique brand of humor and his role in the alternative comedy movement, offers a bittersweet goodbye to an era, and reminds us of the healing properties of comedy – even in the most challenging of life’s circumstances.

Release Date: 2019-03-10

Character: Self

Vote Count: 3

Ray Romano: Right Here, Around the Corner

Ray Romano first cut his stand-up teeth at the Comedy Cellar in New York. Now, in his first comedy special in 23 years, he returns to where it all began.

Release Date: 2019-02-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 45

The Big Sick

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.

Release Date: 2017-03-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2490

Giles Vanderhoot

No one is better at portraying rehabilitationamalist Giles Vanderhoot than Vanderhoot himself.

Release Date: 2016-04-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Giles Vanderhoot

The Second Sound Barrier

The tale of the three fastest drivers in the world and their quest to save Lady Billionaire. Struck with a mysterious illness, the only way to save her is to break the "second sound barrier"

Release Date: 2016-03-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Hello, My Name Is Doris

A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.

Release Date: 2015-11-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 491

Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot

Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage offers a glimpse into the comic minds behind a "Wet Hot" summer-camp cult hit featuring many future stars.

Release Date: 2015-07-31

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Self

Vote Count: 46

Misery Loves Comedy

Do you have to be miserable to be funny? More than sixty comedians—including stand-ups, writers, actors, and directors from the US, Canada, and abroad—take on this question, sharing anecdotes and insights with lively enthusiasm.

Release Date: 2015-01-23

Character: Self

Vote Count: 39

Two Night Stand

After an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice. They're now trapped together in a tiny apartment, forced to get to know each other way more than any one night stand should.

Release Date: 2014-09-26

Character: Rick Raines

Vote Count: 1863

They Came Together

A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.

Release Date: 2014-06-27

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 421

Wanderlust

Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options, ultimately deciding to experiment with living on a rural commune where free love rules.

Release Date: 2012-02-23

Character: Himself

Vote Count: 1266

Stella: Live in Boston

The comedy trio performs live in Boston.

Release Date: 2009-08-13

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Michael

Vote Count: 4

Birthday

"Birthday" is a new short film from the unique three-man comedy group STELLA:

Release Date: 2008-12-15

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Michael

The Ten

Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

Release Date: 2007-08-03

Character: Police Lt. Flarn Bleern

Vote Count: 197

Reno 911!: Miami

A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break. Based on the Comedy Central series.

Release Date: 2007-02-23

Character: Paul

Vote Count: 251

Griffin & Phoenix

A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.

Release Date: 2006-09-12

Character: Terry's Fiancé

Vote Count: 171

The Baxter

A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves." Loved by bosses and parents, Elliot is a perfectly nice guy. And that's his problem.

Release Date: 2005-08-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Elliot Sherman

Vote Count: 47

Hair High

Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to their prom to get revenge.

Release Date: 2004-04-17

Character: Wally (voice)

Vote Count: 33

The Wrong Coast

The Wrong Coast is a Canadian stop-motion animated television show. The show emulates a Hollywood gossip show with fake news and features, and includes many parodies on Hollywood movies, often utilizing the voices of real stars. The theme song is performed by They Might Be Giants. The Wrong Coast was produced by Blueprint Entertainment, Cuppa Coffee Studios and Curious Pictures with stop-motion animation provided by Cuppa Coffee Studios. The series initially was to air for American audiences on AMC in December 2003 but never did, then in Canada on The Movie Network in April 2004. Teletoon has rebroadcast the original season in Canada since 19 August 2005. A French-dubbed version of the series, titled La Côte Ouest, aired in Canada on Télétoon. With no further episodes produced or announced, the show was apparently canceled after its only season.

Release Date: 2003-12-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Signs

A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

Release Date: 2002-08-02

Character: Lionel Prichard

Vote Count: 5811

Operation Midnight Climax

Will Nitch is on a mission to achieve a transendental tantric sexual experience: a sustained orgasm. He begins to assemble a Secret Society of Women: women are, afterall, pivotal to helping a man to reach the cosmic blue lights. Will wants all the women for himself, and with the help of all the women in his life and his friend Chip, he plans a midnight tantric sex party; during which he hopes to climax to the point of reaching the mythical blue lights.

Release Date: 2002-04-29

Character: Chip

Vote Count: 2

Kissing Jessica Stein

Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen Cooper, a thirtysomething art gallerist.

Release Date: 2002-03-13

Character: Stephen

Vote Count: 229

Wet Hot American Summer

The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.

Release Date: 2001-07-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Character: Coop / Alan Shemper

Vote Count: 825

The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special

Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.

Release Date: 1995-10-27

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Various

Vote Count: 2

Untitled Holiday Comedy Project

The film follows two women fighting the elements to make it home for Christmas

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

The story will follow a real-life '90s Texas bank robber named Peggy Jo Tallas, who got away with her heists by dressing up as a man, aka “Cowboy Bob.” Her disguises were carefully crafted, with the help of a towel stuffed under her shirt, a leather jacket and a fake beard. The lead actress has not yet been cast, but it will be a strong and showy part.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Stella Shorts 1998-2002

STELLA is a three-man comedy troupe from New York City, comprised of well-known comedians/actors Michael Showalter, David Wain, and Michael Ian Black. Though the three have made a living performing at comedy clubs, they are perhaps best known for their home-made short films. The STELLA SHORTS have garnered cult success because of their nonsensical plotlines, absurd dialogue, graphic sexual humor, sporatic violence, and sheer hilarity. This DVD showcases the trio's first twenty-three adventures, each one more bizarre and hysterical than the last. Highlights include: a game of whiffleball that goes terribly awry, an expedition to the South Pole (?) to meet Santa Claus, an edge-of-your-seat moustache-growing contest, a twisted "whodunit"-style murder mystery, and much, much more.

Release Date: 2002-12-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Michael

Vote Count: 3

Chocolate For Breakfast

Four very different female roommates try to stick together while dealing with hectic daily schedules that living in New York City often conditions.

Release Date: 1998-10-01

Safe Men

Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.

Release Date: 1998-08-07

Character: Larry

Vote Count: 53

Tick

A brisk look into the lives of two bomb diffusers. John Hamburg's student film.

Release Date: 1996-01-15

Character: Clifford

Vote Count: 2

MTV: The State, Skits and Stickers

VHS only release featuring skits from MTV's The State.

Happy Face

The story of Melissa Reed, daughter of Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. After decades of no contact, Keith forces his way back into his daughter’s life, and Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed. In the process, she must face a reckoning of her own identity.

Release Date: 2025-03-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 36

The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh

The Pradeeps attempt to prove their innocence to a pair of investigating government agents by recounting their initial life in America after moving from India. Though each family member has a different perspective on the events, they weave together a story of humor, heartbreak, and the often-complicated pursuit of their respective American Dreams.

Release Date: 2024-10-17

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 10

I Love That for You

A woman overcomes childhood leukemia to achieve her dream of becoming an on-air host at a home shopping network.

Release Date: 2022-05-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 17

The Dropout

The story of Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos. Lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation and once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people's health in grave danger.

Release Date: 2022-03-03

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 280

The Shrink Next Door

Inspired by the true story of Marty and the therapist who turned his life around...then took it over. When he first meets Dr. Ike, Marty just wants to get better at boundaries. Over 30 years, he'll learn all about them—and what happens when they get crossed.

Release Date: 2021-11-11

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 125

In the Dark

Murphy is a flawed and irreverent woman who just happens to be blind and is the only “witness” to the murder of her drug-dealing friend, Tyson. When the police dismiss her story, she sets out with her dog, Pretzel, to find the killer while also managing her colorful dating life and the job she hates at Guiding Hope, the guide-dog school owned by her overprotective parents.

Release Date: 2019-04-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 199

Sugar Rush

A relentlessly fast-paced baking competition that challenges brilliant bakers to create sweet treats that look and taste amazing – all against the clock. Who will race to the finish and win $10,000?

Release Date: 2018-07-13

Character: Self - Judge

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 75

9JKL

A time in Mark Feuerstein's adult life when he lived in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, sandwiched between his parents' apartment, 9J; and his brother, sister-in-law and their baby's apartment, 9L and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well-meaning family.

Release Date: 2017-10-02

Character: Walter Michaelson

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 21

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

A decade after their wild summer as junior counselors, the gang reunites for a weekend of bonding, hanky-panky and hair-raising adventures.

Release Date: 2017-08-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Coop / Ronald Reagan

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 116

Search Party

A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.

Release Date: 2016-11-21

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Max

Episode Count: 50

Vote Count: 124

Love

Rebellious Mickey and good-natured Gus navigate the thrills and agonies of modern relationships.

Release Date: 2016-02-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 299

The Grinder

Television lawyer Dean Sanderson moves back to his small home town after his hit series, "The Grinder," is canceled thinking his time on TV qualifies him to run his family's law firm.

Release Date: 2015-09-29

Character: Sandy Malmuth

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 83

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

It's the first day of camp in this outrageous prequel to the hilarious 2001 cult classic movie. And at Camp Firewood, anything can happen.

Release Date: 2015-07-31

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Coop

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 207

Grace and Frankie

Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21st century world.

Release Date: 2015-05-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 335

American Viral

Three years after a YouTube video of their son getting hit in the balls went viral, a dysfunctional family desperately tries to recapture their waning internet fame.

Release Date: 2014-06-26

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 5

@midnight with Chris Hardwick

Chris Hardwick will lead three celebrity contestants down the ultimate internet wormhole. Culling from the darkest recesses of social media, they will compete to determine who has the funniest take on the day's pop culture.

Release Date: 2013-10-21

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 19

Super Fun Night

Junior attorney Kimmie Boubier and her two best friends, Helen-Alice and Marika, have had a standing date every Friday night for the last 13 years. They even have a motto for what they call "Friday Night Fun Night": "Always together! Always Inside!" However Kimmie's recent promotion throws a monkey wrench into the tradition. Not only is she now working with her idol, "Lady Lawyer of the Year" Felicity Vanderstone, but she meets a dashingly handsome British attorney, Richard Lovell, who invites her to his party at a trendy club. Determined to spend time with Richard and heed Felicity's advice to network, Kimmie sets out to convince her friends to take Super Fun Night on the road.

Release Date: 2013-10-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 26

Newsreaders

Newsreaders is a quarter-hour format American television comedy that lampoons the news magazine genre. The series is a spinoff of the Adult Swim show Childrens Hospital and stars Mather Zickel as Louis LaFonda, the host of the fictional news magazine Newsreaders. The series premiered January 17, 2013. It has been renewed for a second season.

Release Date: 2013-01-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 17

You're Whole

Michael Ian Black stars as Randall Tyree Mandersohn, a volleyball-obsessed self-help guru selling his 27-DVD program, which aims to help people improve their lives. You're Whole is presented as a parody of self-help infomercials. Each episode is advertised as part of the larger DVD set.

Release Date: 2012-11-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 3

Bob's Burgers

Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success.

Release Date: 2011-01-09

Character: Ethan (voice)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 987

The Slope

The Slope is a comedy that follows the lives of a lesbian couple navigating their way through modern-day Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Release Date: 2010-08-06

Character: Ben

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Michael Showalter's the Making of...

Release Date: 2010-07-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.

Release Date: 2009-07-16

Character: Self - Guest

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 73

Michael & Michael Have Issues

Longtime collaborators Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter (co-founders of The State comedy troupe, which spawned the same-named MTV show) join forces once again for this twist on narrative and sketch comedies that features the duo as hosts of their own fictitious sketch show. Behind the scenes, viewers see the two Michaels wrestling with how best to run the show, while they simultaneously confront their own issues of insecurity and jealousy as they try to undermine each other.

Release Date: 2009-07-15

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: Self

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 4

Childrens Hospital

A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.

Release Date: 2008-12-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Nils Vildervaan

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 80

The Michael Showalter Showalter

The Michael Showalter Showalter was an internet video series starring by Michael Showalter that was hosted on the website, CollegeHumor. The show lasted for one season of ten episodes that all aired from 2007 to 2008. The series was a chat show hosted by Showalter. Each episode features a guest, usually a comedian or an actor. Showalter typically gives intentionally awkward and humorous interviews, in which he is occasionally seen asking to borrow money from his interviewee.

Release Date: 2008-01-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 10

Stella

Stella was a short-lived television series that originally ran from June 28, 2005 to August 30, 2005 on the American television channel Comedy Central, created by and starring Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain, the three members of the sketch comedy troupe of the same name and former cast members of MTV's The State. Stella, as a comedy troupe, has existed since 1997. It has a cult following and plays to sold out shows across the USA. The show aired on Tuesdays at 10:30 PM, EST. In September, after 10 episodes, Stella's timeslot was filled by Mind of Mencia. On March 8, 2006, the following message was posted on Stella's official website: "The STELLA series was on Comedy Central last summer. The network has officially decided not to renew it for a second season," thus effectively cancelling the series. The first season DVD was released on September 12, 2006. Episodes have also been available on iTunes and Hulu and some episodes on Joost. Stella premiered in Australia on The Comedy Channel on May 3, 2007.

Release Date: 2005-06-29

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: 

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 19

American Dad!

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."

Release Date: 2005-02-06

Character: Mark (voice)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2204

Cheap Seats

Cheap Seats without Ron Parker, commonly shortened to Cheap Seats, is a television program broadcast on ESPN Classic hosted by brothers Randy and Jason Sklar. The brothers appear as fictional ESPN tape librarians who amuse themselves by watching old, campy sports broadcasts and wisecracking about them. Cheap Seats debuted on February 4, 2004, with an episode that showed ESPN sportscaster "Ron Parker" getting buried under a shelf full of tapes, forcing the Sklars to fill in, as they were behind Parker on the "hosting depth chart". The founding production team behind "Cheap Seats" included Mark Shapiro, Showrunner, Todd Pellegrino, James Cohen and Joseph Maar. Cheap Seats was originally an hour-long program. There were about 10 one hour-long episodes in the first season, all of which were subsequently cut down to fit a 30 minute time slot.

Release Date: 2004-02-04

Episode Count: 79

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.

Release Date: 2003-01-26

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 171

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is an American animated science fiction/adventure/comedy series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series originally aired on UPN and ABC from October 2000 to January 2001 as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning programming block. It follows the adventures of space ranger Buzz Lightyear, who first appeared in the film Toy Story as an action figure and one of the film's protagonists.

Release Date: 2000-10-02

Character: Plasma Boy (voice)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 66

Random Play

Release Date: 1999-07-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: 

Episode Count: 2

Comedy Central Presents

These half-hour specials showcased some of the best up-and-coming comedians of the moment. The show was a pivotal stepping stone for many of today's stand-up stars.

Release Date: 1998-12-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 30

Sex and the City

Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. 

Release Date: 1998-06-06

Character: Billy

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2057

The Daily Show

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

Release Date: 1996-07-22

Character: Self - Correspondent

Episode Count: 2558

Vote Count: 573

The State

The State is a sketch-comedy television show combing bizarre characters and scenarios to present sketches that won the hearts of its target teenaged audience.

Release Date: 1994-01-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Various Characters

Episode Count: 24

Vote Count: 17

You Wrote It, You Watch It

You Wrote It, You Watch It is a short-lived MTV sketch comedy series starring members of The State comedy troupe before they were given their own show by the network. It was hosted by Jon Stewart, future host of The Daily Show. The comedians performed humorous sketch recreations of letters sent to the MTV offices by viewers, depicting outrageous stories and events from their daily lives, with introductions by Stewart. An early example of crowdsourcing, the show only lasted one season, premiering in 1992 and being canceled in 1993. Jon Stewart would later quip, "You wrote it, you just didn't watch it!"

Release Date: 1992-10-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Law & Order

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Release Date: 1990-09-13

Character: Artie Kramer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 618

Friday Night Videos

Friday Night Videos is an American music video show broadcast on the NBC television network from July 29, 1983 to May 24, 2002, and was the network's attempt to capitalize on the emerging popularity of music videos as seen on MTV. Belinda Carlisle was the guest host for the first episode.

Release Date: 1983-07-29

Episode Count: 44

Vote Count: 3