[EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW] Comedian Kevin Allison’s Last Laugh: The State, RISK! And Advice From Michael Ian Black

By Kyle Dowling (k.dowling@musictimes.com) | Aug 25, 2014 04:20 PM EDT

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In Last Laugh, MStarsNews talks to our favorite comedians or funny people about some of the last experiences they've had over the years. For this installment, we welcome in comedian Kevin Allison.

As one of the founding members of comedic group The State, Allison rose to fame during MTV's televised program of the same name. Alongside fellow members Michael Ian Black, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Thomas Lennon, Joe Lo Truglio, Ken Marino, Michael Showalter, David Wain, Ben Garant, Todd Holoubek and Michael Patrick Jann, The State's television show became one of the network's hits during the 90s.

More recently, the comedian has created RISK!, a live show and podcast where "people tell true stories they'd dare to share in public." Now, Kevin Allison chats with MStarsNews for Last Laugh.

So, Kevin Allison, who/what/where/when was the ...

MStarsNews: Last time you wore something you hated?
Kevin Allison: Every day. I'm not a clothes person so I always feel like I look like a schlub. I'm very much like a straight guy that way.

MS: Last person to see you naked?
KA: I flashed my producer on a Skype video call during a work session. She liked it.

MS: Last day job you had?
KA: I was the Artistic Director of the People's Improv Theater a few years back.

MS: Last place you traveled to outside of the US?
KA: I went to London over July 4th for the first international RISK! show.

MS: Last guilty pleasure you discovered?
KA: The Facebook group Gaysians and Bears.

MS: Last piece of advice another comedian gave you?
KA: I can't remember the last one, but the best one was when Michael Ian Black advised me to drop the act and start telling my own true stories. That's how RISK! was born.

MS: Last thing you regretted?
KA: Allowing two more cats into my house.

MS: Last time you bombed onstage?
KA: I told a story about the origin of my sketch comedy group The State, which had a hit show on MTV in the nineties, and most of the audience seemed to be too young to know who I was talking about.

MS: Last time you lost your cool?
KA: Pretty much any time I see an attractive Asian man on the street, I lose my cool.

MS: Last piece of advice YOU gave someone?
KA: Forceful wealth redistribution is the only thing that can save our great nation.

MS: Last time you were the butt of the joke?
KA: Elna Baker hosted RISK! while I was away recently, and she told the audience I was missing because I had crabs.

MS: Last time you got into a fight?
KA: Someone on Twitter recently called me a "c*cksucking fa**ot" because of some tweets of mine about world events, but then I convinced him to listen to RISK! and now I think everything's fine.

MS: Last time you wished you were someone else?
KA: 1970-2014.

MS: Last thing you and to apologize for?
KA: My tweets about international conflicts.

MS: Last time you laughed really hard?
KA: When my producer and I discussed possible answers for this questionnaire.

MS: Last time you felt uncomfortable?
KA: Whenever I have to wear clothes.

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