On July 5th, Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant will join the few State cast members who are also published authors (Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter have previously been published). The duo of established screenwriters responsible for the Night At the Museum series and ummm… Balls of Fury, Herbie: Fully Loaded and The Pacifier, will be passing on their knowledge of the craft of screenwriting to let you know how to “turn your words into $tack$ of money”. Based on their resumes, they seem adequately qualified.

UPDATE: Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant have added a NYC appearance at the Paley Center to support the book, more details here.

The book titled, Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too! is available for pre-order.

Apparently, The State recorded an album Comedy For Gracious Living that was never released. The album features 25 skits and you can pre-order and check out clips here(though the clips kept crashing my browser). While I am a huge fan of the show, I am a bit weary of skit albums as they are a thing of the past for a reason. The last skit based album I can remember coming out was Norm MacDonald’s Ridiculous, which was terrible. I definitely look forward to giving it a spin though as they will likely have some gems on there.