“My roommate has a distinct laugh,” Marzban said. “When I would deliver a joke and the audience would laugh, I tried to see if I could hear his laugh, and I did once.”

Cast and crew members of “The Show” taped a 20th anniversary episode twice Saturday in front of about 100 people.

David Cooper, a telecommunication, information studies and media junior, is an executive producer for the MSU Telecasters and a director for “The Show,” which is one of three shows produced by members of the MSU Telecasters.

The sitcom follows the lives of six students living in Wilson Hall, Cooper said.

“I like to describe it as (the TV sitcom) “Friends,” but in a college dorm situation,” Cooper said.

“The Show” was created in 1988 by MSU alumnus Greg Harrison.

Although many TV sitcoms will stop filming if an actor misses a line, “The Show’s” cameras won’t, Cooper said.

“Most normal sitcoms usually just cut,” Cooper said. “We don’t like to because we think it’s more exciting to keep it live.”

Cooper said each episode is performed twice within the same day in case something goes wrong in the first performance.

“When I was a freshman, a poster just fell down and they kept going through it because we didn’t stop filming,” Cooper said. “There’s some crazy stuff that can happen when you’re working live.”

Emma Purola, who plays Erin Meyers on “The Show,” said it was exciting to be involved in the 20th anniversary episode.

“It’s really amazing to realize it’s all done by students,” Purola said.

“It doesn’t seem that hard when you show up once a week and practice lines, but when you realize all the work to produce an episode it’s an amazing feeling.”

Alex Cooper, David Cooper’s father, attended the Saturday taping and said this episode’s writing, directing and acting impressed him and his family.

“We’ve attended every taping of every episode in the last three years,” Alex Cooper said.

“This episode definitely kicked it up a couple of notches.”