Both are performing in a play written by St. They've been performing the characters ever since - appearing regularly on the popular Comedy Bang Bang! podcast and in three seasons worth of segments on Kroll's 2013 Comedy Central series, 'Kroll Show.'Īnd now, they're on Broadway at the 'deeply haunted' Lyceum Theatre - where discarded set pieces from 2003's 'I Am My Own Wife,' 2005's 'Steel Magnolias' revival and some unnamed August Wilson play have been cobbled together as the setting for the 95-minute laugh-fest.

Geeland to the stage in a weekly show at the now-closed Rififi comedy club.Īlex Brightman Reveals “Jurassic Park” Audition Story After eavesdropping on their conversation, Kroll and Mulaney brought Faizon and St. The comedians followed the two down the block and across the street to a coffee shop, where each read their copies of the book separately. Both men piqued Kroll and Mulaney's curiosity when they purchased separate copies of Alan Alda's autobiography 'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned.' Kroll and Mulaney first spotted the two real-life inspirations for the fictional characters in 2008 while shopping at The Strand bookstore. If the characters feel all too real, it's because they practically are. He describes himself as 'the type of guy you would catch at a party going through the coats.' Neither Jewish nor a woman, he says that 'like many old men over 70, I have reached the age where I am somehow both.'

Geeland (Mulaney, of NBC's 'Saturday Night Live'). The bottom of his flowered shirt sticking out of the zipped fly of his pleated corduroy pants, Faizon calls himself 'the kind of guy who brings beverages to the bathroom.'Īlso wearing pleated corduroy pants - though dressed up with a turtleneck, a cardigan and a blazer - is St. Or the duo sitting on the crosstown bus, lecturing a standing pregnant woman holding a bag of groceries about the joys of Ed Koch-era New York.įaizon (Kroll, of NBC's 'Parks and Recreation') is a 'Tony Award-viewing' actor who somehow has found his way onto your co-op board even though he probably doesn't live in your building.

They're the two guys squatting on the stationary bikes at the YMCA all afternoon, watching 'Judge Judy' and rarely pedaling. The late-in-life bachelors created by comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney and seen in Broadway's knee-slapping, hilarious new play 'Oh, Hello!' - which opened Sunday – are Upper West Side legends. Even if you've never met them before, you've seen Gil Faizon and George St.

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