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Comedians and costars Nick Kroll and John MULANEY sat down with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric to discuss their new Broadway play OH HELLO and their longstanding friendship since college.
The pair also discussed how they got into comedy, the origins of 'Oh, Hello,' and some of the famous faces who have stopped by the show and have been picked out of the audience - including Lena Dunham, Jimmy Kimmel, Aziz Ansari, Ira Glass, Will Forte, Fred Savage, and even Couric herself. Watch the interview below!
Mulaney commented on getting to Broadway, "I remember someone saying in the very Early Stages, 'Guys, please understand "Oh, Hello" on Broadway would be a disaster. So then we did off Broadway. We were very lucky. We sold out our entire run in about 8 hours. These are all weird people but we sold out in 8 hours...There was something in the air....I remember we had a meeting, we were touring in Boston and we came to New York and we met with our producers and they were explaining how it would work to go to Broadway and....I was like 'Oh man, this joke is about to become real.'"
Performances for Oh, Hello on Broadway began on Friday, September 23 at The Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street), where it will run through January 8, 2017. Alex Timbers directs.
Respectively, the duo star as Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland - outrageously opinionated, 70-something, native New Yorkers that Kroll and MULANEY first began performing on the alternative comedy stages in NYC. Honed for over a decade, the fictional duo garnered a cult following and found their way onto a Comedy Central special, viral videos and late night couches everywhere. Oh, Hello on Broadway is Gil and George's "memoir for the stage" - a laugh-a-minute two-man tour-de-force that's part scripted, part spontaneous comedy, and totally unprecedented.
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