Comedy and the theatre go hand-in-hand, but Oh, Hello’s brand of humor diverges from what Broadway typically offers.

Geegland (John Mulaney) and Gil Faizon (Kroll)-Upper West Side roommates for 40 years and failed creatives-seemed most naturally poised to tread the boards, even if their arrival took some time.įor Kroll and Mulaney, who took their sketch characters and launched an off-Broadway run at Cherry Lane Theatre in late 2015 before embarking on a national tour, ending up with a limited engagement at the Lyceum Theatre has been nothing short of a surprise. Of all the characters Nick Kroll and his comedian friends developed during the show’s three seasons, the cantankerous George St. But with “Oh, Hello” from the sketch series Kroll Show that all changed. Broadway may have borrowed from novels, from movies, from all manner of forms to feed new plays and musicals, but content originating on Comedy Central seemed somehow the least likely to ever make it to theatre’s most illustrious doorstep.

Before Oh, Hello rang the doorbell on the Great White Way, Comedy Central’s pipeline to Broadway was non-existent.

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