“They’re sort of like those professors you looked up to for a semester,” says Mulaney, a former Saturday Night Live writer with a pair of stand-up specials on Netflix. We’re more comfortable as Gil and George than we are as ourselves.” “These guys are obviously very funny to us, but we also have a genuine love and affection for them,” says Kroll of the Upper East Side eccentrics. The same cranky characters later became fan favorites on Kroll’s sketch series, Kroll Show, which ran for three seasons on Comedy Central. Kroll and Mulaney were inspired to create their elderly alter egos more than a decade ago at Manhattan’s venerable Strand Bookstore, where they spotted a couple of crotchety old men buying separate copies of Alan Alda’s memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed. The longtime friends and collaborators soon began playing Gil and George to host a popular live stand-up comedy showcase in the East Village. The two-man comedy opens October 10 for a limited engagement at the Lyceum Theatre. Geegland, respectively, in Oh, Hello on Broadway. Making their Broadway debuts, 30-something actor-comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney star as fictional 70-something fusspots Gil Faizon and George St. Thanks to two goofballs in gray wigs, everything old is new again on the Great White Way.

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