The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nick Kroll got some other comedians into the act when he guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live at the end of last week, including Joe Mande as a “writer” and actual JKL writer Jesse Joyce as a camera guy. While Kimmel remains on vacation, some of his other subs this week have …
After performing a half-hour stand-up special on Comedy Central and writing a book on depression (How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows), what came next for comedian Jacqueline Novak would bring her to her knees. So to speak. The actress Natasha Lyonne has presented …
The difference between independent and mainstream can sometimes be easy to see, as this weekend proved once again, with Saturday afternoon’s Independent Spirit Awards on IFC followed by Sunday evening’s Academy Awards on ABC. At the indie awards, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney returned to host for a second consecutive …
John Mulaney and Nick Kroll’s run of Oh Hello, On Broadway, now filmed for Netflix, was a triumphant two-man tour-de-farce. Not only was their Broadway production packed with jokes, but in the middle of their massive joke sandwich, the characters of Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland inserted about 10 …
Oh, Hello! John Mulaney and Nick Kroll have such great comedy chemistry and timing, built up over the years and refined to a peak with their Broadway run of Oh, Hello!, that having them deliver the opening monologue together at Saturday night’s Film Independent Spirit Awards shows why two hosts …
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney will bid a fond farewell to their Broadway run this weekend of their elder alter-egos, Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, when Oh, Hello puts on its final performance Sunday. But for any of you who missed their hilarious two-man tour de farce, there’s hope, …
Everybody loves a comedy festival. And in this year of 2016, it doesn’t just feel as though every city has its own comedy festival, because not only do they, but oftentimes, several cities have recruited all-star comedy lineups to their region on the same weekend. And New York City can …
Whatever you think it’s going to be, Oh, Hello on Broadway is even better than that. What began perhaps as a goof a decade ago between two young friends in comedy has, all these years later, majestically hit the Broadway stage this fall as a fully thought-out legit stage production, …
George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon finally open their Broadway run of “Oh, Hello” with previews tonight. Celebrate with highlights from their New York City press conference earlier this month, thanks to Funny or Die. Roll the clip! And if you want to hear the whole thing, you may have …
A decade before Oh, Hello became a Broadway show that could fill a rehearsal space with TV crews awaiting their press conference in character as Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney were just two young Georgetown grads fooling around as Gil and George in the …
