Minus the gray guise, these turn out to be shockingly youthful-looking guys.
They’ve been them ever since-on television, Off-Broadway, on tour and now, remarkably, on Broadway.Īfter their double Broadway debuts, Kroll and Mulaney hopped a time machine and shed a good 40 years getting to the after-party at Brasserie 8½ on West 57th Street. The kibitzing-and-kvetching interplay so amused the comedy writers that they trailed their subjects to a nearby diner, studied them and decided to slip into these personas for a comedy act. Geegland were born a little more than a decade ago in the Strand Bookstore when Kroll and Mulaney observed two crabby geezers in blazers and turtlenecks purchasing separate copies of Alan Alda’s book, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed.
Geegland are a pair of 70-something Upper West Siders-as well as the alta-kocher alter egos of Nick Kroll, 38, and John Mulaney, 34, respectively fugitive wits and writers from Comedy Central and Saturday Night Live.ĭespite their Social Security status, Faizon and St. 10 at the Lyceum Theatre, might rightly be called A Coupla Old Coots Standing Around Talking.
By any other name, Oh, Hello on Broadway, which opened Oct.