Geegland drifted out of Comedy Bang! Bang! and The Kroll Show and into appearances on late-night shows, and then leveling up, exposure wise, into a stunning Broadway show that also became a Netflix special, titled Oh, Hello on Broadway. Some of this can probably be blamed on the simple math of ubiquity, as Faizon and St. Nowadays, what once felt like a joke in a foreign language has grown into a gag that was tailored specifically for the back of my brain. In hindsight, I can’t remember when I crossed over to the other side. It was funny for whatever broad jokes there were, but they were ultimately driven by characters that were made for someone else. When I first saw them in a series of Kroll Show sketches several years ago, the act felt like an inside joke several layers too deep. Geegland - the co-dependent geriatric testaments to failed creative ambition played by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, respectively - initially struck me as having too much of a high barrier to entry, speaking as a person who isn’t super familiar with Upper West Side types. Gil Faizon (charmed, he’s sure) and George St. I’ll admit, it took me a while to warm up to the Oh, Hello act. John Mulaney and Nick Kroll as George St.
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