9/2/2023 0 Comments Oh hello broadway guests![]() ![]() ![]() At one point in the show, the two men describe walking into the lobby of their apartment building, which, they reveal, “smells like very good soup.” Kroll has that smell. The 38-year-old Kroll, on the other hand, totally convinces as one of those guys who looked 70 the day he flunked out of Columbia and never changed until he actually was 70. Even the 34-year-old actor’s powdered hair and beard look fake. Geegland never begins to approach the raw veracity of Kroll’s failed actor Gil Faizon. ![]() He’s neither the classic straight man who sets up the zany alpha male (Kroll) nor is he an even mildly amusing caricature in his own right. Did “Saturday Night Live” somehow end that streak? Did comics suddenly not want to share the spotlight?Ĭomedy Central’s Nick Kroll and John Mulaney had the promise to revive the male comedy team with their oft-performed skit “Oh, Hello,” about two nerdy old men from Manhattan’s Upper West Side who host a public-access show called “Too Much Tuna.” The big problem with “Oh, Hello on Broadway,” which opened Monday at the Lyceum Theatre in New York, is that Mulaney doesn’t deliver. Whatever happened to the great comic duos? Movies and TV used to give us at least one a generation: Laurel and Hardy, Hope and Crosby, Lewis and Martin, Rowan and Martin. ![]()
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