The Oh, Hello Show
The Oh, Hello Show is a comedy act created by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney that was popularized on Comedy Central's Kroll Show.[1][2][3] The show centers on Gil Faizon (Kroll) and George St. Geegland (Mulaney), two middle aged men from the Upper West Side of New York who are known for their turtlenecks, misinformed beliefs, and tendency to say "Oh, hello" in unison.[4][5]
Origins
Kroll and Mulaney developed Faizon and Geegland after watching two men wearing turtlenecks and blazers at The Strand bookstore purchase separate copies of an Alan Alda book.[6][7] They followed the men into a coffee shop and soon decided to host a comedy show as those characters.
In the early-2000s, Faizon and Geegland hosted a weekly show at Rififi, a New York comedy club that closed down in 2008. It was during this time that Kroll and Mulaney were able to hone their characters.[8][9]
Gil Faizon
Gil's birth name is Gil Cosby, but he took his wife's last name of Faizon.[clarification needed][10] Faizon has an ex-wife, son (Adam Brody), and stepson (Joe Mande).[11][12] He is Jewish and suffers from bagel-induced cholesterol.[10][13] Faizon often introduces himself as “Charmed I’m sure, Gil Faizon."[5] He is also a stand-in model for mashed potatoes and other creamed foods.[14]
George St. Geegland
Geegland was born in Newark, NJ to verbally abusive parents sometime in the mid-1940s.[14] In college, he majored in penmanship.[14] Geegland, a former short story professor at the fictitious SUNY Yonkers, is the more aggressive of the two characters.[10][15] He often yells at others, makes racist comments, and may have raped a student.[3][15] Geegland's unwritten novel, Rifkin's Dilemma, is about the boyhood of a guy with a fondness for masturbation.[15] His first wife's name is Inertia Bernstein.[14] He was divorced at the age of 46.[16] Spalding Gray personally dislikes him, and he has chapped hands.[14]
George and Gil met in Toronto while dodging the Vietnam War.[14]
Too Much Tuna
Faizon and Geegland regularly appeared in Kroll Show sketches as hosts of a public access prank show in which unsuspecting contestants are given sandwiches with too much tuna. They usually ruined the prank by telling the contestant that a tuna fish sandwich was coming before the plate of food arrived.[2][3][5][17][18]
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