A recording of a hit Broadway show with Upper West Side roots is coming to Netflix this month.
“Oh, Hello,” a show about two seventy-something Upper West Siders, will be available on the online streaming service as of June 13.
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney invented characters named Gil Faizon (Kroll) and George St. Geegland (Mulaney) who muse on life in New York and force celebrities to eat too much tuna.
The Times’ Ben Brantley liked it:
We develop a sense of how two friends, sharing a rent-stabilized apartment ($75 a month!), grew and flourished like mildew in a city they cherished for its dirt and dereliction. They summon their urban life with a novelist’s ear for the telling grotesque detail — in accounts of apartment building lobbies where everything looks and smells like soup, or diners where the coffee is always gray.
See some of their material below:
Looks painfully unfunny, but I’ll give it a try. Ali Wong : Baby Cobra is the best standup I’ve seen on Netflix. Completely original.
I’ve never found kvetching to be a form of entertainment.
Re: “I’ve never found kvetching to be a form of entertainment.”
Oh, look! A Kvetch about Kvetching !!
No offense, Scooter but you should leave the comedy to the professionals. Without a laugh track it just doesn’t work.:)
I doubt a laugh track would help.
This was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen on Broadway. The guys are genius. I’ll be curious to see the filmed stage version, but doubt it can compare to being there in the moment (which is true of most filmed stage productions, yes?)
The costumes are spot on. Those are heavy gauge Ralph Lauren cords.