The surprise guest this evening was newscaster, Willie Geist, whom Gil and George treat to the diner's special tuna sandwich and gray coffee. There is a tuna sandwich puppet in Basil Twist's nightmare dance sequence and tuna again appears as part of the nightly 'special cameo' segment. Tuna fish takes on various forms as Gil and George reminisce about their neighborhood and themselves. Gil and George, roommates for over 40 years, bat complaints and maladroit observations back and forth on topics that range from their idol, Alan Alda, Steely Dan at the Beacon Theater, and the over-stuffed tuna salad sandwiches at the diner. While their apartment has five bedrooms and a working fireplace, this inequity makes Gil complain, 'We have a God-given right to pay the same rent every year regardless of inflation or property value!” The two need to make enough money to pay the monthly fee on their rent-controlled apartment, which has increased from $75 to $2500.

Since George fashions himself a playwright, he has written a play for himself and floundering actor Gil. The ill-matched and sloppy fitting corduroys and shirts designed by Emily Rebholz are perfect for the two. Describing themselves, widower George (whose three deceased wives all died mysteriously the same way on the same staircase), admits, 'I’m the type of guy you would catch at a party going through the coats.' About himself, Gil puts it bluntly, 'You know when you get to the bottom of a tub of hummus and you’ve gotta use your fingies to scoop it? That’s us.'Īs unappetizing as these two diner aficionados are, and as wacky as Oh, Hello is, the laughs are generous, albeit with a squirmy quality with barely a hint of a theme.

Geegland (John Mulaney), two messy golden-agers from New York's Upper West Side, could be today's Felix and Oscar, more crotchety and disheveled than golden, appearing as stars in Oh, Hello, a disorganized, screwy Broadway production. Nick Kroll (Gil Faizon) and John Mulaney (George St.

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