Suddenly, they receive a letter from the management informing them that their apartment is no longer rent-controlled: Instead of paying $75-a-month for three bedrooms, they must now pay $4,000 (a bargain for us market renters).
Pacino-like, George stares into the darkness, looking for some unseen teleprompter. That play-within-the-play begins with George reading Tennessee Williams-esque stage directions describing their home on 73rd and Columbus ("Next to the door there's a mezuzah under the painted-over holes of a previous mezuzah"). They familiarize us with some of the tropes of the stage (the slow fade on the last line, the one-sided phone call) before launching into a performance of their new play, We're Us, You're You, Let's Talk. George is a (forcibly) retired creative-writing professor best known for his 1971 novel Rifkin's Dilemma, a universally ignored Philip Roth knockoff. Gil is an actor who has appeared as an extra on several television shows. Geegland are septuagenarian roommates living on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Oh, Hello is about two people you might run into at the theater: Gil Faizon and George St. Kroll and Mulaney join the fray in this laugh-out-loud sendup of the stage: its conventions, customs, and inhabitants. And really, could this live version of the popular segment from Comedy Central's Kroll Show start any other way? Recently home to successful stand-up shows by Colin Quinn and Hasan Minhaj (both of which are playing return engagements this winter), the Cherry Lane has quickly become the theater for the Comedy Central set.
Geegland (John Mulaney) at the very beginning of their new show at the Cherry Lane Theatre. "Ooooooooooh, helloooo," incant Gil Faizon (Nick Kroll) and George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon in Oh, Hello Live! On (Off) Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre. John Mulaney and Nick Kroll star as George St.
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