Steve Martin’s newest play, “Meteor Shower,” will mark the Broadway debuts of comedians Amy Schumer and Keegan-Michael Key when it raises the curtain this November at the Booth Theatre. Schumer said on Instagram: “I got to do a Steve Martin play in college and have loved him since I saw him as the waiter in […]
Continue ReadingSteve Martin has a new Broadway play in the works called Meteor Shower, and he’s assembled a solid cast of comedic actors. Today it was confirmed that Amy Schumer, Keegan-Michael Key, Laura Benanti, and Alan Tudyk have all joined the cast of Martin’s play, which will be directed by Jerry Zaks and debut at the Booth […]
Continue ReadingCharacters that are such out of control embodiments of id like Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland don’t come along every day. In fact, if they did, you could bet that George and Gil would arrange for them to mysteriously end up in the East River. Even when characters that are this oddly memorable do come […]
Continue ReadingWith their outstanding two-hander Oh, Hello (based on the recurring sketch from Kroll’s self-titled sketch series) comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney… MORE
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John Mulaney and Nick Kroll’s run of Oh Hello, On Broadway, now filmed for Netflix, was a triumphant two-man tour-de-farce. Not only was their Broadway production packed with jokes, but in the middle of their massive joke sandwich, the characters of Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland inserted about 10 minutes of a show within […]
Continue ReadingA few weeks back, John Mulaney and Nick Kroll revealed their Broadway show, Oh, Hello would be headed to Netflix.… MORE
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Many of us were not able to catch the greatness that was Nick Kroll and John Mulaney’s stage version of… MORE
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You have opinions about Groundhog Day, the 1993 movie starring Bill Murray as weatherman Phil Connors, stuck in Punxsutawney, Penn, reliving the same day until he gets it right. You definitely have such affinity for it (and of Stephen Tobolowsky’s performance in the film) that multiple Broadway audiences have burst into applause just at the […]
Continue ReadingAsk any stand-up comedian today who the best stand-up of all time is or was, and they’ll likely tell you Richard Pryor, George Carlin, or want to make cases for both equally as the top of the tops. Ask any Jewish comedian from the Baby Boomers through Generation X that same question, and they’ll quickly […]
Continue ReadingNick Kroll and John Mulaney will bid a fond farewell to their Broadway run this weekend of their elder alter-egos, Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, when Oh, Hello puts on its final performance Sunday. But for any of you who missed their hilarious two-man tour de farce, there’s hope, still. They filmed their performance […]
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