One of John Mulaney and Nick Kroll's most successful comedic collaborations began with a sandwich piled high with an overwhelming quantity of tuna fish. Mulaney appeared in an episode of The Kroll Show in 2013 for a sketch called "Too Much Tuna," which would later become a key component of the pair's hit Broadway show and subsequent Netflix special, Oh, Hello! The show stars Mulaney and Kroll as George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon, two aging New Yorkers with unorthodox, eccentric habits. "By the time we got to Oh, Hello we both entered it thinking, 'We enjoy this so much. We want people to like it but we don't really care that much what they say,'" Mulaney told CBS News.
"I've known [Mulaney] for so long, and we love being around each other so this was such a pure joy," Kroll said of their collaboration in an interview for TIME magazine. "The fact that it then succeeded on other levels was a very good lesson."
Following the success of Oh, Hello! on Broadway in 2015 and 2016, the pair were offered the opportunity to co-host the Film Independent Spirit Awards in both 2017 and 2018. Since 2017, Mulaney has voiced Kroll's character's best friend, Andrew Glouberman, on Kroll's acclaimed, semi-autobiographical, puberty-centric cartoon Big Mouth. As for the future, the pals are open to continued collaborative comedy opportunities and, as Mulaney told TIME, preferably "the most fun and the dumbest."
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