

But what became evident was because I never yell at anyone in real life I have so much saved up. but he does have a daughter, so he's a good guy. JM: Well, because George was always a little meaner to people during the prankings, and a little blissfully unaware of how cruel he was and how misogynistic he was. Other Journalist: So when the decision came to have that conflict with one another, how did you decide who was going to be kind of the instigator? At a certain point it's so fun to do but when you're doing it 138 times you're like, 'Tonight I'm just gonna be like: I'm George and I'm mean!' And it also helped us really dial into the emotional arc of Oh, Hello. NK: So every night it was a different thing. Nick Kroll: Every night when George starts reprimanding Gil for the show, breaking the fourth wall, every night right by the staircase, when you're like, 'You think if you OD'ed anyone would give a shit.' It was stuff like that and then it was like whatever – They prank other people they don't get pranked.' But the first time, I was like, 'No, no, it should be them versus the world. And I would stomp my feet – I loved screaming and being mad so much.


It was the Largo show in LA, and I was like, 'Nah, nah, it's them against the world, we shouldn't do this.' And I remember the first time we ran it, I was like, 'I don't like yelling at Gil.' And by the end of Broadway, I loved yelling at Gil. It was Largo where we decided that would fight. John Mulaney: Yeah, I had a problem with that. Elite Daily caught up with John Mulaney and Nick Kroll to talk about the added cruelty in their characters, and how John grew to love yelling at Nick night after night.Įlite Daily: One of the things that stood out to me, knowing the characters from like the Kroll Show skits and everything before, is in those like earlier skits you see them as such good friends and you think, “They hate everyone else, but they're always with each other –”
