![]() “ I was a freshman, and there was this thing called the Funniest Act on Campus,” Kroll said. However, the long road to that show, “Oh, Hello”, which is now touring the country, started at the beginning of their freshman years. These two elderly gentlemen became the inspirations for the protagonists of sketches they performed in comedy clubs, on the Kroll Show, and on and off Broadway. They both bought their separate copies and we followed them to a diner where they both sat and read their copies of the book.” “So, we saw these guys, and we just sort of observed them. “We were at the Strand one day, and we saw these two older guys buying two copies of Alan Alda’s Never Have Your Dog Stuffed ,” Kroll said. For Mulaney and Kroll, however, the store would provide something else: inspiration. ![]() It is a trademark of the city, and contains “eighteen miles of books” for avid fans of literature, according to its website. In the eyes of most people, Strand Bookstore, known as the Strand, is a huge, independent bookstore in the heart of downtown Manhattan. If that first meeting set the stage for a promising future of collaboration for the pair of comedians, an afternoon more than a decade later in New York City secured it.
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