The Oh, Hello Show St. Geegland after watching two men wearing turtlenecks and blazers at The Strand bookstore purchase separate copies of Alan Alda's book "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned". In the early 2000s, Faizon and St. Geegland hosted a weekly show at Rififi, a New York comedy club that closed down in 2008. It was during this time that Kroll and Mulaney were able to hone their characters. Roommates George and Gil are in their 70s and have strong New York accents, and they frequently mispronounce common words and names. For example, they refer to Ashton Kutcher's show
Have Your Cake and Eat It co-starred Paul Brooke, David de Keyser, Ian McNeice and James Purefoy, The series was actor and television writer Rob Heyland who wrote previously, such as "Between the Lines" and "Wycliffe". More coincidentally, Have Your Cake And Eat It arrived on the tail of ITV's "Reckless", which offered a rather less neanderthal take on the eternal triangle: for once the middle-aged woman got to choose between two men. Perhaps the bakers of Have Your Cake - it was cooked up by himself, one of whose previous dishes is "Between the Lines" - will plead that, far from a reversion to the