On the subway, at MoMA, at a coffee shop, in a diner.' 'And then you have friends - I'd say I get about five or 10 Gil Faizon and George St.

'Once you start to see a character like that, you start to see them everywhere,' says Kroll. 'They were just like, 'Oh yeah, that type of guy.' They were a type of guy we both knew deep in our souls.' 'They just had that, like, Bert and Ernie quality where you know they live in the same apartment platonically in a Murphy bed,' Mulaney says. Mulaney and Kroll were shopping at the Strand Book Store in Manhattan when they saw two gentlemen each buying a copy of Alan Alda's memoir, 'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned.' Mulaney and Kroll watched them, even followed them to a coffee shop to observe them from a distance. There is a real-life precedent for the characters. 'I thought it was only appropriate for the financial paper of record to give a full page to the fact that we have a tuna sandwich puppet,' Mulaney deadpans. One highlight? A 500-word piece in the Wall Street Journal about their talking tuna sandwich puppet. In December, 'Oh, Hello' sold out a three-week run at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. George mentioned that he has a twin brother, 'actress Judith Light.' Last week, they took over an episode of 'Bachelor: Live,' a talk show that runs after the ABC reality program 'The Bachelor.' Gil bared his belly, danced, and proposed to a former contestant. The characters have been popping up in strange places. 'My worst fear,' adds Mulaney, 'is becoming these people, so I'm living as them now.' For some reason, I would rather be that person all over the country for the next year.' 'It's so weird that everything in my life is now mapped around crotchety 70-year-old men who I would never want to spend an afternoon with. Kroll is just as immersed in the characters.

Oh hello too much tuna guests