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"FacebookPinterest\n\nKate Micucci and Riki Lindhome like a good underdog story. Case in point: the name of their musical comedy duo is Garfunkel and Oates. For their quirky and highly entertaining new IFC series, Garfunkel and Oates, the pair dipped into their own experiences to play a struggling comedy team trying to claw their way up to what Lindhome calls &amp;quot;the middle class of show business.&amp;quot; In the first episode, premiering this Thursday, Kate\u2019s ineffectual agent spoils her big audition, while Riki\u2019s sex life becomes, er, messy because of her...weak gag reflex. Was the gag reflex bit based on experience too, we asked? &amp;quot;I plead the Fifth!&amp;quot; said Lindhome. But she and Micucci were game to tell us all about burning bridges, hanging out with John Oates, and dropping some dating advice.\n\nGQ: Legend goes that Doug Benson introduced you two in 2007\u2014how did that go down?\n\n Kate Micucci: We were both at his show, the Benson Interruption, at UCB. Riki and I were both on miserable dates, and we were looking for an escape. That\u2019s how we found each other.\n\n Riki Lindhome: That was my last date with that guy.\n\n Micucci: I was actually dating my guy at the time, but...it didn\u2019t last much longer.\n\nHow did you decide which of you would be Garfunkel and which would be Oates?\n\n Micucci: I\u2019m Oates because I\u2019m short, and if I\u2019m not careful, I have a mustache.\n\n Lindhome: So I\u2019m the other one.\n\nHow has the name not gotten you sued?\n\n Lindhome: I don\u2019t know! But I\u2019m happy about it. It\u2019s parody, but we were very worried about it in the beginning.\n\n Micucci: And now John Oates is actually in the second episode-\n\n Lindhome: \u2014as the owner of a porn store.\n\n Micucci: So he\u2019s obviously very cool about it. But we still haven\u2019t heard from Garfunkel.\n\n Lindhome: One day, one day.\n\nYou often sing about sex, bad dates, and intimate details that may or may not be inspired by real experiences. Has that ever bitten you in the ass?\n\n Micucci: There have been numerous times where I\u2019ve just started dating a guy, I invite him to our show...and then it\u2019s over. That\u2019s happened to both of us, actually. Over and over again. We sometimes sing songs that are very sexual, and some guys aren\u2019t comfortable with that. Or we sing a song about how we\u2019re bad at handjobs. And then that\u2019s just the end of it.\n\nHave you ever lost friends over one of your songs?\n\n Lindhome: I might have lost an acquaintance because of &amp;quot;Pregnant Women Are Smug.&amp;quot; But we weren\u2019t close. Actually, I don\u2019t know if the woman knows the song is about her. I have a feeling she might. But she once actually said to me, &amp;quot;I can\u2019t even remember what I did before I was pregnant. It all seems so meaningless.&amp;quot; Then she asked me what I did all day! I thought, Oh, you\u2019re ending up in a song, and I do not feel bad about it.\n\nIn Thursday\u2019s episode, you sing about &amp;quot;the fade-away&amp;quot;\u2014the process of breaking up with someone by phasing them out. How do you know if you\u2019re the victim of a fadeaway?\n\n Lindhome: If you text someone and you just get an emoticon back, it\u2019s over.\n\nHave you employed the fade-away?\n\n Micucci: When I turned 30, I was still doing the fade-away, and Riki yelled at me for being immature. She gives great dating advice.\n\n Lindhome: Oddly enough! I don\u2019t take it myself, but it works for my friends.\n\nBest dating advice you\u2019ve dispensed?\n\n Lindhome: When Kate and I first became friends, she liked this guy. She said that he kept texting her, but nothing came of it. I thought he might be painfully shy. Then he came backstage after one of our shows, and he was a totally normal, confident guy. I told her, &amp;quot;He doesn\u2019t like you. He would have asked you out sometime in the past six months if he liked you.&amp;quot; And I swear she forgot about him two days later.\n\n Micucci: It\u2019s true!\n\n Lindhome: The best advice I ever got was from a guy that was dating Kate. I told him one night that maybe he should play it a little cooler, and he said, &amp;quot;No. This is who I am, I want a serious relationship, and if she\u2019s not there, then I\u2019ll know, and we can move on.&amp;quot;\n\n Micucci: But at the time I wasn\u2019t into guys who were paying attention.\n\n Lindhome: And now he\u2019s engaged to one of our friends."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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