Early on, Adam Pally realized he and Steph Curry just look funny together. “Dan Aykroyd says you’re always looking for the number 10 in a comedy duo,” Pally says. “Literally, like, one tall one and one short, round one.
” Like Abbott and Costello or Laurel and Hardy, could Pally and Curry be the next odd couple in comedy? They’re actively hoping so with their new series, “Mr. Throwback.” All six episodes were released Thursday on Peacock, auspiciously timed to a weekend where Curry dominated in France and led Team USA to a gold medal in men’s basketball.
Pally, the journeying funnyman from many sitcoms, including “The Mindy Project” and the “Sonic the Hedgehog” world, is zooming from a hotel room in Paris, where the night before he was flipping out watching his new pal defeat Serbia at the Olympics. He was so invested in the basketball drama that his wife joked he was having a cardiac event, and he says he “almost broke Don Lemon’s hand” and “screamed at Willie Geist to stand up in the fourth quarter.” Becoming friends with Curry has made watching him play this whole year much more intense, so that “lately I am in that state of cardiac tension,” Pally says, “because I care even more.
I want him to win even more.” The 42-year-old comedian still can’t believe he’s friends with one of the greatest NBA players on the court today. They hit it off a few years ago when Curry was hosting the couples game show “About Last Night” with .