Stand up comedians Lavell Crawford and Ralphie May might be starring in an 'Odd Couple' situation comedy for Comedy Central, but the two have more in common than Oscar Madison and Felix Unger ever did.

They both worked as cooks in their pre-stand-up career: Ralphie as a chef in several four star restaurants and Lavell as a short-order cook. Both were born and raised and live in the South: Ralphie is from Chattanooga, Tenn. and lives in Nashville and Lavell lives in his native homeland of St. Louis, Mo. And, yes, there is that one painfully obvious similarity. They're also two successful, edgy and hilarious comedians who have worked in an untold number of clubs and theaters and competed on NBC's 'Last Comic Standing.'

The two already sound like the perfect sitcom pair and they don't even have a script yet for their multi-camera Comedy Central sitcom 'Brothers from Another Mother.' Check out our interview with Crawford and May about how their sitcom is coming along, why they chose to do a show with a live studio audience and how they hope to help TV comedies grow a pair.

The show centers around May and Crawford as two friends who discover they share the same father when he leaves them his barbecue joint in Nashville. The comedy won't just center on May and Crawford's characters' strange relationship.

"We're going to make some controversial plot-points," May said. "We're going to use blackface in one of the scenes. We're going to put it on a dead white man."

Like all great sitcoms, May said the show won't just aim to mimic the style and substance of his and Crawford's comedy. It also aims to push plenty of buttons by being "so politically incorrect, racially insensitive and culturally controversial."

"America is ready for a very politically incorrect sitcom," May said. "I think that if we went a step further than 'All in the Family' and 'Sanford & Son,' people will like us. Those shows are still popular on TV Land and reruns. It's a shame that television after Norman Lear in the 70's backed off and became a pussy. TV didn't have any balls anymore. Very few sitcoms with the exception of 'Married...With Children' had balls and the ones that do, honestly, do very well."

That drive makes it a perfect fit for Comedy Central, Crawford said.

"Comedy Central likes it to be edgy, so we'll push it to the edge," he said, "but it's gonna be hilarious."

The show is still script development, but the two have plans to turn it into a multi-camera sitcom with a live studio audience, the first one for the cable comedy channel.

"They've been talking about doing one for years," May said. "I guess they just never had the right script that they could sell."

Crawford also said the extra cameras will give their very busy and edgy script more scope for the home audience.

"The best ones have been shot like that," Crawford said. "We wanted to go for that, so that's what we've been asking for and they said OK, we'll do that. Ralphie and me and everybody behind it thought we should go for that. The multi-camera shot offers the best blend and keeps people's attention when we have all the characters doing something."

It's also a natural fit for two road comics who absorb their energy from live audiences, May said.

"Lavell and I work best in front of an audience, so for us it was a no-brainer, but it was a hard sell," May said. "Comedy Central had never done one before....I think it was just knowing the numbers that Lavell and I do as far as the specials on their network and I think they wanted to make a little more of a show. They've had some success in the past with Sarah Silverman and others. We're not what Comedy Central normally puts on."

May and Crawford both have had their share of TV development deals and pilots fizzle through when it came time for the network to sign on the dotted line, but 'Brother from Another Mother,' they said, has some good potential to be something bigger than themselves (no pun intended).

"I'm really excited. I just can't wait to get going," Crawford said. "We're two big guys ready to make America laugh."