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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.

FOX has only two live action comedies on their fall slate: 'Til Death and Brothers. As someone who's seen Brothers, I can see why they'd be concerned that this isn't going to be enough. So, if you're FOX and you haven't had a good long-running comedy hit since That '70s Show, what do you do? Find the guys who worked on that and see what the've been up to, of course.

Co-creator and executive producer Mark Brazill has been developing a new multi-camera comedy. "We'll take it!" It's just a spec script right now? "Okay, find the right cast and -- we'll take it!"

Like '70s, The Rednecks & Romeos is a coming-of-age comedy. Based somewhat on Brazill's own experiences, it's about a family trying to get by after the father loses his dealership business and the family home to bankruptcy. That may hit pretty close to home for a lot of people these days.