McCarthy and Falcone officially met 10 years later at The Groundlings, an improv and sketch comedy theatre in LA. They had signed up for the same comedy writing class, and McCarthy immediately took a liking to Falcone after watching his improv on day one of the course. "Ben got up there and was so quiet and was just very peculiar," she revealed in an October 2018 episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." "He was playing an inmate that really liked his new roommate. He kept calling it a roommate, I believe. And he was so quiet. And I realised that everybody, myself included, we had all, like — we were leaning forward, listening. And he's the only one that went really quiet. And I immediately was like, 'Oh, he's strange. I like him.' And we were friends from, like, day one."
During a June 2022 appearance on "The Late Late Show," the couple shared that they knew pretty early into their after-class hang out at the dive bar, The Snake Pit, that they had a connection. "I knew I was pretty sweet on him, for sure, like from day one. He was the only person I was like, 'I like you. That's it. I'm done. I'm done shopping,'" McCarthy told James Cordon.
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