Question: What industry were both Mike Nichols and Liam Lynch a part of?

Context articles: The Sifl and Olly Show
Liam Lynch (Irish republican)
Elaine May
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (author)
Liam Lynch (musician)
United States of Whatever
Fake Songs
Sam O'Steen
Mike Nichols: American Masters

The Sifl and Olly Show is a comedy TV series that incorporates sock puppets, animation, and musical performances.
 Musicians Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco created and performed the series.
 The first episode aired on MTV in 1997.
 The show was cancelled in 1999.
 The characters, along with new material, currently appear on Liam Lynch's podcast entitled "Lynchland".
Liam Lynch (Irish: "Liam Ó Loingsigh" ; 9 November 1893 – 10 April 1923) was an officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and the commanding general of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish Civil War.
Elaine May (born April 21, 1932) is an American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian.
 She made her initial impact in the 1950s from her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols, performing as Nichols and May.
 After her duo with Nichols ended, May subsequently developed a career as a director and screenwriter.
Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director, producer, actor and comedian.
 He was noted for his ability to work across a range of genres and an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their acting experience.
 Nichols began his career in the 1950s with the comedy improvisational troupe, The Compass Players, predecessor of The Second City, in Chicago.
 He then teamed up with his improv partner, Elaine May, to form the comedy duo Nichols and May.
 Their live improv acts were a hit on Broadway resulting in three albums, with their debut album winning a Grammy Award.
"For other persons named Mike Nichols, see Mike Nichols (disambiguation)."
William Patrick Niederst (born September 5, 1970), best known as Liam Lynch, is a musician, puppeteer and filmmaker.
 Lynch co-created, co-wrote, played the music for, directed, and produced MTV's "Sifl and Olly Show".
"United States of Whatever" is a song by American musician Liam Lynch.
 The song was released as the first single from his album "Fake Songs" (2003) in 2002.
 The improvised song was written by Lynch himself.
 "United States of Whatever" is a comedy rock song that revolves around Lynch dismissively shouting "Whatever!"
 to various people.
Fake Songs is an album by American musician Liam Lynch, released on April 1, 2003 through S-Curve Records and distributed worldwide by Capitol Records.
 The album is known for featuring his best-known song "United States of Whatever", which was released as a single in 2002.
 The album features a bonus DVD that compiles two-hours of various shorts and skits created by Lynch in his home studio.
Samuel Alexander "Sam" O'Steen (November 6, 1923 – October 11, 2000) was an American film editor and director.
 He had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Mike Nichols, with whom he edited twelve films between 1966 and 1994.
 Among the notable films that O'Steen edited were "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (directed by Mike Nichols, 1966), "Cool Hand Luke" (directed by Stuart Rosenberg, 1967), "The Graduate" (directed by Mike Nichols, 1967), "Rosemary's Baby" (directed by Roman Polanski, 1968), and "Chinatown" (directed by Roman Polanski, 1974).
 On a 2012 listing of the 75 best edited films of all time, compiled by the Motion Picture Editors Guild based on a survey of its members, both "The Graduate" and "Chinatown" appear.
Mike Nichols: American Masters is a 2016 documentary film directed by Elaine May about the life of Mike Nichols broadcast on the PBS series "American Masters".
 It is derived from a lengthy interview with Nichols conducted by producer Julian Schlossberg.
 Brian Lowry of "Variety" has called it "the last memorable Nichols-May collaboration."
 Richard Brody said that although it is not a major contribution to May's life's work, it "is nonetheless distinctive in its sparseness, its fixed and almost obsessive concentration on Nichols’s face and voice... [it's] May’s highest tribute to Nichols."