[3] Childhood friends Wes Borg and musician and actor Joe Bird met actress Cathleen Rootsaert at a Rapid Fire Theatre Theatresports comedy jam and formed the group.
In April 1994, The Trolls produced the scripts, turning the stage at the Roxy Theatre (Edmonton) into a replica of a real CBC studio.
[9] In 2000, they collaborated with the Cross-dressing comedy troupe Guys in Disguise on the scripted play Piledriver, which was about a group of gay wrestlers on tour through the Bible Belt in the 1970s.
Grahn returned and he and Borg hosted The Geek Show [12] which aired on Canadian Learning Television, BookTV and Access in 2004-2005.
Live music for the show was provided by Second City veteran pianist Jan Randall who also functioned as a sidekick for Wes who hosted.
[13] Wes, Joe, and Jan took on a number of gigs at this time billed as Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, including the Seattle Comedy Festival in 2004.