Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney Again
“Not since Harry and Meghan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan.”
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… And now we can all let out a giant sigh of collective relief: Richard Kind and Saymo will grace our screens in tandem again very soon — as in March 12 at 10 p.m. ET soon. In a new trailer for Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney, the follow-up to Mulaney’s 2024 live talk show, Everybody’s in L.A, the comedian seems antsy to get going. “Let me know when you’re tight enough that I should say the line,” he says from a ground-level parking lot, barely visible in the sights of an aerial-drone camera that is slowly creeping in. “Is someone going to cue me …? I just want to be tight enough that saying the line makes sense.”
Back in October, when Netflix first announced that John Mulaney would be returning to the streamer for a sequel, details were scant. But on January 30, during its Next on Netflix event, the streamer brought the comedian out to clarify his plans for the new iteration. In addition to telling the audience that he would not be ditching his two beloved sidekicks, the comedian revealed that the show will air weekly for 12 consecutive weeks. “We will be live globally with no delay. We will never be relevant. We will never be your source for news. We will always be reckless. Netflix will always provide us with data that we will ignore,” Mulaney said jokingly. Netflix apparently loved this pitch so much that it gave the show a two-season order.
While the new show will no longer be so L.A.-centric, it will retain many of the elements of the original format we initially loved. That includes live calls from audience members and an odd mishmash of guests. “This will be the one place where you could see Arnold Schwarzenegger sitting next to Nikki Glaser sitting next to a family therapist with music by Mannequin Pussy,” Mulaney offered as a hypothetical. “There is absolutely nothing new about what I’m doing but, by taking a lot of elements other people have already done and doing them out of order, it feels new, and that’s what’s important.”
If you’re worried at all that all this run-up time and premeditation could potentially kill the endearing chaos of the original show, Mulaney made it a point to reassure the audience that he’s still playing it fast and loose: “Not since Harry and Meghan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan.”
This post has been updated with a trailer.
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