John Mulaney is a comedy superstar finding the funny in the familiar. At 42, he already has five highly-rated specials to his name … three primetime Emmys … and a reputation as one of the best stand-up guys in the game."Now, I don't know if you've been following the news but I've been keeping my ears open, and it seems like everyone everywhere is super-mad about everything all the time."But for his new job, the stand-up is sitting down.Mulaney is hosting a talk show on Netflix, complete with a couch and celebrity guests.
And the whole thing is live, in part because he likes it better that way."It feels like there's more at stake," he said.
"I love that.It's the best." I asked, "Explain that feeling – it's like coming up against a cliff and kind of dangling over it?""No," he replied.
"It's dangling over it all the time." It began as an experiment during the Netflix Comedy Festival last year, called "Everybody's in L.A.," talking about "L.A.things," like earthquakes and coyotes.
Now the show is back with a broader focus, and a new name, "Everybody's Live With John Mulaney." It will go live every Wednesday night, starting this week."It's a fun feeling to know that hopefully a lot of people are watching," he said, "and it's live, globally, with no delays, and you could really damage your career!" To watch a teaser for "Everybody's Live With John Mulaney," click on the video player below: And he knows all about live TV.
For Mulaney, "Saturday Night Live" is home turf.He started as a writer there in 2008, and helped create some of the show's biggest characters, like Bill Hader's Stefon.
Mulaney would often change the script at the last second to throw Hader off, like during this Halloween skit:Stefon: "Have you heard of Blacula, the Black Dracula? Well, they have a Jewish Dracula."Seth Meyers: "Oh, what's his name?"Stefon: "Sidney Applebaum!" Seems like this was the thing John Mulaney was born to do.Raised in Chicago, Mulaney s...