John Mulaney Promises His New Live Show ‘Will Never Be Your Source for News’
John Mulaney has zero interest in becoming the next Jon Stewart — that one-day-per-week work schedule is just too brutal.
At some point during the later years of the George W. Bush administration, Stewart and The Daily Show unintentionally created a phenomenon in left-leaning cable-watchers where a large fraction of the Daily Show audience primarily learned about politics and current events through Stewart’s roughly 22-minute skewering of the 24-hour news cycle. The success of The Daily Show contributed toward a commonly accepted misconception that stand-up comedians are somehow qualified to educate their fans on the issues that affect the entire country, a notion that the political right has recently capitalized upon in spades and one which superstar Mulaney has no interest in perpetuating on his own talk shows.
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When Mulaney premieres his new Netflix live show Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney, he will not be everybody’s source of topical insights and comedic comments on current events — he will be a comedian who makes people laugh without politically pandering or taking sides in the endlessly stupid culture war, a novel show idea that Netflix is just now exploring.
Mulaney spoke about his new talk show, which will stream live on Netflix for 12 weeks starting on March 12th, and the unique pitch for Everybody's Live With John Mulaney in a conversation with Vulture, telling them, “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.”
A continuation of his Netflix Is a Joke 2024 experiment John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA, Mulaney hopes to take the bespoke chaos of his first hit talk show and move it into even less timely territory, and Netflix is high on the idea; Mulaney revealed to Vulture that, upon hearing the above sales pitch, the streamer immediately greenlit Everybody's Live With John Mulaney for a two-season order.
In lieu of discussing the news, either political or entertainment, Mulaney promises that his new show will have a similar eclectic and electric feel to his first attempt. “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 oddly specifically stated of what’s in store for Everybody's Live With John Mulaney. “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.”
And, to prove that he has zero interest in performing topical comedy on his talk show, Mulaney offered a five-year-old punchline to drive the point home, cracking, “Not since Harry and Meghan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan.”
