‘Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney’ Turns a One-Off Experiment Into Consistently Delightful Chaos: TV Review
variety.comAlison Herman TV Critic “Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney” isn’t quite a new show. Instead, the series is the evolution of “Everybody’s in LA,” a pop-up concept — and apparently, trial run — timed to the Netflix Is a Joke festival last year.
After producing six episodes in eight days, Mulaney took 10 months to retool the series into something less hyper-regional but no less idiosyncratic. “10 months is the perfect amount of time to forget how to do this show,” Mulaney joked in his monologue.
But the next hour made clear the comedian and his collaborators forgot, and in fact changed, very little from that initial sprint. (That Mulaney referred to — and kept referring to — “Everybody’s in LA” as “this show,” not a separate one, was an accurate preview.) Richard Kind is still the announcer; the hour’s centerpiece is still an expanding panel pairing celebrities with non-famous experts in their field; Mulaney still asks callers what kind of car they drive, because while everybody may no longer be in LA, he certainly is.
The ‘70s-inspired set on a Hollywood soundstage proved a metaphor for the transition from one-off experiment to a three-month run of a dozen weekly episodes: mostly the same, with minor tweaks only apparent to a small subset of nerdy aficionados.
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