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Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
GenreVariety talk show
Created byJohn Mulaney
Directed byJoe DeMaio
Presented byJohn Mulaney
StarringRichard Kind
Theme music composerWang Chung
Opening theme"To Live and Die in L.A."
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes5
Production
Executive producers
  • John Mulaney
  • Ashley Edens
  • John Foy
  • David Ferguson
Producers
Original release
NetworkNetflix
ReleaseMarch 12, 2025 (2025-03-12) –
present
Related
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney is an American variety talk show that premiered on Netflix on March 12, 2025. The series is aired live, serving as a continuation of the series John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA (2024). The show is hosted by comedian John Mulaney who also serves as the creator and executive producer.[1] Richard Kind serves as the show's announcer and sidekick. The series features monologues, guests, pre-taped sketches, and musical segments with field pieces shot around Los Angeles.

Conception

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The series is a continuation of the series John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA which ran for six episodes on Netflix as part of the Netflix is a Joke Festival in 2024.[2][3] The series received both the Critics' Choice Television Award and the Television Critics Association for Outstanding Talk Series. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming.

The name of the series was changed from Everybody's in LA due to reactions from focus groups which showed that, "nothing else about the show felt focus-grouped or planned with mass appeal in mind". The show would consist of 12 episodes from March 12 to May 28, 2025, with Mulaney returning as host and Richard Kind continuing his role as side-kick and announcer.[4]

Participants

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Numerous guests and musical performer appeared on the show including:[5]

Guests

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Pre-taped performers

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Musical performers

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Episodes

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No.Title [6]Directed byWritten byOriginal release date [6]
1"Lending People Money"Joe DeMaioWriting Supervised: Anna Drezen and Fran Gillespie. Writers: Jess Dweck, David Ferguson, Langston Kerman, Jeremy Levick, John Mulaney, Vanessa Ramos, Alex Scordelis, and Rajat Suresh.March 12, 2025 (2025-03-12)
Mulaney talked to guests Michael Keaton, Joan Baez, Fred Armisen and Personal finance columnist Jessica Roy. Musical guest Cypress Hill performed "Hits from the Bong". Mulaney opens the show with a monologue in which he discusses the title of the show, acting on Broadway in All In: Comedy About Love, his children, and his wife Olivia Munn's battle with cancer. Mulaney watches several men get attacked by lamps through a telescope. Saymo the robot is re-introduced. Baez talks about the current corruption in the U.S., Martin Luther King Jr.'s dirty sense of humor, and crashing her Tesla. Keaton shares an anecdote about Jack Nicholson's advice for giving money. Armisen promotes his new album 100 Sound Effects. Tracy Morgan portrays King Latifah. There's a pre-taped "Willy Loman Focus Group" sketch featuring Christopher Lloyd, Anthony Lapaglia, Rob Morrow, and others.
2"Cruises"Joe DeMaioWriting Supervised: Anna Drezen and Fran Gillespie. Writers: John Mulaney, Anna Drezen, David Ferguson, Fran Gillespie, Langston Kerman, Alex Scordelis, Jeremy Levick, and Rajat SureshMarch 19, 2025 (2025-03-19)
Mulaney talked to guests Nick Kroll, Quinta Brunson, Ben Stiller, and cruise industry expert Anne Kalosh. Musical guests Kim Gordon performed "Bye Bye", followed by Kim Deal who sung "Nobody Loves You More". Mulaney opens the show with a monologue, mentions how the show was in Netflix's top 10, the "Psychos" trend, cruise ships and the Titanic. The guests talk about the film The Poseidon Adventure and the series The Love Boat. In two pre-taped segments, Rabbi Goldstein talks extensively about the submarine thriller Crimson Tide (1995). They honored Lt. Gen. Silkk the Shocker of No Limit Soldiers. They take calls from viewers and talk about The Poseidon Adventure remake from 2006, Poseidon. Vanessa Bayer portrays Jerica the Netflix AI assistant in a pre-taped sketch. Kim Gordon and Kim Deal end the show by performing, for the first time together, "Little Trouble Girl".
3"Funeral Planning"Joe DeMaioWriting Supervised: Anna Drezen and Fran Gillespie. Writers: John Mulaney, Anna Drezen, David Ferguson, Fran Gillespie, Langston Kerman, Alex Scordelis, Jeremy Levick, and Rajat SureshMarch 26, 2025 (2025-03-26)
Mulaney talked to guests Pete Davidson, Luenell, Henry Winkler, and Licensed funeral director Raymond Perez-Plascencia. Musical guest Mannequin Pussy, in their television debut, performed "I Got Heaven". Mulaney opens the show with a monologue where he mentions Brazil, thanks the audience for not watching Adolescence, discusses the topic "Funeral Planning", and questions the idea of reading The Diary of Anne Frank. Richard Kind promotes the game pack Richard Kind's Party Starters. Guests talks about Davidson's love life. They show a pre-taped video of "The Living Will of Richard Bruce Kind". Mulaney shows a video of Butterball from Hellraiser from someone's Ring camera. Richard Kind recounts a party where Norman Lear showed him Rue McClanahan's ashes she sent to him. Production assistant and Kieran Culkin impersonator Kevin Brew recites Culkin's 97th Academy Awards acceptance speech. The panel re-enact how they would die on screen. There is a brief tribute to David Lynch showing the exterior of Bob's Big Boys playing the Twin Peaks theme.
4"Squatters"Joe DeMaioWriting Supervised: Anna Drezen and Fran Gillespie. Writers: John Mulaney, Anna Drezen, David Ferguson, Fran Gillespie, Langston Kerman, Alex Scordelis, Jeremy Levick, and Rajat SureshApril 2, 2025 (2025-04-02)
Mulaney talks to guests John Waters, Wanda Sykes, Stavros Halkias and Supreme Court lawyer Neal Katyal. Musical guests Daniel Hope with New Century Chamber Orchestra performed "Spring 1". Mulaney opens the show with an extended story about a scrapped bit involving trying to book Bone Thugs-N-Harmony for the show only to be scammed. Mulaney and Waters shared stories about hosting the Indie Spirit Awards, and Sykes talked about her standup tour. Mulaney shows two advertisements for the #KnowYourH campaign, one of which features Randall Park. Mulaney, Sykes and Waters look through the telescope where they see Richard Kind's twin get strangled to death by a mysterious man. They show a pre-taped video view of crew arrivals for the show. Aidy Bryant portrays Jelly Roll. Sykes shares her experience working for the NSA for 7 years, while Waters talks about the attractiveness of members of Antifa and the Proud Boys.
5"Getting Fired"Joe DeMaioWriting Supervised: Anna Drezen and Fran Gillespie. Writers: John Mulaney, Anna Drezen, David Ferguson, Fran Gillespie, Langston Kerman, Alex Scordelis, Jeremy Levick, and Rajat SureshApril 9, 2025 (2025-04-09)
Mulaney talks to Bill Hader, Chelsea Peretti, Johnny Knoxville, and Human Resources Executive & Employee Coach Katie Maillard. Musical Guest Bartees Strange performed "Sober" from his album Horror. The episode opens with a disclaimer saying that Richard Kind suffered a concussion and thinks he's Gene Simmons. Mulaney opens with an extended monologue about how his NBC sitcom pilot was rejected and how he later wrote commercials for Madden NFL video games featuring Ray Lewis, who gave him advice to "win your crowd" after he was wrongfully accused of murder and was later inspired by Gladiator. The pilot was later picked up by Fox and was titled, Mulaney. Hader talks about how he got fired from a movie theater after spoiling the plot of Titanic and Peretti talked about working for Burly Bear Network and at Macy's. Mulaney muses about the brilliance of Jussie Smollett's hate crime hoax. A pre-taped sketch advertises telemedicine for the #KnowYourH campaign. André De Shields appears in the audience as Chesterton Cheadle (the cat who inspired Chester Cheetah). Mulaney shows a pre-taped interview with Michael Jackson's 41 year old chimp, Bubbles Jackson (portrayed by Langston Kerman), who talks about the late singer's sexual abuse allegations and plugs his podcast.
6TBATBATBAApril 16, 2025 (2025-04-16)
Announced on-air by Mulaney, to include guests Leanne Morgan, Hannibal Buress, Nikki Glaser, and David Letterman, with musical guest Randy Newman.[7]
7TBATBATBAApril 23, 2025 (2025-04-23)
8TBATBATBAApril 30, 2025 (2025-04-30)
9TBATBATBAMay 7, 2025 (2025-05-07)

Reception

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The continuation of the series received positive reviews with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 100% rating with 5 reviews from critics.[8] Metacritic gave the series a 77% rating based on six reviews.[9] Ben Travers of IndieWire wrote, "Its sense of humor may call to mind Conan O’Brien’s absurdist “Late Night” work, and the visual style may hearken back to Johnny Carson’s era, but John Mulaney isn’t trying to make another late-night talk show. He’s trying to make his".[10]

Alison Herman of Variety described the show as being "consistently delightful chaos" adding, "Part of what made “Everybody’s in LA” so exciting was in how it took the cultural decline of the talk show as an opportunity. Rather than subjecting itself to the endless grind of daily headlines or relying on stars’ promotional schedules to book guests, the show would embrace the niche fascination its genre was already trending toward — treating “talk show” like an aesthetic to be tried on and toyed with, not a set of expectations to be met."[4]

References

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  1. ^ "John Mulaney on "Everybody's Live," sobriety and fatherhood". CBS News. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  2. ^ "Netflix's live push continues with John Mulaney's late-night talk show". The Verge. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  3. ^ "Here's What's New on Netflix This Week". TheWrap. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  4. ^ a b "'Everybody's Live With John Mulaney' Turns a One-Off Experiment Into Consistently Delightful Chaos: TV Review". Variety. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  5. ^ "John Mulaney Reveals First Guests For Netflix's 'Everybody's Live' Talk Show". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  6. ^ a b "Everybody's Live with John Mulaney Episode Listings". The Futon Critic.
  7. ^ Nick Riccardo (April 10, 2025). "David Letterman Sets Return to Everybody's Live with John Mulaney". LateNighter. Retrieved April 10, 2025.
  8. ^ "Everybody's Live with John Mulaney". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  9. ^ "Everybody's Live with John Mulaney". Metacritic. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  10. ^ "John Mulaney Isn't Trying to Solve Netflix's Late-Night Talk Show Problem. Thank Goodness". IndieWire. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
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