When Netflix ordered Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, the streamer handed the comedian a two-season order, as Deadline revealed earlier this year.
Now that the first season of the weird and wild talk show has ended, with Mulaney finally booking Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Mulaney is “figuring out” what a second season might look like.
Speaking to Marc Maron on his WTF podcast, which Deadline revealed earlier today was coming to an end this fall, Mulaney said, “There was a plan to do more and we’re figuring it out”.
“Are you going to,” Maron asks. “I never know what to say to that,” Mulaney added.
“It’s been very enjoyable” he added. “I have really felt the 12 weeks in a row.”
He said he loved the format and that it felt like making 12 specials using the talk show as a format. “This felt like some kind of evergreen, weird, not-quite-any-era talk show that also is trying to be a variety show in some ways. It’s also trying to be like Jools Holland or David Sanborn’s Night Music and trying to feel very loose and then trying to feel very produced. And we just got to like try every speed too. It was more than just that we got to try a lot of bits and jokes and have guests on. It was more we just got to try whole episodes where it felt very shoestring and episodes where we were blowing it out production-wise.”
Mulaney admitted that if he did it every night, he would “scale back” what he and his team are doing.
He added that he tries to make sure it is a “very light lift for guests” with no pre-interviews or social media asks.
“It’s also a talk show designed by someone that’s been on a lot of then. So, we did without some of the things I find inconvenient, such as preparation,” he added.
Mulaney revealed that one of his favorite moments of the 12 episodes was in episode 7 – Are Dinosaurs Put Together Correctly? – with Tina Fey, who subbed in for Rita Moreno at the last minute. “Spur of the moment, I went do you collect anything? And she went, no. I went, neither do I,” he said.
