It was only supposed to be a one-time thing, but after critical accolades and a live audience that tuned in, John Mulaney is officially a talk show host. The follow-up to “Everybody’s in LA” is appropriately titled “Everbody’s Live with John Mulaney” and will debut on Netflix for 12 weeks, once a week beginning on March 12. There was no teaser. There wasn’t even a logo, but Mulaney showed up at the Next on Netflix 2025 event to pitch it to the assembled press.
Hands down, the most entertaining portion of the morning, which included appearances from Tina Fey, Ben Affleck, and The Duffer Brothers, Mulaney had the media in stitches. And, thankfully, wasn’t reading off a teleprompter (although he had made notes for himself). Because he was so entertaining and no video was provided, we figured it just made the most sense to present his remarks in their entirety.
“Hello. Good evening, everybody. And by evening, I mean morning because it’s nine o’clock in the morning. This is the least exciting, least showbizzy time of the day. I’m so happy to be here. It’s an honor and a favor to be standing here today. This is an obligation that I hope will pay off down the road and for Netflix and, in 2025.
I have to say of all the DVD mail order businesses that pivoted, I think Netflix is in the top one or two, Red Box being a close second. Red Box actually offered me more money to do a show, but I told them to stick it. I’m a Netflix guy. I’m not going to premiere in front of supermarkets no matter how much you offer me.
In May of 2024 before everything happened, Netflix came to me, it was ‘before time,’ Netflix came to me. Robbie Praw and Bela, who I’ve worked with many, many times and had so much fun with, said that we wanted to do a six-night pop-up live show during the ‘Netflix is A Joke Festival.’ I agreed to it because it was six nights and then it was over, and I love things that will be over.
We had a blast. We had many comedians who were in town for the festival. We had lots of guests. We had a hypnotist. We had an expert on coyotes in Los Angeles. We had a palm tree expert. We had an earthquake expert. We covered most all natural disasters that take place in California except for one. We just weren’t ready.
So, Netflix and I discussed this summer not being done with the show and I was thrilled to do that. It was a total blast and it was one of those shows that neither Netflix nor I really needed to do. I never wanted to host a talk show and they were getting out of the talk show game. So, it was the perfect moment to do this.
I’m thrilled to announce that starting March 12th, I will be doing a live show called ‘Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney‘ for 12 weeks in a row once a week. 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.
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. That’s just a brief sampling of guests. We don’t know if we can lock in Mannequin Pussy, but we are in talks with them.
This is a really fun experiment. Not since Harry and Meghan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan.
Joining me on stage during the show will be our robot, Saymo, one of those West Hollywood delivery cart robots. We’re having trouble finding Saymo, so we just keep ordering Shastas and ginger ales and hoping that he’ll roll up. Richard Kind will be joining me again for this series, ‘Everybody Live With John Mulaney.; Richard and I met through a real-life ‘Baby Reindeer’ scenario. He kept showing up where I worked and I decided to incorporate him into my life.
I think that this show will be something that people will want to tune into live. We will have a host in a suit taking calls from viewers. It’s Netflix’s commitment to embracing the 20th century. 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.
If we can be one-tenth as popular on Netflix as anything from South Korea, I will have the most successful talk show in world history.
I’m really excited to bring it to March 12th. Thanks for giving me some time this morning and I’ll see you all live on ‘Everybody’s Live.’ Thanks, everybody.”
“Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney” debuts on March 12 on Netflix.
