John Mulaney has lined up his next comedy special, and it involves some help from a bunch of children
John Mulaney. Photo: Gary Gershoff/Getty Images The greatest joke writer of his generation has lined up his next comedy special, and it involves some help from a bunch of children. Esquire published a lengthy profile with John Mulaney today, and while the piece is jam-packed with tons of interesting information , the biggest bit of news is that, following his 2018 Netflix stand-up special Kid Gorgeous, Mulaney is shifting gears to a slightly different format: a children’s variety show.
Mulaney, thirty-seven, is modeling the new special on the entertainment he loved growing up: 3-2-1 Contact, the eighties-era PBS after-school classic; Really Rosie, a 1980 musical by Maurice Sendak and Carole King; and, of course, Sesame Street. “It’s been on TV how many — fifty years?” Mulaney tells me later. He’s been rewatching old episodes recently, in thrall to their elastic approach to narrative. “It’s modular, fast-paced. Bizarrely paced,” he says.
The profile includes moments where Mulaney and a group of child actors rehearse the special that will feature musical bits and sketches, like one where a kid does a book report on Joan Didion’s A Year of Magical Thinking having thought it was a book of magic tricks. “Someone said to me, ‘You know you mention Joan Didion three times in this special, right?’” Mulaney said. “We probably have to cut one of those.
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