Headline : John Mulaney’s Latest Netflix Special Is Totally Weird, Unnecessary, and Wonderful

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There’s a moment in the first episode of Everybody’s in L.A., John Mulaney’s delightfully chaotic live Netflix special, in which Mulaney asks special guest Jerry Seinfeld why he decided to make his Pop-Tarts origin movie Unfrosted (which was released on — you guessed it — Netflix the same day Mulaney’s special aired, because there’s nothing more on-brand for a special about Los Angeles culture than cross-promotional synergy) .

“I don’t know. Because they let me,” Seinfeld responds, referring to Netflix. “Probably the same reason why you’re doing this. It makes sense to them, I guess, why they wanted to make it.” 

Considering Seinfeld is seated next to wildlife expert Tony Tucci at the time to discuss the topic of coyote preservation — and that a few minutes later, the trio will field a long-winded and pointless call from a normie about her experience being trailed by the animal while microdosing on a nature hike — it’s hard not to concede that he has a point. There’s no real reason for Everybody’s in L.A. — a six-episode live special interspersed with man-on-the-street interviews and pre-recorded sketches featuring the lineup of the average Comedy Central roast — to exist, and there are moments where you feel genuine empathy for the Netflix junior executive who had to convincingly pitch this to his boss. (“It’s like Eric Andre meets How To With John Wilson, but live and with jokes about LAPD officers’ taste in eyewear. Also, Ray J will be here, and we can’t ask him about the sex tape, but we can ask him about his divorce.”) 

Yes, Everybody’s in L.A. is a gratuitous vanity project almost exclusively intended for the small sliver of Mulaney’s audience that knows what Erewhon is — not, to borrow the parlance of Seinfeld himself, that there’s anything wrong with that. But as vanity projects go, it’s a pretty goddamn charming one.

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