A Drag Race duo, a video game tournament, and a stand-up on vinyl

John Mulaney’s The Comeback Kid on vinyl
I’m already on the record as loving The Comeback Kid, the stand-up special John Mulaney taped in Chicago in 2015. And while my praise for the set had a lot to do with Mulaney’s physical presence onstage, I’m eager for the audio version of The Comeback Kid, because I deserve to hear the comedian’s endlessly quotable thoughts about buying a house (“we didn’t buy a house—a bank bought a house and I’m allowed to keep my shirts and pants there while I pay it off for 30 years”) and weird temp jobs even when I don’t have access to Netflix. You know, like if I’m staying at a remote cabin that doesn’t have wi-fi but does have a turntable? Look, I don’t mean to get too in-my-head about this, but then again, the Drag City edition of The Comeback Kid appears to be something that sprung directly from my deepest hopes and desires. It’s one of my favorite sets from one of my favorite stand-ups, with packaging design that looks like an old Bob Newhart LP and bonus tracks that include the alternately rousing and swooning instrumental Jon Brion composed for the special’s outro and intro. I can’t wait to introduce this thing to my copy of The Button-Down Mind—they’re going to have so many Midwestern neuroses to work out together.