John Mulaney’s next Netflix special is a children’s variety show with at least one fewer Joan Didion joke than it used to have

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With his dapper wardrobe and old-timey showbiz affectations, John Mulaney often seems like he just stepped off of a vintage Esquire cover. Now the impression has become reality, with the Emmy-winning Big Mouth star featured on the front of the magazine’s “What’s So Funny About 2019?” issue and in a profile where he wears the hell out of some suits, shares the lessons he learned from his short-lived eponymous Fox sitcom, and provides a preview of his next Netflix special, which sounds like a departure from Kid Gorgeous, in that it’s a “children’s variety show” inspired by the likes of 3-2-1 Contact and Sesame Street that puts the Comeback Kid comedian through classically Mulaney indignities and exasperations opposite literal kids.