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College campuses have long been steady venues for touring comedians. The crowds, after all, are often triple the size of those you’ll find in most clubs, and the money’s good if you’ve yet to hit that elusive “arena stage” of stardom. It was curious, then, when, a few years ago, some of the world’s most successful…
As much fun as Spider-Man: Homecoming was, Sony’s animated Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is looking like a significantly wackier adventure that gleefully dives headfirst into the weirdest parts of the web-head’s comic book history. Previous trailers for the film established the movie’s alternate universe (or…
Disappointing season of your favorite prestige drama got you down? Let down by the big sitcom revival that promised to open up a dialogue, but just wound up taking potshots at easy (and vulnerable) targets while setting up a runway for Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing over at Old Man Murdoch’s place? A thousand Netflix…
To kick off the third season of Good One, Vulture’s comedy podcast, guest John Mulaney gives listeners some much-needed insight into how the hell he became one of the best living stand-up comedians. Anyone who has watched his new special, Kid Gorgeous, will agree that Mulaney is in peak form right now, but his journey…
Recently, the world has come to rest its feverish gaze upon the work of J.J. Bittenbinder, a retired Chicago cop who was brought in to elementary schools to teach children how to stay safe, but who nevertheless terrified a young John Mulaney. Since Mulaney’s retelling of that story in his recent comedy special, …
Last night, James Corden hosted both Zooey Deschanel and John Mulaney in a double interview, and the two guests were able to generate some unforced banter despite the intensity of the format. Deschanel gets in a good anecdote about being part of a creepy “youth pageant,” but Mulaney gets a lot of the best bits, saying…
In his recent Netflix special Kid Gorgeous At Radio City, John Mulaney dedicates a good chunk of his set to Detective J.J. Bittenbinder, a former Chicago cop with a big mustache and a cowboy hat who used to visit schools and make presentations to kids about how to avoid being kidnapped and murdered. Mulaney’s jokes…
“Like a lot of stand-ups, John Mulaney’s comedy traffics in unmasking absurdity. But he is unmatched at building his dissection of ludicrousness (school assemblies, college, aging, manners, church) on an escalating series of hilariously observed, unerringly specific details… Mulaney has a booming delivery that…
One of the more memorable bits from John Mulaney’s laugh-packed new stand up special is his description of child homicide detective and public speaker J.J. Bittenbinder. With his signature cowboy hat, handlebar mustache, thick Chicago accent, and graphic descriptions of ways children could fend off their would-be…
Coming out onto the enormous, lavishly glitzy stage of Radio City Music Hall to start his new comedy special, John Mulaney stands alone facing the huge, appreciative crowd and squarely orients himself with his very first line: “I love to play venues where, if the guy that built the venue could see me on the stage, he…
Sometime between wrapping a Broadway show and heading off on his Kid Gorgeous tour, John Mulaney learned to walk again. That’s not a metaphor for the stand-up comic and former Saturday Night Live writer scratching his way back to the top. After all, that Broadway show was the highly successful Oh, Hello, and Mulaney…
These days, Saturday Night Live is at its best when it’s being unapologetically weird, like with “Space Pants” or the initial David S. Pumpkins sketch, and former writer John Mulaney appeared to be very conscious of that fact during his first-ever hosting gig on the show last night. The two best sketches from last…
“If you’re watching this live right now, I’ll see your crazy ass in hell.”
John Mulaney’s hosting Saturday Night Live this week, a homecoming for a writer who spent almost five years on the program, and to promote this achievement he stopped by The Tonight Show for a few minutes of his characteristic self-effacement. He was aided in these efforts by Cardi B, who just released her excellent…
Once every generation, there emerges a creature of such divine beauty and effortless cool that the masses are inevitably pulled in one of two directions: Instant devotion or reactionary ire. Such is the case for young actor Timothée Chalamet, whose smoldering gaze sent stars crashing into our eyes while headlining two…
John Mulaney has a long and storied history with Saturday Night Live; as the co-creator—and frequent breaker—of Bill Hader’s beloved Weekend Update correspondent Stefon, Mulaney spent six years on the show’s writing staff, filling it with some of its strangest, funniest jokes of the last several years. Outside the…
Get ready for more of The Comeback Kid (in a sense): Netflix has just announced a new stand-up special from John Mulaney. A press release teased the upcoming John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous At Radio City, which was filmed during Mulaney’s sold-out, seven-night run at Radio City Music Hall earlier this year. It’ll stream…
Seth and Lauren Rogen’s altruistic variety special, Hilarity For Charity, is coming to Netflix for the first time in its six-year history. The streaming platform and the Future Man executive producer announced the collaboration today along with a stacked lineup. The indefatigable Tiffany Haddish has secured a spot in…
Breaking once during a skit is fine. It’s a rare moment of relatability between performer and audience. Breaking multiple times during a skit, however, is decidedly less charming. It’s annoying and unprofessional and the reason we hated Jimmy Fallon before the whole Trump-toussle thing. That said, Bill Hader’s…