Mulaney - Sundays at 9:30PM ET/PT on Fox
Premieres Sunday, October 5, 2014 at 9:30PM ET/PT

From Emmy Award-winning writer and comedian John Mulaney (Saturday Night Live) comes Mulaney, a multi-camera ensemble comedy series about a rising stand-up comic trying to take his career to the next level and the friends and mentors who lift him up, hold him back and push him around.
John Mulaney is a 29-year-old comedian working the stand-up circuit and looking for his big break. But life drastically changes when self-centered comedy legend and game show host Lou Cannon (Emmy Award winner Martin Short, SCTV, Saturday Night Live, Father of the Bride, Primetime Glick) hires Mulaney as a writer. Lou may be John's entrée into the world of big-money show business, but he's also a total nightmare. Still, the job represents everything Mulaney thinks he wants. But does he really? And, at what cost? And what does it say about him if he quits? And what does it say about him if he stays? And has Lou had work done?

Mulaney's life becomes a tug-of-war between the stress of his new job and his guilt over not being there for his two best friends and roommates: Jane (Nasim Pedrad, Saturday Night Live), a tightly wound, yet directionless personal trainer; and Motif (comedian and television newcomer Seaton Smith), a powerhouse comic who shares nothing in common with Mulaney – except the world of stand-up. Rounding out this odd group of friends is Andre (Zack Pearlman, The Inbetweeners), a trust-fund baby who has a knack for showing up in Mulaney's life at the worst possible moments. If Mulaney has one refuge from the chaos that surrounds him, then it's his neighbor, Oscar (Academy Award nominee Elliott Gould, M*A*S*H, The Long Goodbye, the Oceans 11 franchise), a 71-year-old gay veteran of New York who has seen it all. Oscar is opinionated, refined, gentle, wise and sometimes extremely cantankerous, but most of all, he's an oracle of sound advice when Mulaney feels like life has gone off the rails.

Read our review here:
http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2014/10/fox-fall-pilot-review-mulaney-premieres.html

Watching it right now and I haven't laughed one bit, typical for FOX in putting this in the dreaded Sunday 9:30pm slot, don't care about the rest of the cast but I hope Martin Short can recover from this turd. In the beginning there's a voiceover supposedly saying that it filmed in front of a live audience which I doubt because it sounds like only three people in the audience laughing.

I expect this to be cancelled first thing Monday morning.

I watched it too.

they cancelled Cleveland Show for this?


i guess having a white guy named Andre who deals weed is kinda cool though

Watching it right now and I haven't laughed one bit, typical for FOX in putting this in the dreaded Sunday 9:30pm slot, don't care about the rest of the cast but I hope Martin Short can recover from this turd. In the beginning there's a voiceover supposedly saying that it filmed in front of a live audience which I doubt because it sounds like only three people in the audience laughing.

I expect this to be cancelled first thing Monday morning.


what will they do with 9:30 then? bring back Cosmos? run american dad re-runs while the new ones air on TBS? lol

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The John Mulaney sitcom lost half of its “Family Guy” lead-in's 18-49 demo viewers.
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It was too much like Seinfeld for me.

Wow, this was painfully bad

Wow, this was painfully bad

The way Mulaney delivered lines was so stiff and awkward that I did felt embarrassed for him.

It was too much like Seinfeld for me.

I noticed this too.

It was too much like Seinfeld for me.
Yeah I mean one Seinfeld show is enough, c'mon FOX you gotta change it up a bit.


The way Mulaney delivered lines was so stiff and awkward that I did felt embarrassed for him
This guy showed zero charisma on screen, maybe he should go back to writing whatever the hell it was he was doing that won him an Emmy for.

The way Mulaney delivered lines was so stiff and awkward that I did felt embarrassed for him.

That tends to happen a lot with a lot of pilot episodes (http://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/509629/mulaney?page=2) of sitcoms starring stand up comics. Which makes sense seeing as how doing stand up is their default setting performance wise. Plus, most pilot episodes are full of said stand up's act (the doctor's visit to scam a Xanax prescription is based on the close out bit to Mulaney's "New in Town" special) since it's material they already have written and can use as a jumping off point. Unfortunately, stand up being used as a dialogue in a sitcom comes off very clunky. And when he's doing that material, he's basically performing it to his co-star as opposed to the two engaging in sitcom dialogue.

It wasn't funny and you could see he was merely saying the lines. I'm going to give it a couple more viewings.

so far the only Andre sighting was him getting the door shut on him



haven't laughed once yet

OH ****

THE VERY END MAKE ME LAUGH MY ASS OFF


"i don't care, i don't love him"

what will they do with 9:30 then? bring back Cosmos? run american dad re-runs while the new ones air on TBS? lol
I'm guessing they'll switch Bob's Burgers and Mulaney. Bob's can hold a respectable amount of the Family Guy/Simpsons audience and the 7:30 slot doesn't really matter so if this goes sub-1.0 there it's not a huge deal.

It's a shame because I love John Mulaney's stand-up, but this show is pretty rough. Tonight's episode was an improvement, though.

It was too much like Seinfeld for me.I watched the pilot partly because it was said to be like
Seinfeld. While they both have stand-up comics Mulaney was nothing like Seinfeld. Even the weakest season 1 of Seinfeld was miles better than the Mulaney pilot.

I'm guessing they'll switch Bob's Burgers and Mulaney. Bob's can hold a respectable amount of the Family Guy/Simpsons audience and the 7:30 slot doesn't really matter so if this goes sub-1.0 there it's not a huge deal.

It's a shame because I love John Mulaney's stand-up, but this show is pretty rough. Tonight's episode was an improvement, though.

i found myself laughing at Andre's mother on the miracle of life movie :lol:


the show needs more Andre, the female adds nothing. not enough laughs either.

Its on in a couple of seconds let's give this turd another shot.

OK i've had it, this show is complete and utter BS, not even watching for Nasim Pedrad can I continue the torture to sit through another episode.

I thought tonight's second episode was an improvement over last weeks pilot.

John Mulaney from my understanding, wanted to make a modern Seinfeld, but it turned out like a bad copy (https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Mulaney-fail) that was very dated at least in its format. What I mean is that the live-studio audience format is dated.

It's arguable that Seinfeld was a show that didn't typically write the laughter into their script. They wrote a script and would adjust in the moment if people laughed. Nowadays, the formula of setup, pause for laugh, punchline, pause for laugh is just so predictable and makes it so unfunny. But on modern live-studio audience sitcoms (like say, The Big Band Theory or Mom), they seem to write jokes with the laughter in mind (setup, pause for laughter, punchline, pause for laughter). The point is that writing jokes with the timing of canned laughter factored in is pretty boring and predictable.

Maybe had Mulaney been more like been more like Curb Your Enthusiasm instead of Seinfeld it would've had a better chance.

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Unfortunately, the obvious Seinfeld comparisons created a high bar that Mulaney was unable to clear in its brief life, especially during the mid-2010s, where single-cams had been the critically preferred form of sitcommery for nearly a decade, and many terrible multi-cams (from people like Chuck Lorre) had eroded trust in that setup, making it seem not just quaint and traditional, but clichéd and tacky as well… Now, I don’t think Mulaney is as bad as naysayers have said – the issue is more that it’s nondescript; its low-concept premise, even with the added “difficult game-show-host boss” wrinkle, craves more situational particulars on which to hang more personalized stories. To that point, I think it’s all somewhat loose and undefined intentionally — it wants to be Seinfeld: SO low-concept that a focus on minute, “everyday” trivia becomes part of the situation.