Fox Fall Pilot Review: Mulaney - Premieres October 5

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Originally Posted by gidgetgrape

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.

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Originally Posted by EmoJoe

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


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

[Mace Dolex]

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

[Mace Dolex]

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.

[comedyfreak]

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

[TMC]

John Mulaney from my understanding, wanted to make a modern Seinfeld, but it turned out like a bad copy 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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MULANEY (Oct 2014 – Feb 2015, FOX)

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.