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‘John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA’ Is a Winningly Shambolic Pop-Up Talk Show: TV Review
Comedian John Mulaney hosts a week of live shows pegged to the second annual Netflix Is a Joke Festival.
But the awkwardness only added to the charm of an inherently contradictory undertaking: a hyper-local show about a sprawling patchwork of neighborhoods that’s also a global event with major superstars, an oxymoron neatly captured by wildlife advocate Tony Tucci sharing a couch with Jerry Seinfeld. His high-profile divorce and experience with substance abuse necessitated a semi-confessional turn with last year’s “Baby J,” but with “Everybody’s in LA,” Mulaney is back on more comfortable ground: a throwback vehicle for exploring highly personal hobby horses, casting himself as a self-effacing but still smoothly composed master of ceremonies. Character actor Richard Kind, himself a visiting dignitary from New York, assumes the traditional role of sidekick, objecting that the dystopian delivery robot Mulaney has brought onstage is stealing the jobs of hardworking candy couriers like his own father.
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