TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[MrSaigon]

That's hardly hyperbole either (paraphrasing from memory):

Mulaney: I don't think I'll ever do Letterman.
Girl: Why?
Mulaney: His people said 'you'll never do Letterman'



Mulaney: I want to host The Tonight Show like Johnny Carson
Girl: You'll be lucky to watch The Late Show with Carson Daly

[Schlich]

nooooooooooooooooo he's my favorite comedian he can't make garbage

[Vidor]

I dunno, I find Nasim Pedrad really sexy, might have to watch a little just for her.

[thrill]

It looks like a parody of Seinfeld. Maybe it's self aware enough to be good.

[Jocephus]

granted i dont know much about mulaney but i remember he'd do "editorials" on weekend update and i thought he was a seinfeld clone. rightly or wrongly but a clone.

[ghostrunner]

The Strain:

[SHOW]

The master was...underwhelming. Kind of like if Sloth from the Goonies became a vampire

[AdmiralKird]

Preface: Take all of this with a grain of salt, because I haven't ever really watched more than twenty minutes of John Mulaney, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, etc...
From those of you that have, I would like to know how this sounds...

From the little that I've seen of Mulaney and the previews, his acting/standup routine doesn't look like it would translate to a sitcom, or Seinfeld clone. His tone as a character feels like a "douchey ham" whereas Jerry was more of a relateable, realistic, average Joe. Mulaney as a person doesn't seem this way in his interviews, its just his acting. I feel like he's trying to pull a Sheldon, but I don't think it works this way because Sheldon comes off more as being a know-it-all nerd that people both laugh at and with, and that if you do this same kind of thing with a character designed as an average person, he'll just seem like a douche.

[Vidor]

We watched the premiere of the last season of "Boardwalk Empire" last night, but I missed most of it because I was drunk. Still disappointed that they skipped to 1931 and missed both the stock market crash and the murder of Arnold Rothstein.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Preface: Take all of this with a grain of salt, because I haven't ever really watched more than twenty minutes of John Mulaney, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, etc...
From those of you that have, I would like to know how this sounds...

From the little that I've seen of Mulaney and the previews, his acting/standup routine doesn't look like it would translate to a sitcom, or Seinfeld clone. His tone as a character feels like a "douchey ham" whereas Jerry was more of a relateable, realistic, average Joe. Mulaney as a person doesn't seem this way in his interviews, its just his acting. I feel like he's trying to pull a Sheldon, but I don't think it works this way because Sheldon comes off more as being a know-it-all nerd that people both laugh at and with, and that if you do this same kind of thing with a character designed as an average person, he'll just seem like a douche.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think the larger thing is that Mulaney's standup stuff is actually very close to typical terrible sitcom stuff, but he manages to pull it off. For example, this is a line from his standup that is a segue/intro, so there's no other context:

"The Dow Jones lost 200 points yesterday, and I cannot tell you how frustrating it is....to not know what that means"

That's a line that would be at home in any number of terrible sitcom pilots. Add in the fact that Mulaney's show would have other writing voices, and that he may have had to make sacrifices/changes to his vision for the brand of humor just to get the show greenlit(his show got cut at the finish line last year), and I can definitely see it toeing the line of too corny. Especially since it appears to have the generic sitcom format, the laugh track is such a non-starter for me anymore.

[stlouie_lipp]

I dunno, I find Nasim Pedrad really sexy, might have to watch a little just for her.

I do too. i didn't realize she left SNL.