It’s official: Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney is no longer alive and kicking at Netflix.
The experimental talk/variety show, which had a two-season order from go, debuted in March of last year, dropping weekly episodes every Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET.
Its 12-episode freshman run wrapped last May 28, and there had been no word since on when the program might return.
But in a new interview with Variety, Robbie Praw, Netflix’s VP of stand-up and comedy formats, is bearish on John Mulaney actually doing a second, 12-episode season. At least not anytime soon.
“We don’t think so, no,” Praw said when asked if a second season was on the horizon. As he explained, “John is on a big tour. There’s no talk of him doing that right now.”
Netflix initially ordered Everybody’s Live following a successful six-episode run of its earlier iteration, John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA, which streamed in May 2024 as part of the Netflix Is a Joke Festival.
Praw was a big backer of the endeavor, telling LateNighter last June, “Every Wednesday for the last 12 weeks has been my favorite Wednesday. I think John is absolutely brilliant.”
But even back then, Praw, when asked for a Season 2 timetable, said, “I have nothing to elaborate on at this time.”
As the exec pointed out, Mulaney is “an extremely, extremely busy man.” A father of two young children, the comic last summer launched a massive stand-up tour, which continues this Friday and has dates booked through Thanksgiving.
Mulaney also booked a high-profile role in a David O. Russell film about the life of the famed NFL coach and later announcer John Madden (played by Nicolas Cage). In Madden (due out November 26), Mulaney plays Trip Hawkins, founder of the Electronic Arts video game company that put Madden’s name on a massively successful annual title.
Mulaney himself has been non-committal, saying last June on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, “There was a plan to do more and we’re figuring it out.”
“It’s been very enjoyable” he added, “and I have really ‘felt’ the twelve weeks in a row,” given that each episode is “60 minutes of all us, no commercials.”
Ratings-wise, Everybody’s Live started off strong, relatively speaking, with 1.6 million views for its premiere— around 70 percent of what Jimmy Kimmel Live! draws on a typical night.
That audience didn’t stick around, however. Episode two drew just 500,000 views, and the rest of the season hovered between 300,000-500,000 views per episode, closing out at 400,000 for the finale.
