For all the media attention surrounding Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, viewers didn’t exactly show up in droves.
That’s the takeaway now that Netflix has released its latest viewer engagement report, for January through June 2025.
According to the streamer, Mulaney’s experimental 12-episode series, which premiered March 12, kicked off strong—relatively speaking—with 1.6 million views for its debut episode. That number is comparable to what Jimmy Kimmel Live! draws on a typical night and was high enough to rank it among the streamer’s most-watched shows that day.
But that audience didn’t stick around.
Episode two drew just 500,000 views. Episode three dropped further to 400,000, and the rest of the season hovered between 300,000-500,000 views per episode, closing out at 400,000 for the season finale, in which Mulaney memorably took to the ring with three 14-year-olds.
The falloff resurfaces questions about whether there’s enough demand for a streaming take on late night.
The show may also have been hurt by its weekly format—its predecessor Everybody’s in L.A., which was produced nightly during 2024’s Netflix Is a Joke Festival, amassed more total watch-time (8,000,000 hours) over six episodes than Everybody’s Live accrued over 12 episodes (5,900,000 hours).
Whether the show’s less-than-stellar numbers spell trouble for a second season (which we understand was originally the plan) remains to be seen.
In June, when LateNighter’s Bill Carter asked the streamer’s comedy chief Robbie Praw whether we could expect to see more Everybody’s Live, Praw was noncommittal, saying simply “I have nothing to elaborate on at this time.” Mulaney himself has also deflected questions on the show’s future.
Viewership numbers by episode follow below. (Data via Netflix.)
