Nobody Wants a John Mulaney Talk Show Without Sidekick Richard Kind [Video]

Netflix recently announced that comedian John Mulaney will host a new live variety talk show in 2025, breaking the news via an unusually defensive and vaguely hostile social media post.

Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria provided some additional details at the Bloomberg Screentime conference on Thursday, including the fact the show will be weekly, and the decision to greenlight it was based on the success of John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A. earlier this year. “I was there at a couple of the tapings, and it was so bold and original and fresh and unprecedented, unpredictable. And I think it’ll be really fun to get to do a live show with him,” Bajaria explained.

It’s unclear whether or not the show will be a direct extension of Everybody’s in L.A., or something wholly original, but one thing is clear, it definitely needs to include the participation of character actor Richard Kind. This is not up for debate. 

Kind, who has appeared in innumerable movies …