EPISODE
The comedy series presents the story of a young man named John, a rising comedian. John wants to fulfill his dream and elevate his career to the highest level in the world of comedy. John lives with friends and mentors who always raise and sometimes keep him up. John gets a new job in writing comedy as he moves towards a different path.
6 February 1980, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
5 June 1978, New York City, New York, USA
28 November 1977, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
1 July 1980, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
28 July 1975, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
2 May 1972, Hayward, California, USA
29 April 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 September 1964, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
2 October 1954, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
22 December 1928, East Orange, New Jersey, USA
23 July 1987, Port Angeles, Washington, USA
October 03, 2014
Think it's easy to clone Seinfeld? Fox's dreadful, embarrassing misfire Mulaney proves otherwise.
October 02, 2014
So the show seems either a subversive deconstruction of the laugh-track sitcom blueprint or a stupefying misfire built around the blandest star ever.
October 02, 2014
This one is excruciatingly unfunny, despite the good-natured young talent at the center.
October 03, 2014
Mulaney is a comic, but he is not an actor. He could in theory grow into one, but he seems very, very ill-suited to it in the early episodes, awkward and stiff reading lines instead of talking to an audience. This is not his wheelhouse.
September 22, 2014
John Mulaney is a great standup comic and former writer for Saturday Night Live. But he's created a humorless sitcom that feels like a bad Seinfeld ripoff.
October 01, 2014
Mulaney's standup work and his Saturday Night Live resume reveal that he's a very funny guy, but this contrived, airless comedy is not a good vehicle for him.
October 02, 2014
In practice, Mulaney is fairly dire. It's an unfortunate reminder that the multi-cam format is an unforgiving beast that can swallow you whole if you aren't constantly feeding it jokes.
October 03, 2014
Mulaney... finds Mulaney surrounded by quirk, some of it good - Martin Short as his boss, Nasim Pedrad as one of his roommates - and some of it just annoying.
October 02, 2014
There are jokes that don't just hit the floor, they feel almost like a sitcom within a funnier film designed to parody bad TV writing.
September 17, 2014
The series soars when it takes a broader view by pitting the self-promoting narcissism of the roommates against the smug windbaggery of the older generation. And it is, slowly but surely, finding its legs.
