Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney Will Premiere in March

… And now we can all let out a giant sigh of collective relief: Richard Kind and Saymo will grace our screens in tandem again very soon. Back in October, when Netflix first announced that John Mulaney would be returning to the streamer for a sequel to his 2024 live talk show, Everybody’s in L.A., details about the follow-up were scant. But on January 30, during its Next on Netflix event, the streamer brought the comedian out to clarify his plans for the new iteration. In addition to telling the audience that he would not be ditching his two beloved sidekicks, the comedian revealed that the show, now titled Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney, will premiere on March 12 at 10 p.m. ET, and will air weekly for 12 consecutive weeks. “We will be live globally with no delay. We will never be relevant. We will never be your source for news. We will always be reckless. Netflix will always provide us with data that we will ignore,” Mulaney said jokingly. Netflix apparently loved this pitch so much that it gave the show a two-season order.

While the new show will no longer be so L.A.-centric, it will retain many of the elements of the original format we initially loved. That includes live calls from audience members and an odd mishmash of guests. “This will be the one place where you could see Arnold Schwarzenegger sitting next to Nikki Glaser sitting next to a family therapist with music by Mannequin Pussy,” Mulaney offered as a hypothetical. “There is absolutely nothing new about what I’m doing but, by taking a lot of elements other people have already done and doing them out of order, it feels new, and that’s what’s important.”

If you’re worried at all that all this run-up time and premeditation could potentially kill the endearing chaos of the original show, Mulaney made it a point to reassure the audience that he’s still playing it fast and loose: “Not since Harry and Meghan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan.”