To no surprise, Mulaney has been cancelled after one season. According to Deadline, Fox TV Group chairman Dana Walden has confirmed that they’ve pulled the plug on the series.
Mulaney follows a rising stand-up comic John Mulaney (Mulaney) who’s trying to take his career to the next level. He’s both helped and hindered by his friends and mentors. The rest of the cast includes Martin Short, Nasim Pedrad, Seaton Smith, Zack Pearlman, and Elliott Gould.
The sitcom had a poor start in the ratings on October 5th with a 1.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 2.3 million viewers. Most of the later episodes drew even worse numbers, often much worse. The January 25th installment registered a series low with a 0.4 in the demo and 1.03 million.
Mulaney began as an NBC pilot but when they passed, FOX picked up the sitcom with a six episode commitment. FOX later ordered 10 more episodes. In October, after two dismal airings, FOX reduced the episode order to 13 installments.
The series finale aired on February 15th and drew a 0.4 demo rating with 1.14 million viewers.
What do you think? Did you like the Mulaney sitcom? Was it as bad as the ratings seem to indicate?
No matter how hard they try, they cannot make another Seinfeld….sad
Mulaney was not good. I agree with others that it felt forced, and wasn’t the correct avenue for a very talented comedian. I would say if it wasn’t for Martin Short, I wouldn’t have made it through all the episodes. Hopes were high for this show – my husband and I have been fans of his for quite some time – but it just couldn’t get a good groove going. Sad.
Suxkz man.
Youre standup comedy is so good bu your acting sucks. Also the writers of the show should consider another job.,
I love John Mulaney as a standup, and I was really hoping this show would work. It didn’t. I watched the whole thing, hoping it would get better. It didn’t.
The problem was Mulaney himself. I hope he heads to some acting classes and tries again, as he’s one of the funniest standups going, and I’m sure he has a good series in him.
I agree with every word you said.
I liked some parts but I couldn’t get past Mulaney’s “acting”… I enjoyed the other characters but having a main character so poorly acted made it unwatchable for me…
Everything about this was awful; shabby writing, uninspired and very fake acting (esp. Jane, man someone praised her acting here but she was just very unrealistic in this, like she had stress all the time and couldn’t even tell her lines properly). I’m not sure this even got picked up. Good riddance.
The reasons you mentioned were bad about the Jane character are the very reasons why I praised actress Nissam Pedrads performance of that character. Stressed out. Falling in love with her cat. Pooping in her dress, plus she can’t stand comedians. She was magic!
The show had the potential to be really funny – it was just the acting that was so bad.
Mulaney was a failure to be sure. John Mulaney got off a few chuckles here & there but was mainly bland. Elliot Gould who is so good in every other character he plays is Godawful playing as an effete gay man. Seaton Smith ugh. Just plain awful. I have never seen such overacting on tv in a long time. Less said about this guy the better. Now onto the great stuff about this Mulaney sitcom. Martin Short was great as the womanizing self centered tv game host who was despicable in the first three episodes but became more likable yet… Read more »
I’m baffled how a comedian this funny could have made a show this ufunny.
Seriously, the high point of the entire series was having Ice-T do the “Mulaney is filmed…” intro. All downhill from there.
Unfortunately Mulaney was as bad as the ratings indicated – maybe worse. It was frequently implied that it was a cheap copy of Seinfeld. Where the comparison was accurate, that is where it stopped being like Seinfeld. I don’t care if you look at season 1 or season 9 of Jerry’s show – you liked the characters. Kramer, George, Elaine, Jerry – they did dumb, bad, silly things but at the end of the episode – you liked them. Not so with Mulaney. I watched the first shows. I was going to just stop since it got so bad, but… Read more »
I agree…if the show were just Mulaney and Short, it would be good. We laughed or butts off at those two. The rest of the writing and cast…terrible.
I am a fan of John Mulaney’s stand-up. He is very funny in that arena. The show had a slow start, but I felt it was picking up steam as it went along. It was a shame the writing was a little weak in the beginning, so the show never recovered in the ratings. It didn’t help not a lot of people were familiar with Mulaney, so him being the feature character left people wondering and not wanting to get emotionally attached. I would have been interested to see where it could have gone if given a better opportunity.
Exactly how I feel. I love John Mulaney, but it was difficult to translate his great stand-up skits to the sitcom medium. I look forward to laughing my ass off at his upcoming live shows.
awww, man. I LOVED this show and all of the elements. I laughed constantly! and I think I peed my pants a few times. It was a perfect throwback to all of the “filmed in front of a live studio audience” greats of the 80’s. It reminded me more of Three’s Company or “Welcome Back Kotter”. Martin Short AND Elliott Gould? Pure genius. John Mulaney is truly hilarious, but Nasim, and Seaton, are roll on the floor funny, too. Even Nora Dunn played John’s mother!
boo hiss, FOX. yet another mistake (read: “freaks and geeks”).
So true. I loved it. Fox has always been to quick to pull the plug
I stuck with this show to the end despite not liking the first several episodes. But then, most of the last half, was more than decent. I laughed quite a bit.
They should have kept this as a 6 episode season… the last 6 of the 13 filmed.
It’s a shame that John Mulaney (who is actually quite funny in his stand-up routine) couldn’t translate his “brand” of humor into a sitcom. His wry and deliberate delivery works well when telling stories on stage, but loses almost 100% of its effect when used conversationally. Add to that the fact that the show seemed to be built on a 1980’s premise of “beat-beat-beat-JOKE, ba dum dum!,” and there was really no way for this to succeed. It was forced and unfunny, and the harder it tried to be funny, the less funny it was. Perhaps Mulaney can succeed on… Read more »
This show was tragic from day 1. Fox spends millions for one failure after another. Mulaney should of not made it past idea stage.
Because of “Hulu”, I watched every episode, but, this show was so FORCED… It was the most unfunny “comedy” {sitcom} ever! “Seinfeld” he is NOT!!!