It’s easy to forget, but John Mulaney was never actually a ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast member. Yes, he’d make the occasional pop-in to Weekend Update as a correspondent — “Shut the door.” — and even starred on his own Lorne Michaels-produced sitcom (with former “SNL” cast members Nasim Pedrad and Martin Short) titled “Mulaney.” We try not to talk about that second part. But Mulaney was never even a featured player at any point. Instead, he was a writer for six seasons. That time ended in 2012, but not before he gave the “SNL” viewing audience such joys as Stefon (which he co-created with Bill Hader), “Family Flix: Rocket Dog” (more on that later), and “The Obama Show,” to name just a select few. He’s also performed on Broadway, no big deal.
Still, the same people who claim to be comedy experts (you know, when they say “‘SNL’ hasn’t been funny in years. In fact, it hasn’t been funny since I was a kid, and there’s no correlation between the two. I haven’t gone back and rewatched those seasons though”) seem to have no idea who John Mulaney is. They also expect no one else to have any idea either, even though he was literally just on the show two episodes ago for Bill Hader’s return as Stefon. There was also a commercial for his Netflix stand-up special at a sold out Radio City Music Hall during this episode.
Then again, Darrell Hammond — who definitely worked with John Mulaney on this very show before — announced him as “John Mulvaney” twice, so clearly that proves he’s a nobody. (Seriously, even if that wasn’t a bit, it’s still funny.)
