As it turns out, I'm seeing John Mulaney tonight, appearing live at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, at the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, New York. In preparation, I've watched his three available stand up routines currently playing on Netflix. I think he's a funny guy at times but I don't understand his mass appeal; tonight's pavillion show has only a few seats left unsold out of six thousand available. That would be more than Harry Connick Jr. Or the band Chicago drew when they appeared earlier this season. For this Radio City Music Hall show, Mulaney riffed on the horrors of elementary school assemblies, how his college experience was like a four year game show, and how he's feeling gross at the age of thirty five. It's interesting he focused on that age, because if you catch some movies form the Forties and Fifties, like Gregory Peck's "The Gunfighter", you'll sometimes hear a character lament about being over the hill at thirty five. His 'horse in a hospital' bit was kind of clever, lampooning the former President without mentioning him by name. If you want to know which one, you'll just have to watch the program.
John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City
(2018 TV Special)
"I thought I was going to get murdered my entire childhood."
10 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers