In his new Netflix special, mulaney is his truest self. kvanaren writes
John Mulaney with child. Photo: Jeffrey Neira/Netflix If most comedy operates by creating and resolving tension, the primary tensions underneath John Mulaney’s new Netflix project, a children’s musical-comedy special called John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch, are existential ones.
Sack Lunch Bunch’s undercurrent of existential anxiety shows up right at the top, as Mulaney sits among a group of kid actors and performers, the titular Lunch Bunch. “What’s the tone of this show?” a girl asks him. “What do you mean?” Mulaney says. “She means, ‘Is it ironic?’ Or do you like doing a children’s show?” another girl chips in. “That’s the million-dollar question,” Mulaney tells the gathered kids. He likes doing the show, he says. It’s fun.
John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch is a few things besides a children’s TV special. It’s patently meant for adults as well as kids, for one thing. It’s a flagrantly nostalgic thing, as Mulaney also owns right at the top, a callback to the era when Sesame Street was a little dirtier and the rhythms of children’s programming had more Monty Python in them and less plodding pedantry.
It’s the kind of collection that could seem random and unmotivated, except every bit of it is tied together by Mulaney’s fascination with the way kids experience the world, and the way his own brain exists simultaneously as him-as-a-child and him-as-an-adult. Nearly all the songs are from the point of view of a child who takes herself very seriously. It’s not “Kids say the darndest things,” it’s “Kids have legitimately fascinating and disorienting perspectives grounded in very real emotion.
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