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On Wednesday evening, shortly after Ayo Edebiri made her entrance through the remarkably heavy doors of Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney (a feat even fellow guest Conan O’Brien struggled with on the same episode), she got comfortable and opened an envelope containing a review of the show she wrote for Letterboxd. Since 2018, the Bear star has reviewed movies on the movie-journaling social network, many of which have gone viral.
Fortuitously for Mulaney, she seemed to like his freewheeling talk show, comparing watching it to crack, y’know, in a good way. “OK, so we all know crack is bad,” she began. “Yes, we can all agree that crack is something bad. But consider this: Crack gave us funk music. Crack gave us Tyrone Biggums. Crack gave us Whitney Houston saying, ‘First of all, let’s get one thing straight. Crack is cheap.’” She then went on to do an impression of the late singer telling Diane Sawyer that “crack is wack” in 2002.
“The spirit of crack, one could argue, has also given us this show,” she continued. “John Mulaney, sober and a father, is basically spiritually on crack. To be clear, I think this is a good thing. This man shows up dressed up like a Pentecostal deacon’s son headed to the 2018 NBA draft, only to end up a fifth-round reject. And yet he puts out some of the sharpest comedy happening right now.” She went on to praise the show’s writers, praising how the show “indulges in volleying between keen, deeply specific observational comedy and playful surrealism. … You can’t put your finger on which way it will go or why.”
In summary, she describes Mulaney as “a gift to comedy,” adding, “he is also maybe probably insane, but I think this is good.” And, in case you were worried, she stated, “And I think crack is bad.”
And while that seemed like the end of her panegyric, she flipped the card and turned her attention to Mulaney’s sidekick on the series, veteran loudmouthed character actor Richard Kind, whom she said she loves. “I want to adopt him and take him to a diner not too far from the courthouse and split an ice cream sundae and celebrate our new family with him.”
She gave the series four stars and a heart. Considering how Mulaney, Kind, and O’Brien were in stitches throughout the whole speech, they approve of her assessment. “It’s the nicest thing I’ve ever been given,” Mulaney said.
The review is not yet on her profile.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
