John Mulaney closed out the season finale of Everybody’s Live by getting beaten up by three 14-year-old boys.
However, the comedian also brought out Bone Thugs-N-Harmony after revealing last month that he nearly got scammed when he initially tried to book them.
The season finale of the show was teen night. “Teens rule, they are the only people who have no money that I want approval from,” he joked.
He had been “hyping” this fight all month, a “fight to the death, reputationally speaking”. “The response has been overwhelming,” he said, before doing a fake buffering joke.
Elsewhere on the show, Mulaney was joined by Adam Sandler, who discussed being kicked out of multiple bands in his youth, Joe Mande, who discussed his teen diarrhea, and Sean Penn, who walked out on stage smoking a cigarette before telling a story about throwing a Molotov cocktail at a rival surfer’s van. The trio were joined by 16-year-old Zephyrine Lucan, one of Everybody’s Live’s writer’s babysitter.
Olympia punks Sleater-Kinney, featuring Fred Arminsen on drums, featured as the first musical guest, singing a cover of Kim Wilde’s Kids In America.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony closed out the show by performing their hit single Tha Crossroads, which was released in 1996.
It was an apt closing after Mulaney revealed last month that nearly scammed by a fake manager.
“If you’re not familiar with Tha Crossroads, it was an enormous hit about their friend’s tragic death,” Mulaney said. “And I cannot overstate how hugely popular it was with horned-up junior high kids at Catholic schools to grind with each other during the Clinton administration,” he said on the April 2 show.
The man demanded $2,800 up front, which Mulaney said he needed to pay himself rather than through the show’s budget, a difficult feat, as a recovering addict he wasn’t allowed to withdraw more than $300 at a time, meaning he had to call his wife Olivia Munn to explain. “It’s for Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.”
“After a little investigating, I have come to believe that the man I was talking to was not the manager of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. In fact, several sites list a different person,” he said. “I’m concerned now that I never had any direct contact with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.”
He has now.
Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney is expected to return after Deadline revealed that Netflix had handed the series a two-season order, although it’s not clear when the show will be back for another 12-week run.
The show is produced by Mulaney’s Multiple Camera Productions and exec produced by Mulaney, Ashley Edens John Foy and David Ferguson.
