Yahoo Lifestyle John Mulaney Roasts Harry & Meghan At Netflix Event
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle weren’t present at Netflix’s annual programming event but the royal pair did catch some strays.
John Mulaney, who is returning to the streamer with a new live variety talk show, took aim at the Montecito residents as he was promoting the show.
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“Not since Harry and Meghan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan,” he joked.
It comes after Netflix struck a rather handsome overall deal with the pair’s Archewell Productions banner in 2020. That deal has led to series such as the Harry & Meghan docuseries, which launched in December 2022, interview series Live to Lead, Harry’s Heart of Invictus, which premiered in 2023, Polo, which launched last year and Markle’s upcoming lifestyle series With Love.
The former SNL writer was full of gags during the presentation.
“I have to say of all the DVD mail order businesses that pivoted, I think Netflix is in the top one or two, Red Box being a close second. Red Box actually offered me more money to do a show, but I told them to stick it. I’m a Netflix guy. I’m not going to premiere in front of supermarkets no matter how much you offer me, he joked.
Speaking a couple of weeks after the devastating LA wildfires, he added that his series Everybody’s in LA, which aired around the Netflix is a Joke festival, missed one type of expert.
“We had many comedians who were in town for the festival. We had lots of guests. We had a hypnotist. We had an expert on coyotes in Los Angeles. We had a palm tree expert. We had an earthquake expert. We covered most all natural disasters that take place in California except for one. We just weren’t ready,” he said.
“This will be the one place where you could see Arnold Schwarzenegger sitting next to Nikki Glaser sitting next to a family therapist with music by Mannequin Pussy. That’s just a brief sampling of guests. We don’t know if we can lock in Mannequin Pussy, but we are in talks with them,” he added.
“I think that this show will be something that people will want to tune into live. We will have a host in a suit taking calls from viewers. It’s Netflix’s commitment to embracing the 20th century. There is absolutely nothing new about what I’m doing but, by taking a lot of elements other people have already done and doing them out of order, it feels new and that’s what’s important,” he said. “If we can be one-tenth as popular on Netflix as anything from South Korea, I will have the most successful talk show in world history.”
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