John Mulaney’s Off-the-Rails Netflix Show Goes All In on O.J. Simpson
Each night, John Mulaney’s Everybody’s in L.A. loosely organizes itself around a theme. Friday’s premiere of the six-episode Netflix live special was all about coyotes (well, mostly), while Monday’s follow-up tackled palm trees. Tuesday night might’ve been the cleverest theme work yet: While the episode is ostensibly about helicopters, Mulaney’s real focus actually seemed to be the late O.J. Simpson, whose infamous Bronco chase was all captured by helicopter.
At first, it seemed like Mulaney would make only a passing reference to O.J. As with each previous episode, Mulaney welcomed a pair of guests after his opening monologue. (“The official bird of California is the quail,” the comedian declared during his solo introduction, “but the official bird of Los Angeles is a helicopter circling an STD billboard.”) Alongside comedian Nate Bargatze, who once faced a helicopter-related incident while taping a special, Mulaney’s second-panel guest was Zoey Tur—the journalist-slash-helicopter pilot who captured O.J.’s slow-speed car chase from the sky. If that wasn’t enough, O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark also showed up later on.
“I caught your criminal,” Zoey told Clark as she arrived.