John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City

"John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City" (2018) is a stand-up special you can watch online on iFILM, shot at New York's Radio City Music Hall and directed by Alex Timbers — who staged it more like a theater piece than a standard live taping.

Mulaney covers a handful of obsessions over the hour: the specific absurdity of his Catholic childhood, writing rooms at Saturday Night Live, the case against college, and the low-grade dread of getting older when 11 PM starts to feel like a threat. What sets him apart from most stand-ups is the method: no shock value, no crowd work, just sentences built with almost surgical precision. The special picked up an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special. Stream "Kid Gorgeous" online on iFILM.