Mulaney, from Universal TV, Broadway Video and 3 Arts, centers on a rising stand-up comic (Mulaney) trying to take his career to the next level and the friends and mentors who lift him up, hold him back and push him around. Martin Short co-stars as the boss, and Elliott Gould, Nasim Pedrad, Seaton Smith and Zack Pearlman round out the cast. Mulaney is exec produced by Lorne Michaels, David Miner, Dave Becky, Jon Pollack, Andrew Singer and Ackerman.
These shows are not the funniest, the smartest, the wittiest or the most interesting. They're there to pass the time, they're light-hearted, easy to follow with only half your attention on the screen, and the laugh-track even lets you know when you might have missed an obvious pun, if you want to go back and smile. Despite everything, we watch them with an involved interest as to what's gonna happen to the characters. Yup, that's sitcoms for you.