Great show, horrible venue
by Steve on 2022-09-25Scotiabank Arena - TorontoThe show was everything I hoped it would be. The SBA was horrible. Hour long line up to get through security.
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John Mulaney is a three-time Emmy and WGA award-winning writer, actor, and comedian.
Mulaney can be seen in his latest Netflix stand up special,�BABY J. Released in April 2023, Mulaney converts his personal turmoil into comedic brilliance, which earned him 2023 Emmy nominations in Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) and won him an Emmy for Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special. BABY J, recently earned the 2024 Critic's Choice Award for Best Comedy Special (non-televised). On tour, he has sold out massive venues around North America from Madison Square Garden multiple times to the Hollywood Bowl. His 2023 tour dates included shows across US, Europe and Australia.
In 2018, John Mulaney traveled the United States with sold out Kid Gorgeous tour, which was later released as a Netflix stand-up special and won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Variety Special; In 2015, he released�The Comeback Kid, also a Netflix original, which The AV Club called the "best hour of his career;" In 2012, his Comedy Central special New In Town had Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly hailing him as "one of the best stand-up comics alive."
John Mulaney has been invited to host Saturday Night Live five times. He began writing for SNL in 2008 and created memorable characters such as 'Stefon' with Bill Hader and appeared as a "Weekend Update" correspondent. He has written for IFC's�Documentary Now!�and Netflix's�Big Mouth, on which he voices the character of Andrew. In December 2019, the critically acclaimed and Emmy nominated musical variety special�John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch�debuted on Netflix.
He's also starred on Broadway in the runaway hit written and performed alongside Nick Kroll in�Oh, Hello On Broadway. The duo have since release a Netflix special of the same name, as well as�Oh, Hello: The P'dcast, based off their characters Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland.
The show was everything I hoped it would be. The SBA was horrible. Hour long line up to get through security.
Excellent show! John is an expert entertainer and it shows. Small changes to make the content resonate with my city. Crowd work, including being sensitive to a young boy whose parents unfathomably thought John’s first post-rehab show would be great this boys first comedy show.
The show was great. Very much like his older routines and thankfully nothing like the Sack Lunch Bunch. However, the lines were stupidly long because of the cellphone lock up procedures. Also, I bought great seats and don't have a single photo to show for it. If he comes back, I'll likely go but I'll get the cheapest and furthest seats possible because there's little value to "good seats" when you can't snap any pics of the act. Also, the inconvenience of not having access to my phone was ok because my employees were off that night but if the business had been open, it could have been a liability for me. It must have been horrible for anyone that had something important happening at the same time as the show.
The show itself was great. John Mulaney was hilarious and the openers were awesome. The only issue was with the new practice of locking cell phones in bags before then show. Going through security took longer than normal which I don’t think many fans accounted for. Exiting was a nightmare as everyone was bottle necking to leave the venue. Cellphones could only be unlocked from the bags at the exits and there was maybe two machines per exit. It felt like cattle being hearded. That system may need some new planning to promote better efficiency.
How is a 9 year old child allowed into this event? Also I understand the phone case pouches, but at the end of the show there should have been people in the arena also with unlocking devices. That part was poorly executed
After four cancelled shows, he pretty much owes us this one at the very LEAST. Otherwise, great show John.
Raw, real, and funny as hell...Mr Mulaney has come through the quagmire of addiction during a pandemic, while also putting a new human into the world, and then gave us this shiny nugget, From Scatch. I mean, the man is unstoppable. Well done.
Venue staff were all fantastic. Much smoother entry and exit than many recent shows at this place. My son and I sat front row and John ended up interacting with him throughout the night and it made for an incredible and unforgettable set of memories. Great experience!!!
Because of the Yondr bags, the line up was ridiculous. We got there at 7:45 and were in the line up until 8:40. We missed the first opening act. So disorganized!! There was only one woman doing her job properly to manage the line and get things moving. The rest of the show was great. Dan Levy and John Mulaney were hilarious. Wished we had seen the first opener as well.
All his jokes were funny and he told great and interesting stories of his experience with drugs and rehab.
Wasn’t too sure if a comedy show would be my style, I’ve watched all of his Netflix specials and of course he kept me laughing through the whole thing, but I didn’t know if a live show would be the same. Both John and the two openers kept me laughing for the entire 2 and a half hours of the show, absolutely amazing. Can’t wait till he comes back!
Fantastic night out! My cheeks didn’t stop hurting until early into the morning. Hilarious!!!
John Mulaney was excellent. I laughed so much my cheeks hurt. Scotiabank arena seriously tarnished the experience. We arrived 20 mins early but ended up standing in line for an hour. It was chaos. No one knew where to go. The lines were unorganized. No information was passed to patrons. I’d seriously question attending a no phone event there again.
I love Mulaney and comedy shows in general. I enjoy seeing professionals and individuals who are craftsmen and women in the field of Comedy, and John has always been such a unique mind. His show had brilliant moments, and I understand that his rehab and intervention was going to be a main topic, and I was fine with that, although my wife and friends that I brought weren't that into the amount of the show with that focus. You could see his newer material especially about the FBI and Russia was new, and it really was great because he was taking a very logical and unique approach to the way he discusses politics in a round about way. Truly unique. The issue was the lack of staff especially around the device retrieval of our phones. I've been to the chappelle show and even Bill Burr a few weeks ago and that was fine, but the crew hired for the Mulaney show was not able to handle the amount of people and it made exiting the building pretty unsafe. Especially since trying to alleviate congestion, they were doing the device removal outside of the building on bay and LS and it was very under staffed. In the end, you can tell Mulaney was working through his new set, which did have a few bits he started on snl and maybe elsewhere, but he is on a journey, and I hope netflix or something picks up this show in like a year from LA or new York and it's polished and done, cuz I think it will be stellar. Keep talking politics John. PS. It took me until the day after the mulaney show for the JFL Toronto app to finally start working for me and my friends, my wife's app until Saturday. That's another bullshit story though.
John Mulaney is a talented individual, there’s no doubt about that. I’ve been a fan of his for years and I love his standup. This particular set dove into some heavy subject matter (his intervention and time in rehab) and I felt that he did a great job at finding the humour in an otherwise depressing situation. Can’t wait until his next tour!
John Brought us an incredible night of comedy! Absolutely loved his set and the openers were great too
John Mulaney has a unique ability to be both self-deprecating and tongue-in-cheek. He is a world-class raconteur. He is smart without being smarmy though he can appear that way but that is the genius that is John. His vulnerability and subject matter was heartwarming and appreciated.
The opening act was great only to be outdone by a performance that is perhaps one of the best I have ever seen. Never thought I’d say that about a comedy show but Mulaney’s delivery, vulnerability, authenticity and ability to connect with an audience was absolutely captivating. Admittedly I’m unfamiliar with much of Mulaney’s previous work however having attended numerous comedy performances ranging from amateur to world renowned, this was without question exceptional by any comparison. While laughter was to be expected, the sense of fulfillment provided by the show was not.
The Show was amazing. The opener had a great story about underwater drug dealers and really warmed the crowd up. Pete Davidson surpassed all my expectations and had a lot of funny stories. But the man, the myth, the legend, the asian lady himself John Mulaney absolutely killed. ALL new material. Nothing from his netflix shows. Some very good canada Jokes. And the cherry on top was that someone asked about petunia. AMAZING SHOW
Opening Act, Main Acr; all fabulous. Lots of involvement from the crowd; each show is bound to be amazing and change per audience involvement. Excellent collaboration over at the Mulaney team headquarters ;) Well done Keep it coming John! Maybe next time a V-Neck will be in order? ;)