Nine days before the premiere of Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney, Mulaney and the writing staff are gathered around a table in the show’s Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood. It’s mid-afternoon, and the writers are kicking around ideas they imagine might come up during the show’s first episode, which Mulaney has decided will be on the topic of lending people money. Within minutes, they start throwing out hypotheticals and personal experiences. “If you lend a relative money to build a greenhouse, and they end up building an addition to their home with it, is that okay?” Mulaney asks the group. Quickly it’s clear that this happened recently with Mulaney’s mother-in-law, who he calls Miss Kim. “I don’t mean to sow division, but she fucked you,” writer Langston Kerman says. “Because?” Mulaney asks. “Because she knew it wasn’t a greenhouse from the beginning,” Kerman says.
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