Plot Synopsis

Using a mixture of ensemble comedy, stand-up performances and an observational point-of-view, this half-hour, multi-camera comedy series centers on a rising stand-up comic 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. John Mulaney is a 29-year-old comedian working the stand-up circuit and looking for his big break. But when self-centered comedy legend and game show host Lou Cannon hires Mulaney as a writer, life changes drastically. Lou may be John's entree into the world of big-money show business, but he's also a total nightmare. Still, the job represents everything Mulaney thinks he wants. But Mulaney's life becomes a tug-of-war between the stress of his new job and his guilt over not being there for his two best friends and roommates: Jane, a tightly wound, yet directionless personal trainer; and Motif, a powerhouse comic who shares nothing in common with Mulaney -- except the world of stand-up. Rounding out this odd group of friends is Andre, a trust-fund baby who has a knack for showing up in Mulaney's life at the worst possible moments. If Mulaney has one refuge from the chaos that surrounds him, then it's his neighbor, Oscar, a 71-year-old gay veteran of New York who has seen it all and is Mulaney's oracle of sound advice when he feels like life has gone off the rails.
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On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 7pm ET/PT, FOX premiered the finale of MULANEY. In this new episode, "Life is a Series of Different Apartments," Mulaney and the gang secretly crash at a Lou's vacant pad and unknowingly eat some special Oscar "treats," leading to more problems when Lou unexpectedly returns from vacation early.