The other week, John Mulaney was a guest on Seth Meyers' show, and the bulk of their very entertaining conversation centered on this week's upcoming episode of the IFC fake-documentary series Documentary Now!. The faux-work this week, titled Original Cast Album: Co-Op, takes a look at the making of the album of a fictitious Sondheimesque Broadway musical called Co-Op -- all of which itself is a spoof a classic 1970 documentary (Original Cast Album: Company) about the making of the album for the Stephen Sondheim musical Company. As readers of these pages may recall, I embedded that original D.A. Pennebaker documentary here back in 2017. Seth Meyers is an executive producer of the TV series, and Mulaney is one of the main writers of the episode, which Meyers helped out on with some of the songs. After their conversation, actor (and Northwstern graduate) Richard Kind enthusiastically performs one of the songs from the show. (Yes, it's a requirement that I mention that. In large part because I had a nice conversation with him at the wonderful "A Starry Night" NU fundraising event that I wrote about here last year, where we spoke among other things about Larry Gelbart, Stephen Sondheim and Kind's classmate Shelly Goldstein who wrote the show.) Both parts of the video are all a lot of fun, and the full episode airs on IFC this Wednesday at 11 PM on the East Coast and West Coast, an hour earlier in the Midwest.
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