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I love Queer Eye. I love John Mulaney. I love menswear. The Netflix algorithm was clearly turning my brain patterns into zeroes and ones when it decided to create the Dressing Funny web-series. The quick makeover show, which just premiered on Netflix’s YouTube page, follows Queer Eye’s style expert Tan France as he goes shopping with some of the funniest names in comedy (future episodes will star Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg, Ali Wong, Miranda Sings, Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch, and Pete Davidson). Tan’s mission: help these funny people turn a look!
John Mulaney is the absolute perfect choice for a first episode, and I would not be mad if Netflix added a Tan & John docu-series to its packed lineup. They have excellent chemistry together, from France flooring Mulaney by saying his suited-up stage look actually makes him look older to Mulaney saying that Pete Davidson owns the “most flammable SpongeBob pants in the Americas.”
Here’s why this series is so extremely up my alley, though: it gets men to talk about their clothes! Insert clap emojis in there, for added effect. Men don’t talk about clothing, not nearly enough considering it’s a thing we all wear every day. And when they do, it’s usually in the context of a makeover show like Queer Eye where one guide (France) is giving lessons. It’s fantastic to hear why Mulaney, a put-together high-profile gent that has a style POV, wears what he wears. He thinks about this stuff!
The comedy kicks in when France and Mulaney offer differing ideas of what will and won’t work on/with the tall and slender comedian’s frame/vibe. France wants Mulaney to be more “cool instead of daddy” and Mulaney flat-out calls some of the streetwear options France floats “absurd.” I just want to point out–at one moment, France makes Mulaney over into… Antoni???
Like??? Mulaney’s ready to dump some Greek yogurt in some guac and call it a dish. Truly, wow.
This hypebeast detour aside, France’s magic ultimately works on Mulaney, as if there was ever a doubt (okay, I doubted a bit when Mulaney came out in that boxy AF pink linen double-breasted coat). Mulaney ends the episode with a look that looks like him and looks 36 in 2019 as opposed to 36 in 1959.
This series has only been in my life a half hour and I can say, unequivocally, that it is a gift to me. Now I have a new life goal: get a Netflix standup special so I can ultimately go shopping with Tan France on this series.
