Who Is Martin Mull? | Official Trailer | Netflix

Who Is Martin Mull? is a documentary about Martin Mull’s creative career as a comedian, musician, television performer, and painter. Directed by Bob Saget and Neil Berkeley, it includes contributions

The Netflix documentary *Who Is Martin Mull?* does not define Martin Mull by a single profession. His career—as a musician at folk clubs, a cult comedian, a prime-time TV performer, and a painter—captures in one film the trajectory of a creator who moved across different media. The film will be released on Netflix on October 7, 2026.

A Structure Connecting Four Stages

The film moves beyond the familiar starting point of Mull as a figure known for acting and comedy, also following his musical activities and painting. Unlike biographical documentaries centered solely on a TV career, its key focus is showing how different working environments—stages, broadcasting, and galleries—were connected within the same creative career.

His Own Voice and Testimony from Colleagues

Alongside Mull’s own words, testimony is added from colleagues who knew him, including Steve Martin, Tom Waits, and David Alan Grier. Rather than listing a filmography by work, this combination focuses on how he moved across multiple fields and changed his way of working along the way.

Co-Directed by Bob Saget and Neal Buckley

The film was directed by Bob Saget and Neal Buckley. Netflix classifies it as a biographical documentary and introduces it as a film that sheds light on Mull’s comedy and artistic work together. Accordingly, it is structured to examine the breadth of his parallel creative pursuits rather than separating his popular TV image from his work as a painter.

Source: Official Netflix Tudum materials