John Mulaney’s one-night-only set on Thursday at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre represented the rare chance for his Bay Area audience to get a peek at the comedian’s process. Mulaney isn’t currently on tour and was only in town for the Dreamforce set — more on that later — so he was able to use the evening to workshop new material.

On Thursday, the roasting came courtesy of comic John Mulaney ... that has failed humanity so miserably?” Per The San Francisco Standard, Mulaney later observed that "some of the vaguest ...