In the final season, his friend Dory, an acquitted murderer who died and came back to life, starts a cult alongside a tech guru played by Jeff Goldblum with the idea of creating a pill for enlightenment. For five seasons he played Elliott Goss, a pathological liar fond of headwear and patterns, who covers up a murder, becomes a right-wing talk show host and eventually the father to a Bad Seed child grown in a lab by John Waters. Still, he seems reluctant to let Search Party go. On Friday, January 28, Early's next project The Afterparty, a murder mystery comedy where he plays a detective sidekick to Tiffany Haddish, will debut its first three episodes on Apple TV+. I'm just trying to play her in something. In my more gaunt moments you could say I have a classic Diana bone structure. I would say I have a Diana-length haircut. "I never had any real Diana worship, but on a fashion level, like whenever I'm trying to give stylists references or when I'm trying to come up with a kind of look for a character in a show, I always give her as a reference because there's something kind of fundamentally effortlessly preppy about her," he says. That morning, however, he asked his stylist for a Princess Diana aesthetic and wore an oversized trench, striped pants, and a sweater reading "I'm A Luxury…Few Can Afford" that's actually a replica of one worn by the royal herself. Later in the same day of our interview and photoshoot, he'll show up on Late Night with Seth Meyers, legs spread wide, doing straight drag and proclaiming he's dating SNL cast member Aidy Bryant.
He now calls LA his home base, but was back in town to promote the last season with a couple of television appearances. When Early started Search Party, the first season of which dropped in 2016 on TBS, he was a New York University graduate still living in the city. "It has to be worth me potentially fucking up my back even further." Photos by Liz Clayman for Thrillist, Styling by Mitch McGuire But as he moves on from the critically acclaimed Search Party, he wants to make sure his career choices warrant any potential hurt. Whether he's dancing on Instagram, pointing at the camera in an exaggerated mimic of '90s pop dance routines, or altering his face with makeup and prosthetics, like he does in a short film parodying the NOH8 campaigns of the mid-2000s, Early's body is a tool for his jokes. If you've seen any of Early's work, you know how physicality plays into his blend of comedy that occasionally comes off as Backstreet Boys-meets-body horror by way of The Comeback's Valerie Cherish. The stakes of those scenes were so high, and literally in my head I was like, 'Keep that core tight, John," he says, sliding into the voice of a peppy workout instructor. Despite his injury, he gamely hops on top of a table for our photoshoot. "I have to engage the core as I'm trying to prevent Dory from ending the world.
"I'm a true ham at the end of the day, and it was scary to be like, 'Oh, god, I can't with a total abandon, just like, sprint,'" he tells me on a rainy morning in early January over poached eggs at the Lower East Side bistro Dirty French. So it pained him, filming scenes for the final season of Search Party where he's running from zombies, that a herniated disc in his back, which later required surgery, meant that he couldn't fling his whole body around like usual. John Early believes in throwing himself down the stairs.
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