A Pretty Fun List Of Potential Guest Stars For ‘Only Murders In The Building’ Season Four, Presented In No Particular Order

Only Murders in the Building does a lot of things well. It creates a fun little mystery and drips and drops out clues over the course of the season. It plays to the strengths of its stars — Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez — in a way you’d think would be obvious to every show but is shockingly hit-or-miss out there. It’s become a cozy little relaxing watch in a sea of dark and gloomy and humorless options across the very many streaming services that exist.

But I think my favorite thing the show does well is the way it folds in guest stars. This season alone we had appearances by Mel Brooks and Matthew Broderick as themselves, with the latter popping up to poke a whole lot of fun at himself. But the biggies were Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd, the former who played a struggling actress and murder suspect, the latter who played an egomaniac movie star who was the season’s victim. My god, did it ever look like they were having a blast.

Two things are important to note here:

Looking at this guy.

This is what I mean about everyone having a blast. And what I mean about the show using its pedigree and big-name cast to lure in terrific guest stars. And it’s kind of what inspired me to write this list of potential guest stars I think would make for fun additions to the cast either in season four or just going forward, generally.

Three notes before we begin:

I am a professional. Kind of. But I swear some of these are good. Let’s go.

Jon Hamm

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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Wesley Snipes

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Amy Poehler and/or Maya Rudolph

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Walton Goggins

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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Donald Glover

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Tommy Lee Jones

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Aubrey Plaza

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The Muppets

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Ayo Edebiri

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Jason Statham

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John Wick

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Edi Patterson

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Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson

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Rihanna

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Helen Mirren

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Rhea Seehorn

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Nick Offerman

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Andy Daly

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Ali Wong

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Stephen Root

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Rick Moranis

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Natasha Lyonne

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Jiminy Glick

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Thank you.