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John Mulaney is opening up about the intervention that saved his life.
In his new Netflix comedy special, “John Mulaney: Baby J”, Mulaney got candid about the changes in his life over the last few years, including a stint in rehab and the intervention with his famous friends that got him there.
Mulaney admitted that he was addicted to a cocktail of drugs, and was heavily using cocaine when a group of 12 friends in the comedy community gathered together in person in New York and over Zoom, under the guise of “dinner with a friend from college,” to encourage him to enter rehab.
Calling it the “‘We Are the World'” of alternative comedians over 40,” Mulaney said everyone from Fred Armisen to Nick Kroll were on hand to voice their concern over Mulaney’s well-being.
“Let me just call this out now, I don’t mean to be weird. It was a star-studded intervention. It was, like, a good group,” Mulaney told the sold-out crowd. “It was a good group. As mad as I was when I walked in there, I was like, this is a good lineup, this is really flattering in its own way.”
He continued, “It was like a ‘We Are the World’ of alternative comedians over the age of 40. All comedians. Yet no one said a funny thing the entire night.”
The 40-year-old funnyman said that before he arrived, the group had promised to not to crack jokes or do bits to hammer home the severity of the situation.
“I was going psychotic. I am sitting there in an awful chair, crashing from cocaine,” Mulaney recalled. “No one will let me go to the bathroom to freshen up and the funniest people are staring at me, refusing to do jokes. It was maddening.”
“Fred Armisen was serious,” he added. “Do you know how off-putting that is?” He didn’t do a character or a voice. He was just
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John Mulaney is opening up about his intervention.
His Netflix comedy special Baby J marks his return to the spotlight after battling substance abuse, and John Mulaney’s time in rehab is something he’s willing to talk about—in unapologetic detail.
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Comedian John Mulaney has had a lot on his mind recently–and he’s spilling all the details in his comedy shows. A former Comedy Central and Saturday Night Live staff writer, John Mulaney’s net worth and fame skyrocketed after the release of his first two Netflix specials: 2015’s The Comeback Kid and 2018’s Kid Gorgeous. He repeated that success with the release of his third Netflix special, John Mulaney: Baby J., in 2023.