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The only subjects that were off limits in John Mulaney: Baby J were his divorce and his newborn son.
Otherwise, the highly-admired comedian spent his entire Baby J special for Netflix — his first in five years – talking candidly about the “action-packed” time in his life when his friends staged an intervention before sending him off to rehab.
At the moment his friends and family confronted him about his addiction, Mulaney wasn’t exactly focused on its stand-up potential. “I was quite under the influence when I arrived,” he told Deadline.
But after coming out of detox, Mulaney reached out to friend/comedian Joe Mande “to kind of get a handle on what had happened there. He said it was extremely funny that I was giving notes on each person’s letter after they read it and that I told him after the intervention, how I ranked the speeches. He helped me see how the dynamic was funny right away.”
Here, Mulaney talks about the making of the special, which is up for two Emmys and will likely vie for the Golden Globes’ new Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on TV category, and why he didn’t expect that some people might feel bad about laughing at the lowest moment in his life.
DEADLINE Is it strange doing interviews about this particular special because it was so personal?
JOHN MULANEY No. I’ve always been very personal and I understand the subject matter is, for lack of a better term, darker or more intimate. But my approach to it felt similar to the rest of my specials, honestly. So I have not found it more difficult to talk about.
DEADLINE You called it a “wide-ranging conversation.” Was that meant to be code for “this might not be what everyone expects?“
MULANEY That was a callback to the GQ article that I ended the
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