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Mulaneys parents attended Georgetown University and Yale Law School. They were at Georgetown and Yale at the same time as future president Bill Clinton (Mulaney has said he met Clinton in 1992).[18][19] Growing up, Mulaney was an altar boy. He is the third of five children. He has an elder sister, an elder brother, a younger sister, and a younger brother who died at birth.[20] His confirmation name is Martin, after St. Martin de Porres, to honor his late brother Peter Martin, who died when Mulaney was four.[21][22]

From watching the lifestyle of the character Ricky Ricardo on the program I Love Lucy, Mulaney knew he wanted to go into show business at age five.[23] At age seven, he was a member of the Chicago-based children's sketch group "The Rugrats".[24] Because of this, Mulaney had an opportunity to audition for the role of Kevin in the film Home Alone, but his parents declined.[10] For junior high, he attended St. Clement School[25] where, in lieu of doing reports, he and his best friend, John O'Brien, would offer to perform what they had learned as a skit.[10] At 14, Mulaney played Wally Webb in a production of Our Town.[26] He also frequented the Museum of Broadcast Communications, where he watched archived episodes of shows such as I Love Lucy and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.[10] He graduated from St. Ignatius College Prep in 2000. Mulaney then enrolled at his parents' alma mater, Georgetown University, where he majored in English and minored in theology.[8][27] He joined the school's improv group, and met Nick Kroll and Mike Birbiglia.[23] He later joined Birbiglia on his stand-up tour, which Mulaney cited as helping him overcome his stage fright.[23]

After graduating from Georgetown in 2004, Mulaney moved to New York City with ambitions of a career in comedy, and was hired as an office assistant at Comedy Central.[10] After a year, he pitched the idea for a parody of I Love the '80s called I Love the '30s, which he developed along with fellow comedian Nick Kroll.[28] Mulaney was working at the network when Dave Chappelle abruptly left. Initially, the network had planned to fly Mulaney out to Los Angeles to secure the tapes for season three of Chappelle's eponymous show; instead, feeling it was a "hindrance to being a comedian", Mulaney quit and started working freelance.[29]

After performing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Mulaney was asked to audition for Saturday Night Live in August 2008, along with Kroll, Donald Glover, Ellie Kemper, T.J. Miller, and Bobby Moynihan.[30][31] Mulaney did not prepare any impressions, instead performing standup with "charactery bits in them". He went in with low expectations, although he thought it'd be a "cool story".[30] Mulaney won a spot on the writing team, where he remained for four seasons, writing the monologues for the hosts.[32] He also occasionally appeared on the show's Weekend Update segment.[33][34][35] He and SNL actor Bill Hader co-created the recurring SNL character Stefon.[36][37] Mulaney was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series with the SNL writing staff from 2009 to 2012.[38] He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics at the 2011 Emmys with Justin Timberlake, Seth Meyers and Katreese Barnes.[39]

In May 2013, NBC passed on picking up Mulaney's semi-autobiographical sitcom pilot, Mulaney.[42] In June 2013, Fox ordered a new script while considering whether to order the production of several episodes.[43] In October 2013, Fox announced that it had picked up the show for a six-episode season order.[44] Mulaney was the creator, producer, and writer of his eponymous series. The series starred Mulaney, Nasim Pedrad, Martin Short, and Elliott Gould. The series was cancelled within its first year in May 2015.[45] He has said he "wanted to do the type of live-audience multi-camera sitcoms that I grew up on".[46] The series received poor reviews,[47][48][49][50] including playwright and The New York Times TV critic Neil Genzlinger's, who wrote "It rips off Seinfeld so aggressively that in Episode 2 it even makes fun of its own plagiarism. But one thing it forgot to borrow from Seinfeld was intelligence."[51]

His first acting role on the show was in the 2019 episode "Original Cast Album: Co-Op" in Season 3. Mulaney also co-wrote the episode and the songs with Meyers. In the episode Mulaney plays the fictional Simon Sayer, a character based on composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. The episode spoofs the landmark D.A. Pennebaker documentary Original Cast Album: Company (1970). The episode features a fictional ill-fated 1970 Broadway musical, Co-op, with songs detailing the joys and pains of a New York City housing cooperative. The episode also featured performances from Rene Elise Goldsberry, Richard Kind, and Alex Brightman. The episode received widespread critical acclaim, with Esquire magazine writing, "'Original Cast Recording: Co-op' may be the best episode of the faux-documentary TV series yet".[55]

Mulaney has performed as the character George St. Geegland, an elderly man from the Upper West Side of New York, since the early 2000s. St. Geegland hosts a prank show called Too Much Tuna with fellow New Yorker Gil Faizon (portrayed by Georgetown classmate and comedian Nick Kroll) in which guests are given sandwiches with too much tuna fish.[56] The characters were popularized on Kroll's Comedy Central series Kroll Show. Mulaney has toured the U.S. with Kroll in a show called Oh, Hello, with both in character as George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon, respectively. The show premiered on Broadway on September 23, 2016, and concluded its run on January 22, 2017. The Broadway production was filmed and released on Netflix on June 13, 2017.[57] Steve Martin was the celebrity special guest, with a bonus clip showing Michael J. Fox as the guest. Matthew Broderick appeared as himself in a brief cameo toward the end of the special.

Mulaney's fourth stand-up comedy tour, Kid Gorgeous, kicked off its first leg in May 2017, concluding in July of that year.[58] A second leg began in September 2017 in Colorado Springs, Colorado[59] and concluded in April 2018 in Jacksonville, Florida.[60] The tour featured seven shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in February 2018,[61] one of which was filmed for another Netflix special.[62] Kid Gorgeous met with critical acclaim,[63][64][65] with Steve Greene of IndieWire calling it "one of the year's best pieces of writing".[66] David Sims of The Atlantic praised Mulaney's talents as a standup, writing, "With Kid Gorgeous, Mulaney is proving he can endure in a field that even the most successful and talented comics can struggle to stay afloat in."[67] At the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, Mulaney received an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for Kid Gorgeous.[68]

In January 2019, it was announced that Mulaney would tour with Pete Davidson in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts for a limited series of comedy shows, "Sundays with Pete & John". Mulaney and Davidson have become close, appearing together on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live.[84] In 2020, Mulaney interviewed actor and playwright Andr Gregory for the Chicago Humanities Festival; they talked about Gregory's memoir, This Is Not My Memoir, and discussed his life and career.[85]

In December 2019, Mulaney released a children's musical comedy special, John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch, on Netflix. The special was inspired by Sesame Street, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, The Electric Company, Free to Be... You and Me, and 3-2-1 Contact.[86] The special features Mulaney, along with 15 child actors and singers, aged 8 to 13. Celebrity cameos include Andr De Shields, David Byrne, Richard Kind, Natasha Lyonne, Annaleigh Ashford, and Jake Gyllenhaal as "Mr. Music".[87] The special has been universally praised, receiving a 96% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.[88] Critic Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone Magazine wrote, "It is, like Galaxy Quest, The Princess Bride, or Jane the Virgin, one of those gems that manages to simultaneously parody a genre and be an excellent recreation of it."[89] In 2020, Mulaney received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) and Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for his work on the special.[90]

In December 2020, Mulaney sought treatment for alcoholism, cocaine addiction, and prescription drug abuse in a 60-day program at a drug rehabilitation facility in Pennsylvania.[91] In May 2021, Mulaney returned to stand-up comedy, working out new material titled John Mulaney: From Scratch.[92] He performed several sold-out shows at City Winery in New York City[93] before announcing a tour starting in Boston, where he sold out 21 shows.[94] Mulaney's tour From Scratch was scheduled to run from March through June 2022 with 33 shows.[95] Parts of the From Scratch routine were later used in Mulaney's 2023 special Baby J.[96]

Mulaney honored Robin Williams posthumously in the Netflix special The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand-Up, which was filmed at the Hollywood Palladium as part of the Netflix is a Joke Fest in Los Angeles. Mulaney appeared in the special alongside Jon Stewart, Dave Chappelle, Pete Davidson, and Chelsea Handler.[97] In May 2022, during his From Scratch tour, Mulaney invited Chappelle to open his show, which drew criticism due to transphobic jokes Chappelle had made.[98][99]

In March 2023, it was announced that a new Netflix special from Mulaney, titled Baby J, was slated for release on April 25, 2023.[100] A teaser trailer was released on April 17, 2023.[101] The special, which was filmed in Boston, dealt primarily with Mulaney's visit to drug rehabilitation and his efforts toward sobriety. Variety noted that "the elephant in the room is acknowledged, but never tamed with a comprehensive account of when Mulaney relapsed, or why, or how his fame and fortune affected his addiction, or what it felt like to watch everything play out in the press."[96] Multiple reviews, including Esquire, compared Baby J to Richard Pryor's 1982 special Live on the Sunset Strip in regard to how frank each was about the impact of their addictions.[102]

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