Inside Baby J, John Mulaney’s excellent new stand-up show (now on Netflix) finishes its 80-minute set with perhaps the biggest of its own. This comes after a hilarious (and sad) narrative hit bottom: a life-threatening cola habit that resulted in him going to rehab in December 2020. In typical Mulaney fashion, he tells this story with a sense of humor that softens the blow. cruel darkness.
But after stories of purchases – immediate foreclosure – he took a $12,000 loss to fund his habit, endured mild sexual harassment for getting fake prescriptions, and his teenage attempts to deal with drugs and alcohol on the streets of Chicago, the most damning piece of evidence of an all-time low. it comes at last. Mulaney reads from an interview she gave GQ On December 15, 2020; He went to rehab on December 18, 2020. He tells us that this is his absolute cocaine state, and the transcript proves it.
Ever since Mulaney first started telling this story on her own phone. from scratch The tour, in which he started a private workshop in 2021, attracted a lot of attention GQ by Frazier Thorpe. Now Baby J Turned out, Thorpe gave his side of the story in a new piece for this publication.
“Our conversation was as loose, wide-ranging, and bizarre as I had hoped—but for the wrong reasons, as I’ll soon learn,” Thorpe writes in an essay titled “I Am the Man Who Did the Murders of John Mulaney.” infamous GQ Interview.” “I spent most of the interview (done over the phone, not Zoom) thinking Mulaney was lightly trolling me – I had some fun with the idea that he was doing an interview about voicing an animated superhero pig.” (Mulaney as Spider-Ham in an instantly forgotten Marvel mobile game In his turn, he was doing a press tour, which was definitely not recommended.)
From Thorpe’s perspective, Mulaney’s haphazard replies: made-up stories about the haunted vacuum cleaner shops in Union Square; a pitch about a talk show that would essentially be a talk show – it was just part of the joke. He writes that there were even times when Mulaney faced introverts, such as when he considered his position as an apolitical comic in a politicized age.
After news broke in mid-December that Mulaney had been admitted to rehab, GQ released the interview earlier than expected. Added a note about timing at the top to spice up the story. But when Thorpe finished seeing from scratch she herself had the opportunity to see her interview recontextualized live, after Mulaney came out of rehab and returned to her stand-up tour months later.
Thorpe even called out to Mulaney during the episode, letting her know he was there.
“He continued to tune the set in real time and wanted to be interviewed. I about how HE It appeared during our 2020 talk – and if I could understand that something was wrong,” Thorpe said. “Since I don’t know John Mulaney personally, I can only say that I thought he looked good. the audience roared with laughter. He finished reading the interview, greeted me once more and left.”
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