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Hmm. You never know.
Yeah. But so today's episode.
Okay. So I'm excited this couple, I'll
be honest. So this is about John Mulaney
and his marriage to his now, ex-wife anna-marie tendler.
I didn't even know John Mulaney was married until I heard about
this. This breakup, mmm.
And I heard about it because on Tick-Tock a lot of people were
so upset about this kind of how I was upset about Rob and
Kristen breaking up originally. And then I saw a lot of Tik toks
that were like criticizing people that were upset about
this breakup because just because it was like you don't
really know them in real life it's a parasocial relationship.
Get a life or being so upset about this relationship.
And so I was intrigued instantly of like okay, why are people
upset about this? Yeah.
And then Is the whole Olivia Munn part of it.
A love triangle love, baby. I was very good.
I knew he was married because I remember he had some joke about
his wife, loving Timothy Challenge and I related to that
and I guess you're just funny to me.
But yeah, but she's not like before this.
I don't think she's not like a celebrity in the same way that
he is. So I was intrigued about this
relationship. And I'll be honest after doing
the research for this one, I felt very, very sad.
So we're going to try to keep it light and funny so it's not
super depressing but it's not the most feel-good story.
We will get through it together. Yeah.
And but I think spoiler, I think, one reason why people are
very preoccupied with this is because there's something kind
of relatable about the breakdown of this relationship.
I'll get to that. I'm intrigued Here, I'm pumped
man. And I haven't recorded in like
weeks. So I'm so excited to be here.
I hope you guys are too. Yeah, I genuinely love doing
this show, so I hope you guys like it.
Okay, let's get into. It's okay, John Edmund Mulaney.
Who is he? I don't know.
He was born on August 26 1982. What does that make today
tomorrow? Yes, Happy birthday Joe Malin.
According to son, August 25th. Wow!
Birthday boy a boy ever go. I think that makes him A Virgo.
I've no, we gotta know what that means.
I'll be honest. Okay, so he's born in Chicago,
Illinois, his mom. And he would ya, you don't know
that he's got go boy, his mom is Ellen Malini.
She was a law professor at Northwestern University and his
dad was Chip Mulaney Junior an attorney, okay, young shoutout.
My friend went to Northwestern. Okay, his siblings who has an
older sister Claire, an older brother chip.
I'm guessing chip the third and a deceased brother younger
brother. Peter who actually died at Birth
when John was four years old. So, that's sad.
Yeah, quite sad and it was simply his maternal
great-grandfather was a man named George.
Jay Bates, who was a republican? Republican Congressman in Salem.
Massachusetts. He served from 1924 to 1937, I
kind of only ring that up. So interesting.
Yeah, I could only bring it up because we're from
Massachusetts. Yeah, I used to live in Salem.
Yeah, and I bet I had like, kind of no bearing on his life
interested, I just want that. So he grew up on Irish Catholic
Altar boy, who attended Catholic School, kind of seems like it.
Hmm, at seven years old. He joined a sketch, comedy group
called The Rugrats. How old 70?
It's quite young. Yeah, so he's been doing this
stuff for a long time and that led him to actually be To
audition for the role of Kevin and Home Alone.
Mmm, it's parents turned it down.
Oh, so he could have had a very different life.
Yeah, might be for the better though.
Growing up. He was very obsessed with TV.
And when take a bus to the Museum of broadcast
Communications to watch old episodes of, I Love Lucy and The
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. So he's really like getting
himself cultured. Yeah.
And he did School theater when he was a kid and at 13 years
old, he began Drinking and partying and using drugs
throughout his teenage years. Yeah, 13.
That's young, very young. Like at that age.
You really don't know how to like control yourself.
Yeah, I mean I guess some kids did that in my hometown at that
age but that is really young. Yeah and a lot of the kids I who
I can think of who started that early did end up having problems
with it and so did John. So that was an issue throughout
his adolescence but that Didn't prevent him from doing well,
academically. He ended up going to Georgetown
University, which is where his parents both went and men, and
he majored in English, and minored in Theology and was in
an improv group. Hmm.
And after graduating in 2004, he then moved to New York City and
worked as an office assistant at Comedy Central where he was
mostly responsible for the phones.
He tells a story that while working there, he then received
a call that Dave Chappelle at the time he was doing a comedy
special ended up abandoning his show.
And so John was responsible for breaking the news to the
executives. There are Comedy Central and
they then tried to make him fly to LA, to go get the tapes of
the show. But for whatever reason John was
like, no, I'm not doing that. And then he quit I do I kind of
don't get why I like seems like a free trip to Ella and I don't
know. So for some reason, he quit
after that and then he just did freelance stand-up comedy.
But around the time also his addiction was quite God, and it
was pretty serious. So he started he entered
recovery for drugs and alcohol to get sober.
And he said about this time, I quit drinking because I used to
drink too much and then I would black out and I would ruin
parties or so, I was told when when you do that enough, when
you black out drinking and you do crazy things, you kind of
become like Michael Jackson like any story.
Anyone says about you might be true and you don't even know by
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