As personal as ‘Baby J’ gets, it’s not a free-for-all—his divorce gets one passing mention, and he doesn’t say anything at all about his marriage, Anna Tendler, or his new partner, Olivia Munn.
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believing that Mulaney is all ape—self-centered; callous; weirdly hostile to the close friends who staged an intervention for him in December 2020, the same people he credits with saving his life. Sobriety doesn’t seem to have mellowed him. Onstage, at least, it’s made Mulaney darker, meaner. “If you’ve seen me do standup before, I have kind of a different vibe now,” he tells an 11-year-old boy who’s inexplicably in the taping’s audience. There aren’t many jokes here about typical Mulaney fodder like Xennial pop culture or the weirdness of adolescence.
Still, longtime followers of his work won’t be caught totally off-guard. Much about the special is familiar, and not just because Mulaney has already performed portions of this material on
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