The comedy star returned to the Bay Area after a tumultuous year.
The show was thankfully not a morality play about the fall and resurrection of an addict. Instead, he aired his frustration at not being recognized as a celebrity while in rehab and complained about having too many people he’s in debt to for saving his life. As he put it, that's a lot of dinners he has to pick up the tab on for people who only Zoomed into his intervention.
Not all of his content was addiction related. In one of his few fully sincere moments, Mulaney described how happy he was to be back in the Bay Area because some of his favorite early memories as a standup were from sets at The Punch Line in San Francisco. He poked fun at his most ardent fans for being very young women or young men who aren’t athletes and spent a few incredibly funny moments complaining about needing to pretend to be supportive of CNN and the FBI during the Trump presidency.
For all his talk of his poor publicity, Mulaney’s turmoil didn’t seem to affect his popularity. The show was completely sold out and the line to get in stretched for over half a mile. The fans were treated to a new John Mulaney — who may have been the real Mulaney all along.
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