John Mulaney: My ‘star-studded’ intervention ‘saved my life’
nypost.comhis divorce and the birth of his son with Olivia Munn — as well as the pandemic.He burst into song about the weird years, singing, “We all went to rehab, and we all got divorced, and now our reputation is different.
No one knows what to think. All the kids like Bo Burnham more because he’s currently less problematic. Likability is a jail.”Mulaney then admitted that he was addicted to a cocktail of drugs including Adderall, Xanax, Klonopin, and Percocet and was heavily using cocaine.In December 2020, a group of 12 of Mulaney’s friends staged an intervention in person in New York and over Zoom under the guise of “dinner with a friend from college.”The “Saturday Night Live” alum admitted in the special, filmed in February at Boston Symphony Hall, that he immediately knew when he opened the door that his friends were going to try to get him to go to rehab.“Do you know how bad of a drug problem you have to have if, when you open a door and see people gathered, your first and immediate thought is, ‘This is probably an intervention about my drug problem’?” he quipped.Mulaney shifted the focus of his intervention to who was in attendance, including Seth Meyers, Nick Kroll, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Natasha Lyonne.“Let me just call this out now, I don’t mean to be weird.
It was a star-studded intervention. It was, like, a good group,” Mulaney said. “It was a good group. As mad as I was when I walked in there, I was like, this is a good lineup, this is really flattering in its own way.”“It was like a ‘We Are the World’ of alternative comedians over the age of 40.
All comedians. Yet no one said a funny thing the entire night.”He shared that his comedian friends all promised before they got there that they wouldn’t do any bits or.
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