Latest John Mulaney Quotes from Interviews

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• You all have a relative who is an expert even though they really don't know what they're talking about.

  John Mulaney

  Relative

  Source: www.elle.com

• I do longer runs on things, a lot stories. I really like one-liners, I like a lot of different kinds of standup but I've always been long-winded.

  John Mulaney

  Running, Long, Different

  Source: laist.com

• A lot of comedy clubs are set up with people sitting at little tables and you have everything from the way they are seated to them ordering or taking a sip of a drink, these can make a comedian go harder and faster in a club.

  John Mulaney

  People, Comedian, Sitting

  Source: laist.com

• Part of standup is being loose and having a good time yourself and that translates to the audience.

  John Mulaney

  Good Times, Having A Good Time, Translate

  Source: laist.com

• It's important to remember that life is a joke and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.

  John Mulaney

  Thinking, Laughing, Perspective

  "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with TIME, time.com. February 21, 2017.

• Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that's awesome.

  John Mulaney

  Want, Firsts, Ifs

  "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with TIME, time.com. February 21, 2017.

• If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

  John Mulaney

  Sake, Controversial, Ifs

  "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with Ashley Hoffman, time.com. February 21, 2017.

• I think for many of us - speaking for just a pocket of the country - we trusted Obama. So when you leave your baby with your mom to watch, you don't run home and check the nanny cam. But now we've left the baby with Gary Busey, so we're going to be a lot more on it.

  John Mulaney

  Mom, Country, Running

  "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with TIME, time.com. February 21, 2017.

• Occasionally you get that one person that says "I really like that one part of this joke" and you go, "Oh thank you that's my favorite part too." But no, in order for it to be authentic hopefully you have jokes that everyone can just get on board with and then you have a few things for yourself.

  John Mulaney

  Order, Boards, That One Person

  Source: uproxx.com

• I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love them so they stay.

  John Mulaney

  Years, Laughing, Moments

  Source: uproxx.com

• That was an interesting thing I learned I think the first time I did a late night show or something. It was like, "Oh, this is for the camera and a performance that you're giving to the people at home."

  John Mulaney

  Home, Night, Thinking

  Source: uproxx.com

• If I was at the Comedy Cellar at midnight you yelled at the back of the room. But you, for television, play it to the camera because yes you're communicating to the people at home using the studio audience that's right in front of you as a guide for that.

  John Mulaney

  Home, Play, People

  Source: uproxx.com

• Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.

  John Mulaney

  Cameras, Done, Television

  Source: uproxx.com

• Everyone's very relaxed about brand names in television.

  John Mulaney

  Names, Television, Brands

  Source: uproxx.com

• There's [John Mulaney Show] jokes that I have in stand up that I wouldn't try to put in, I would try to have someone just speak extemporaneously in the middle of a scene about an episode of "Law and Order" or something.

  John Mulaney

  Order, Law, Trying

  Source: uproxx.com

• With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.

  John Mulaney

  Stories, Subway, Firsts

  Source: uproxx.com

• I was just trying to blend the standup that I do almost with like the visual sketch stuff that I did on "Saturday Night Live." And so in terms of how elastic in the world is, we'll see what we can get away with [in John Mulaney show].

  John Mulaney

  Night, Trying, World

  Source: uproxx.com

• An episode that is near and dear to my heart is the entire cast in one room for the night because we get bed bugs in our apartment building so we have to stay with Martin Short.

  John Mulaney

  Heart, Night, Bed

  Source: uproxx.com

• My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.

  John Mulaney

  Emotional, World, States

  Source: uproxx.com

• I also had Elliot Gould and Martin Short and Nasim Pedrad - let alone Zack Pearlman who is going to be a huge star, as is Seaton Smith - out there and I love writing for them and just sitting back and watching them be excellent. And when you are sitting across from Elliott Gould sharing a scene it just raises your game.

  John Mulaney

  Stars, Writing, Games

  Source: uproxx.com

• I definitely look like a toddler. I feel comfortable and I have a lot of fun out there [John Mulaney Show]. And if I were to be extremely egotistical, I'd say I got a tiny bit better.

  John Mulaney

  Fun, Looks, Tiny

  Source: uproxx.com

• Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.

  John Mulaney

  Beautiful, Baby, Perfect

  Source: uproxx.com

• I was new to acting on a stage in a narrative as opposed to acting on a stage as a stand-up. And like everything else it's just like comfort level. The first time I did stand-up I was at a place called the B3 in New York on Third and Avenue B and I not only didn't take the mic out of the stand, but I clutched the stand of the entire time.

  John Mulaney

  New York, Acting, Comfort

  Source: uproxx.com

• I've always believed that you often need less. You don't need to hear why people are friends, you don't need to hear why people are roommates, you don't need to hear why someone would help a friend to do something.

  John Mulaney

  People, Needs, Helping

  Source: uproxx.com

• I really set out to do this traditional looking and traditional sounding multi-cam sitcom, but then make the world as elastic as an animated show could be. Make the world as surreal as we wanted it to be.

  John Mulaney

  World, Animated, Surreal

  Source: uproxx.com