John Mulaney
John Edmund Mulaney is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special in 2018. He is also known for his voice acting work as Andrew Glouberman in the Netflix original animated show Big Mouth. He made his film debut in 2018, voicing Peter PorkerSpider-Ham in the Academy Award-winning animated feature film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
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John Edmund Mulaney is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special in 2018. He was the creator and star of the short-lived Fox sitcom Mulaney, a semi-autobiographical series about his life. Mulaney also performed as a character called George St. Geegland in a comedic duo with Nick Kroll, most recently in Oh, Hello: the P’dcast which was released between April 4 and May 24 2020. He is also known for his voice acting work as Andrew Glouberman in the Netflix original animated show Big Mouth. He made his film debut in 2018, voicing Peter PorkerSpider-Ham in the Academy Award-winning animated feature film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. His parents attended Georgetown University and Yale Law School. They were at Yale at the same time as future president Bill Clinton; Mulaney met Clinton in 1992. He has two brothers, one of whom is deceased, and two sisters. From watching the lifestyle of the character Ricky Ricardo on the program I Love Lucy, Mulaney knew he wanted to go into show business at the age of five. He attended St. Ignatius College Prep where he graduated in 2000. He then enrolled at his parents’ alma mater, Georgetown University, where he studied English literature and religion. He joined the school’s improv group, and met Mike Birbiglia on his stand up tour, which improved his stage presence.
After graduating from Georgetown in 2004, he moved to New York City with ambitions of a career in comedy, and was hired as an office assistant at Comedy Central. He pitched the idea for a parody of the I Love the ’80s called I Love The ’30s, which he developed along with fellow comedian Nick K roll. He discovered being on Saturday Night Live with Conan O’Brien while performing on Late Night with Conan. He would sit on the floor with his friends and listen to comedy albums that he would buy. He loves Chris Rock’s Bring the Pain, Bigger & Bigger, and Woody Allen’s Comeder & Big Black. He also listens to a lot of Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Dave Chappelle, as well as Woody Allen and Albert Brooks’ comedy albums. He likes to listen to music from the ’90s and ’00s, such as The Rolling Stones, The Doors, and The Police. He currently lives in New York with his wife and two children. He and his wife have a son, Jack, who was born in 1998. He lives with his parents, Charles Mulaney Jr. and Ellen Mulaney Pritzker, a professor at Northwestern University and an attorney and partner at Skadden Arps. His maternal great-grandfather was George J. Bates, a Republican mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, who also served as a congressman.
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