John Mulaney’s Interview with a Ten-Year-Old Is as Delightful as It Sounds

Come­di­an and Tom Jones fan John Mulaney is the media rounds to pro­mote , what looks like a delight­ful pas­tiche of musi­cal the­ater, com­e­dy, vari­ety show, celebri­ty guests, and, amaz­ing­ly, chil­dren’s show that’s com­ing to Net­flix on Christ­mas Eve. So nat­u­ral­ly, in addi­tion to the nor­mal stop a come­di­an would make pro­mot­ing a new spe­cial he sat down for an with a ten-year-old.

Alex Bonanos is a Mulaney super­fan whose dad is an edi­tor at , so he scored the cov­et­ed chance to inter­view Mulaney for Vul­ture. The whole thing is great, but this sec­tion is par­tic­u­lar­ly delight­ful.

A.B.: In the show, you asked oth­er peo­ple how want to die. How do you want to die?

J.M.: I asked oth­er peo­ple how they want to die?

A.B.: Yeah, how they want­ed to die.

J.M.: I did? Oh, well, I asked every­one their biggest fear —

A.B.: Yeah, but you also asked …

J.M.: Oh, Natasha Lyonne! I she was talk­ing about ways she did­n’t want to die, and I did ask her. You know, there was a time when I would have answered “Assas­si­na­tion,” because then I’d be immor­tal­ized at this age, and I don’t mean that in a dark way, I mean it in a kind of Lin­coln-Kennedy-esque way, where there’s a last­ing image of me at 44, hope­ful­ly still look­ing okay. And every­one would go “He was per­fect, a great great per­son.” I used to think that. I real­ly like what I do, and I real­ly like my life, so I do hope to go very old. Also stand-up come­di­ans can keep per­form­ing into their 80s and 90s, so I hope I get the chance to do that.

The rest of the inter­view reveals that Amer­i­can trea­sure Richard Kind will par­tic­i­pate in a “Girl Talk” seg­ment and what it’s like to acci­den­tal­ly call “mom.” We can’t think of a bet­ter way to spend Christ­mas Eve.

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  1. Do you find it hard­er to stick to diet and exer­cise now that you’re a par­ent?

    Thanks for the feed­back!

    pre­mieres on Net­flix on 24. Watch it with your fam­i­ly.

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