I don't make plans anymore. So I'm not living minute to minute. John Mulaney More Quotes by John Mulaney More Quotes From John Mulaney I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me. John Mulaney important ideas firsts I don't know if there's a strategy really so much as, like I learned doing standup and had to learn fast, you always just try to give your favorite, strongest stuff as early as possible and you start with what you like the most. John Mulaney stuff trying giving 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 states world 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 subway stories firsts 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 comedian sitting people 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 controversial sake ifs On Friday night, it was fun [to know] that if you bombed, or whatever was going on, that you'd be on TV at 11. It was a cool feeling, and you'd get a couple hundred dollars. John Mulaney friday couple fun It's really fun to be writing and producing your own sketches. You almost have more control. John Mulaney writing fun I look back on being 17 and think, 'Oh my God, how did I not die?' John Mulaney die look think god It's been very funny to try to act like an adult. Even getting dressed. Every day, I'm like, 'Should I wear a blazer and walk around with an umbrella? Do I carry a briefcase?' Because I'm trying to be some image of the adults I saw on TV growing up. John Mulaney every-day walk day funny Sometimes I - with comedy, it's like someone liking you in high school. They either do, or they don't. And when they don't, they don't. And that's it. There are no appeals. You show up, and you're like, 'Hi! I'm -' and you stumble, and they're like, 'It's over.' John Mulaney you comedy sometimes school You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term. John Mulaney good you work food I never knew you were supposed to push off of your feet when you walked. And I tried it, and I walked much faster. John Mulaney your never you feet I like to pace onstage. John Mulaney onstage like pace My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don't think we had a family dinner where one didn't come up. John Mulaney think dinner childhood family If someone had written a review saying, ''Oh, Hello' is stupid,' we would have said, 'Yeah, it is. You're absolutely right.' That people liked it was extremely cool. John Mulaney cool you stupid people Bill Clinton fascinates me because, at the time, it seemed like his shenanigans and the people after him were the biggest political stories you could ever imagine. I remember when the 'Starr Report' was published in the newspaper, all of us were reading it in the high-school cafeteria, and a dean started taking the newspapers away from us. John Mulaney me you time people My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious. John Mulaney sense-of-humor dad humor funny I have found that people who really want to work at 'Saturday Night Live' and pursue it get pretty close. You have to be funny - but everyone who works there, it was their dream to work there. So it's kind of nice in that way - there's a lot of people who say, 'I just always wanted to do this, and now I'm doing it.' John Mulaney you work funny people I love comedians that dive into politics. I personally don't feel comfortable, with my background, weighing in unless I have a take that I think is funny enough that I would put it in front of an audience. John Mulaney feel politics love funny
