John Mulaney
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There'd be well, affirmative action.
Fuck that up.
But the point is, is you could get a list and most Americans would draw a line from the nationality to the thing.
And I'm not saying they would be right, but it would certainly be our perception.
And if you're hiring a comedy writer, not a lot of lines going to the Mexican or the Asian and oftentimes the Irishman.
See, there's where I'll disagree because I think there's two schools of comedy writers in Hollywood.
But there's been a fairly disproportionate number of Irish writers.
No one draw a line to Vietnamese for showrunner.
No, that's massage.
But I still would argue.
And again, I've sort of experienced this.
There is a little bit of a you know, I'm not going to call it racism, but there is a little bit of a club.
And part of the club, by the way, is an Ivy League.
And again, you're probably right to assume that the Jew who went to the Ivy League schools got a little more on the ball than the Irishman who went to CSUN.
But there is a little bit of that.
You know what?
Let's play it safe.
Let's go with this guy.
I try to get you a gig all the time.