John Mulaney
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I don't care.
And when I'm doing the live show, I tell whoever's doing the live show, look, say as little or as much as you like, we'll do the show.
If you want to hang back, hang back.
If you want to jump in, jump in.
It's usually a way of me trying to say to them,
Don't put the pressure on yourself to come up here and do 90 minutes of stand-up.
Participate by all means.
But if you don't have a zinger, then hang back.
We'll fill the space.
And that's what I tell them.
But at a certain point, if they've not been included in the conversation for what feels like 12, 14 minutes, I'll want to turn to them and say, well, now, what about you?
How do you experience this?
Or what do you know about this topic?
And his answers were...
That, and it made for very bizarre, albeit memorable.
Memorable.
Yeah, sure.
Like you're there to talk about a movie you have no interest in talking about.
How is he on set?