This one is really good. āWho has been one of your mentors in comedy
that has helped shape who you are?ā Umā¦ Actually, I have quite a few. Jon Stewart was one, Stephen Colbert, uh, Mike Birbiglia. Uh, but I actually have one that is here today. Please put your hands together for the one, the only Mr. John Mulaney, everybody! John Mulaney, everybody. Letās hear it! - Hello, hi.
- Uh, yeah. - How are you?
- Uh, Iām doing great. - Nice.
- Yeah. Do I look at you or them? You canā Itāsā¦ Itās almost one of those like, weirdā You know how like, itās the presidential debate, kind of, where youāre like, - playingā
- Iāve never run for President, but umā¦ - But if I do, Iāll remember that.
- Okay. Yeah. But I would look at my opponent
the whole time, I feel like. And be like, āWhat?
How could you say that about me?ā No matter who you were
like, standing next to. Yeah. I'd be in profile the
whole time and be like, āFor real?ā - āCory Booker, why would you say that about me.ā
- āThat's not true.ā - Yeah.
- Yeah. So you have an amazing special
that's coming out December 24th... - Yes.
- John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch. Yeah, John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch. It's a children's musical-comedy special. - Yeah.
- Yeah. Youā You guys know what that is, right? It stars me and, uh, - fifteen kids ages eight to thirteen.
- Okay. Um, and it's a general examination
of fear and anxiety, uh... - with, uh, songs and sketches for kids and adults.
- Okay. Yeah, that was pretty beautiful. Alright, so peopleā
people have asked how I know you, andā - They've asked how you know me?
- How I know John Mulaney... - Okay.
- The John Mulaney andā Weāre in the same field. - We have the same occupation.
- Yeah. But do you know there was aā There was a very critical moment, whereā Like, inā In show business
you get so many sort of like, uh, phone-a-friend. But, I was getting ready for
the Correspondentsā Dinner. - Oh, yes, yes, yes.
- And you're one of several people - that I reached out to.
- Yes. But you're one of the only
people I reached out toā Actually, one of two people
that I reached out to, personally to come down and see the set. So Iā I only hadā No, we only had 19
days to get it ready. - Yeah.
- And I remember calling you andā You ever had, get that
anxiety when you're like, "Hey, we don't hang out that much,
but, I'mā Iām gonnaā Iām asking you to physically be here,
so this is a big deal." - Uh huh.
- And then... I have that anxiety with
people I know really well. Oh, really? Okay, so I go, "Okay, I'm asking John to be here.
He's got Petunia, he's got a wife. Like, this is a lot. He's got to
come down to the Cellar and watch." Thank you for factoring in my dog.
I appreciate that. - Yeah, yeah. Have to. And, uhā
- Yes. You don't know this, but you wereā We were texting back and forth
and you were like, "Hey, it's running 10 minutes late,
itās running 15 minutes late." Did you ever see the 1991 hit movie Hook starring Robin Williams? - Absolutely I have. Yeah.
- Yeah. Soā Basically, the Peter Pan storyā - well they know, okay.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I kept telling Estee, Iām like,
"Hey, can you push me a little bit later?" likeā - Wait, I was running late?
- You were running late. But you were living your life. Andā - No, thatās not fair though.
- Yeah, wait, wait, wait. - Hang on, let me get to the good part.
- No, I feel bad. Okay, get to the good part. Okay. Okay. So I go, āHe's going to comeā
and thenā It was like, out of a movie. Uh... where like, Liz is like uh,
"Last comic of the night," And I was, "Is, isā Is he gonna make it?" And then youā
You run out of a rainy night, in New York City,
you run into The Olive Tree Cafe, and you're wearing like, this, uh, like, trench coat. - Trench coat.
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You come running in and you kind of like, tousled your hair
and you're like, "I'mā Iām so sorry, man. I'm late." And then Iā I literally for a moment I'm like,
"Dad came to the baseball game." Remember in the beginning of Hook? - Yes.
- He doesnāt show up... - ā¦and like, this is his moment. Yeah.
- Yes. Yes. - I threw my cell phone out the window,
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - And was like, āHasan needs me."
- Yeah, yeah. And then I went on to have like,
a mediocre set ācause we were still building it. My favorite thing about that was that I think I had a, a feeling that after you did it, you were going to do fantastic,
which you did. And I was reallyā I was really proud of you
and it was really amazing to watch. But I also knew that people
were going to send you alcohol. - Oh, yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I don't drink. You don't drink. - I don't drink, no.
- And I don't drink notā because I'm an alcoholic. And so I was, like,
"He's going to only get alcohol." So I called the front desk and
I was, "Do you have like a fruit basket?" And they were like, yes.
I was, like, "Send it up." - Yes.
- Because everyone else is going to send a bottle of scotch
and be like, "Good work." - You did it, yeah.
- You did it, now... begin drinking. And I devoured that fruit basket. There were so many bananas
and apples so thank you for that... - There were bananas and apples?
- Yeah. Oh, thatās great. Because
sometimes it's too much melon. - Yeah.
- Yeah. Yeah. Or sometimes they give you
a pineapple but they don't give you anything to deal with it. You know, I find with the cups that you
get in an average New York City, they call them delis, but theyāre
just bodegas with food out exposed. And when you get a cup, a, fruit, - A cup fruit.
- A cup fruit, uh... It's normally all melon,
all cantaloupe, one piece of pineapple,
one sliver of strawberry... - And thereāll be like a grape.
- A grape! - Theyāll do a grape.
- Right at the top, a grape, - to cheat you, to tease you. Uh, tell us a little bit more about
the special and specifically why you chose to work with kids. Okay. So, um, I wanted to do a
comedy special that wasn't stand up. Uh, why? I don't know. It's, uh, itās one of my strengths,
stand up, but I decided to deviate from it. And, I wanted to do, uh, something kind of like I grew up on, which was like, uh, Sesame Street and 3-2-1 Contact. - Yes.
- And Free To Be... You and Me. - Did you ever see Free To Be... You and Me?
- No. It was, like, an album and
then it was a TV special. And... did anyone here ever see
Free To Be... You and Me? Wow, okay. - No, a couple people said yes.
- A couple people said yes? Okay. So it was just like,
there was no through line and it was just songs,
a lot of them sung by adults being like, "It's hard to be a dad." - And so I wantedā
- This is in the late ā80s, early ā90s? This was in the late ā70s and therefore
I still got to see it around ā86. Got it, and they would play it
on like PBS or something that? - Yeah.
- Got it. The way, like, Three's Company
still played when I was a kid, even though itād gone off
the air a decade before. - Right.
- So, I wanted to do something where kids were just kind of like,
hanging out and like, talking with adults, ācause that's what
TV was when I was a kid. It wasn't the, uh, dog detectives
or whatever that is. - Right, right.
- Um, and... I also have never really hung out
with 8 to 13 year olds since I was, like, 8 to 13. I didn't really want to do anything
about my childhood necessarily. - Um, I wanted to talk to kids in 2019.
- Yeah. And then I was writing sketches and songs
for them that were based on my childhood, and I said, well you're going to do whatever
Iā you know, youāre gonna sing the song I wrote. - Uh huh.
- Uh, but it was like any actor, I was like, "You'll sing this song
and if you relate to it, you relate to it." And I thought that kids in 2019
would be extremely different than kids in 1989. Well, who do you think has it
harder? Because you hear that take, āThis generation, they're soft.ā
There's that sort ofā¦ - They're soft?
- Yeah. What are you talking about? The, like, the kids from
this sort of eraā you haven't heard this take? I've heard, oh, like, oh,
millennials you mean? Yeah, millennials and Gen Z... Oh right? āCause they get
a participation trophy. - Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah. Oh, oh how terrible. - Right.
- As you know, they, they crownā as you well know, they crown
a prom king back in the day. - Right.
- Is there anything lamer than that? - Thatās true.
- A participation trophy is just a nice banner. For some reason we would declare
someone royalty in the middle of like a dry-humping convention
we were having. We go, āYouā the most popular
kid alreadyā are the king. And he'd be, "Thank you."
That was a soft generation. Um, noā these kids are,
I would say, and I'm no sociologist. - You know that.
- Sure. But Iād say kids are, uh, these kids are remarkably like, uh, moral and, uh, they're very considerate of othersā feelings... without it being, like,
enforced that they should be. It seems internalized. Whereas I felt when I was a kid,
it was something I had to actively remember. Oh, that you have a
conscience or you're likeā¦ Yeah, just be, like, "Oh, no. Don't push." - You know, like...
- Oh, right, right. They really had a sense of, like, uh, they really had empathy for each other. And they could really self-soothe, you know? I'd be like, āYour sketch is cut.ā And they'd be, "Ah, okay... ...well, if itās better for the
show, thatās fine.ā You know? - In real time?
- Yeah. - Thatās incredible.
- And they had kind of a general, like, um... yeah, they had a general moral compass and Iām not, I don't know all of their religious backgrounds, but some of them seem to have
kind of like a secular, just moral compass. Whereas when I was a kid, it was like, "You'll go to Hell if you do that." So I'd be, well, I'm not going
to do that ācause I'll go to Hell. But I would maybe like to do that. So I'd like to steal and do all these things. But, I won't just because of this fire penalty. Yeah, and they just had that naturally? They just seemed to naturally know
that you shouldn't upset people and cause crime. - Thatās incredible.
- Yeah. They were very considerate of each other. Did you ever ask them about
the afterlife or like, Heaven or Hell? And were they just, āI've come
to terms with not knowing.ā Like, were they that sort of just stoically... No, well it's interesting. Uh, one young man towards
the end of the specialā¦ I interviewed them about their biggest fearsā - Yes.
- And those would become half hour discussions, - M-hm.
- Uh, just about, um, also anxiety for the future, what they had. And one young man towards
the end said, he said, "I worry about my friends and family dying." And I said, āDo you do
anything to comfort yourself?ā And he said, "Well, I know
that, uh, even if they're not here, they'll always be with me in my heart." - And I was like... ahhhhh.
- Whoa. Whereas, when I was a kid,
they were like, "Grandpa's up there.ā - Right, right, right, right.
- You'll see him in 80 years." And I'm like, "You're sure he is?" And they were like, "Yeah,
he lives on a cloud now. Put on a suit. We're going to
the worst thing you've ever been through." These are questions from the audience.
You mind if I ask you some of these? These were submitted before. - Oh yeah. Okay. Absolutely.
- Yeah, and theyāre here tonight. Uh, Maddy, are you here? Maddyās here. - Hi, Maddy.
- Maddy wrote, "John, this July I saw you in New York
carrying Petunia like a heavy sack while looking very concerned.
Why were you carrying her like that?" You saw that this July? I didnāt realize that it was you,
and I thought that it was a man who had stolen a dog.
You were like thisā Because I was like that. - With her arms, like this here.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you were looking around a lot,
and I didn't know it was you. It was like, "Oh no, that's definitely his dog.
That's the only dog I recognize other than mine." Yeah. So, uh, my dog during the
summer in New York City likes to pull me for as many miles as she can. And then she decides that she's tired
because she's a bulldog and she can't breathe. So she lays down. She can. She lays down on the ground
like a frog, and then I normally pick her up and I go like,
"Come on, let's go." And if I drag.. If you drag a dog on the street... And by the way, you can drag a bulldog
for as long as you want. Okay. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. - You're allowed to do that? You can doā
- No, these things are made of stone and they're like... - They know what they're doingā
- Okay. And she knows. So I'll just be like,
"Come on." And people are like, "Are you John Mulaney? You monster." So, she probably pulled meā¦ Uh, for a while, she was taking
me towards like, those weird art galleries in Chelsea like, near the river.
And I was like, "Oh Petunia, come on." You were going 11th Avenue.
You're going far away. - Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, oh donāt do that. Because I'd go, "Hey, let's cut west today."
And sheāllā I'll throw her off the scent of what she likes, and she goes,
"This is a nice area." She'd pull me for hours. So I'd pick her up and carry her rather
than drag her, because when I drag her, which by the way is fine, uh,
people would be like, "Why are you hurting Petunia?" And I'd be like,
"She's hurting me." So then I carry her right? So now how do you carry her?
Okay, she's hot, right? July in New York. Okay, so if I put her over my shoulder,
she's then just breathing into my ear. Like, āHehhhhh.ā Some nights on the street...
Some nights on the quiet streets in, like, the East Village we'll
be walking and it'll be reallyā you know, itāll be like a quiet night. And we'll be walking behind
someone for a little while. And gradually Petunia will just
gain on them and be like, āHehhhhh.ā And you see these people slowly be like, "Is there a monster behind me?" Do they do the check? - They have to checkā
- Uh, yeah, then they turn around and they laugh. - Oh, boy.
- Because it's a piglet gargoyle. This is from Easha. Is Easha here? E-A-S-H-A. - Oh, hi, Easha. How are you?
How do I pronounce that? Is it...? Easha. But you hit it with the A after the E. Yeah, the A is, like, silent I guess. Oh, that's wild. Okay. This is from Easha. "What is the worst Christmas
present you've gotten? Oh. Oh, okay. Um, my grandmother, uh, who's alive, um, I don't know why... that's not... That's not the only thing about her. - Uh-huh.
- Uh, wonderful woman. Lived a full life. Anyway, she's alive. - Anyway.
- Okay. So, um, she gave us all socks
one year and um, that was... They were not, like, nice socks. They were like... You know you, like, you just get,
like, black socks for like aā¦ - Oh, the CVS socks. Kind of like those?
- Yeah, yeah. - Yeah.
- The way like, when like, you get a suit for a costume and they
staple the socks to it and you're like, āAll right.ā - I know what youāre talking about. Yeah.
- So, uh, so we were like, "This is weird." We were like, "This is a bad... This is weird." Black dress socks. We're talking
about the gold toe on the heel? Yeah. Just like, you know, just right next
to the like, reading glasses you get at Duane Reade. Like just socks. - I know exactly what you're talking about.
- And we were all looking at them like, "This is so weird." And maybe, "I hope she's okay." You know? And then we all kind of, I don't know,
threw them away or something. - And then sheā
- Not that day. You didn't do it that day? Uh, I think we did probably in the
paper... In the huge paper. - They were socks.
- Oh my God. - She lives in Boston. We're in Chicago.
- Uh huh. She's never... Ifā¦ Worst case scenario,
we'd run out and get identical ones. And then she called up later that day
and said, "Merry Christmas," as you do, and we said,
"Merry Christmas." And she said, "Did you find the money in the socks?" And we were like, "What's wrong with you?" Were you like, were you like, "How much?" Yeah. We were... Yeah, then we had to
be like, "Yes," and then had to temper like, "How much was it and how
much should we be thanking her?" It was like, "Yes, we found it. It was generous?" But that was not the worst gift.
But I think the, uh, the duplicitousness of it, if I may make up a word, was what wasā¦ - stands out in my memory.
- Got it. Did you ever find out how much it was? - It was $20.
- Really? Okay. All right, this game is going to be really fun.
We've never done this on Deep Cuts. Um, this game is called Truth or Text. So basically, I'm going to ask you a question. - It's a tough one.
- Okay. And based on this, you can either
choose to answer the question or you can avoid
answering if you let me text anyone in your
phone anything I want. Soā Wait. Does that premise make sense? No, that's a really good game.
Wait. That's a really good game. - It's Truth or Dare, butā
- I'm trying to think what the question would be that would make me ratherā That would force your hand. ...that I would rather go,
āText anyone in my phone anything you want.ā - Okay.
- Uh, butā ...surely you've thought of some. Okay. All right. You're on a sinking ship with Lorne Michaelsā Okay, you can textā For real? Okay. So you, for real, what do you do? Youāre serious. Unlock the passcode and
I will legitimately text anyoneā āUnlock the passcode.ā My face will do it. - All right.
- Okay. - All right. You do that.
- Yes. And then I get a text
anybody on the phone. Do you go through
other things on the phone? - No, no, no, no.
- Okay. I'll do contacts first. I'm not
going to look through text messages. - Okay.
- Okay. All right. Here we go. - And any... All right, you know?
- Yeah, I know. - Like if anything weird happens, donāt do it.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're enough of a good guy, right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay.
- Okay, here we go. You got some good ones, man. Who are you interested in? - Oh. Hannibal B.
- Iām not going to do Hannibal. No, no. I like that it's still saved as Hannibal B. Yeah. Hannibal B (Chicago comic). That's weird. - What are you in the... You're only in the Cs?
- I'm only in the Cs. I got to... Here we go. - We're going to go with the big one.
- Ooh. - Can I?
- [Clears throat] - I picked Dad.
- Okay. - No, no, no. It'sā
- Because I wanted high... I wanted high stakes. - No. Yeah, you're a good man. Soā
- No, no, no. Now I feel bad. - No, no, no, you know what?
- I feel bad. I feel bad. No, no, no, don't. Don't. Don't. You know, I'm just thinking
through the amount of... the amount of follow
through I'll have to do. - Youāve met my dad, too.
- Yes, I have. Yeah. - Yes, I have.
- Yes, you have, yeah. Well we got to D, and from A to D I was like, "This is really good." Okay. Pete Davidson has six numbers by the way.
That's insane. And none of them are the current one. Okay. Oh, you can seeāyouāre gonna see
the last message from him. Okay, all right. Send message. As if it would be scandalous. It's from my dad, like... Okay. - All right.
- What? Okay. āDo you have a minuteāā Oh my God. ā...to talk about anti-vaxx movement?ā āI've just learned a lot about itāā ā...and it seems like
something you'd be into.ā Now you recall that your
sister works at his law firm? Correct. Not anymore. She left. She left. Ah. I wonder ifāno. WhatāNo.
I was just going to think for a second. What if he was like, "I haven't
told anyone, but I am anti-vaxx."? John. Yeah? Can I just say this to you as a friend? - What?
- Totally, like, jokes aside. - What?
- You got to text your dad back. - Why?
- He's shooting, he's shooting- - Oh.
- He put upā - He put up threeā He put up four jumpers.
- Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Oh yeah. "Hi. Greatly
enjoyed the Conan interview." - Pass him the ball back.
- Aww. Okay. Yeah, I should have texted him. I mean, this is going to...
This is going to force his hand. And now I have to... Okay. Do I have to wait to
tell him what happened? - What this is? Yes.
- Okay, great. Great. So, your special is a
variety show that involves music, - children, comedy, everything.
- Yeah. And it's called
John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch. Yes. I actually did a crossover
video with a bunch of desi teens. Yes. It was Hasan Minhaj
and the Tupperware Teens. Basically just brown children who grew
up taking Tupperware to school for lunch, and then we just talked about, like, the pain
and angst that they had to deal withā Yeah. ... and they're here with us tonight. Everyone put your hands together.
Guys, come on up on stage. Guysā this is John Mulaney, you guys. - Hi, how are you?
- Hi! - Good.
- Oh my gosh. Good, nice, nice.
Oh, thank you very much. So, these guys had a
bunch of questions for you. Okay. And, uh, they wrote them down. - They'd like to ask you some questions.
- Yeah, yeah, go ahead. - So Abeer, why don't you askā yeah.
- Hi, Abeer! Hi. My name is Abeer Khan. I am 13 and I'm from
Yonkers, New York. All right. Yeah. Nice.
Very nice. Very nice. First question. At what age did you realize your head
was always going to be too big for your body? Preschool? So, I was four years old. I have a school photo
where it's, like, just teetering. It's a tiny Lacoste shirt and
a neck and then this huge head. So, I was four years old. Oh wow. So my name is
Jena Adya Dookie and my question is, why do old, well, adults
always look so unhappy? - Yes, okay.
- Yeah. I don't know what it is, okay.
Adults... And I learned this... Did you go through your wedding
photos and notice a lot of people were like... - Yeah. Like you meanāYouāre talking aboutā
- Okay. Like ācause peopleā older, not older I mean even our ageā
resting face becomes not as likeā¦ you know, it's likeā¦ And so now at weddings, cause it
happens, it just gradually slacked. It's this, the thing where you're like your
face is like that, that's going to go away. So, it slackens. Now at weddings, if I think the photographer's
in range, the whole time I'll be like... And my wife's like,
"You look like a psychopath!" And I'll be like,
"But, the photos will turn out well!" Right. When you flip through and see all your friends,
in likeā squinting in the sun, just likeā¦ And they're... I know they had a good
time, but you know, there's no evidence. Hi, I'm Teji Yijayakumar. I'm 17,
and I'm from Yonkers, New York. My question was, what's something that
adults didn't warn you about getting older? Oh. Oh, uh, like constantly
being hotterā like body heat. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like this. Like ahhhhhhh... - That whatever.
- Yeah, temperature, temperature. Just general body temperature. Generalā body temp
fluctuations based on stress. Well, I'm Suhani Madan.
I'm 15. And myā Are you from Yonkers? No, I'm from Manhattan. - You're from Manhattan?
- Iām from here. Yeah. Yeah, you didn't say it
ācause you didn't want to rub it in. So my question is,
do you know Russell Peters? Um, I... A small smattering begins. - I've met Russell.
- Okay. - Uh, at The Cellar.
- Okay. - But do I know him?
- Yeah? - No!
- I mean, this is big for the desi teens. - I know, but do you know him?
- Yeah. Of course! Well then, be impressed with that!
I don't, I don'tā Although I've met him.
Does meeting mean you know someone? - I think so. That counts.
- By adult standards or children standards? - Okay, if we passed each other on the streetā
- Yeah. ...we'd be on...we'd say hello. - Hey.
- Hey. - Gotcha.
- Right? - Yeah!
- Okay. Yeah, I'm very close
with Russell Peters. Alright, so my name is Sahir Mir. Where are you from? What borough? I'm fromā actually from
Princeton, New Jersey. - Oh, okay.
- Iām not from here. And I'm 16 years old.
Uh, so my question is, uh, what are you going to do
when you're not funny anymore? No, no. This is a very good question. Wait. Being funny is not
like having an ACL that's notā¦ I think it goes in waves. You really think that, like, you got
12 good years in you, you know, likeā¦ - You mean I had or have?
- Yeah, yeah. - Like, it started with The New Kid,
- I don't know. - and letās see how long...
- I donātā¦ New in Town and... - you've got maybe a decade andā
- I like they said New Kidā - Yeah, sorry.
- just pushing them all together.
- Kid Gorgeous. Yeah, yeah.
- Thatās my own fault. - New Kid Gorgeous in Town.
- New Kid Gorgeous in Town. Um, Iā¦ so likeā¦ but don't you think there'll be a dip? I'm thinking like 50 to 60,
like, uh, not funny. 60ā¦ ...getting funny again. 75 to 90, I am going to be so funny. I feel everything
about me is going to click. - Everything will all click together.
- Yeah, it'll finally makes sense. Got it. But from 50 to 60,
what do comedians do? I'll try, I'll be on, like, whatever
the equivalent of The Good Wife is. - Sure. Recurring character.
- I'll be like... - "That's disgraceful!" you know?
- Right. And ah... And then, you know, I'll ride that out and
then I'll be a funny old man in a tuxedo. Got it. What would you do if you went bald? Oh, very slim chance of that. You know that for sure? Well, are you supposed to
go by your mother's father? You're supposed to
go by your grandfather. - Yeah.
- On your mom's side. - No one in my family lost their hair.
- Okay. So if I go bald,
I did something wrong. What do you mean if I lost my hair? Do you mean in terms of,
uh, coverage or just open-ended? Just open-ended. Okay. Here's what I would do. I would, in the beginning, go fullā¦ not hairpiece, not hair system. - Full toupee. Like fullā
- Oh, no! No, no, no - And I would see.
- You don't want the toupee. No. I know, but I would seeā - I would invite all of yous over to dinner.
- Sure. You, Hannibal B., everyone, - And I would just, I would see...
- Everyone? - if friends...yeah, yeah.
- Maybe Dad? Who knows. I want to, I would like to just
show up and see if friends justā and it would be kind of purple-ish. You know how they
can't match brown hair? Yeah, right. And I will just see if my friends say
anything and I'll do that for like a month. It would be aggressive, too.
Toupees are so aggressive. - A full toupee in this day and ageā
- Do you guys know what a toupee is? Yeah. Abeer, you know
what a toupee is, Abeer? Kinda, yeah. - What do you think it is?
- Wait, wait, wait. It's kind of? Or you do? Kind of. Okay. What do you think it is? Like, an old man wig? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They can sometimes
be as simple as like justā as simpleā it can sometimes be just thatā¦
they can sometimes fill in that part. But there are those,
uh, there are those few, who have decided to wear full wigs,
uh, that cover their entire head... ...in a hairstyle and
hair that is not their own. Uh, Phil Spector was one of these. He was a music producer
and he, uh, did many things, and now he's in prison. But he was veryā
he did a lot before that. Well, this story is actually,
it bridges us to our next game. So, you know, me and the Tupperware
Teens were children of immigrants. We grew up here. Our parents
got here around the ā80s, ā90s. So, a lot of our pop culture
references start there. So, in India, the number of American
pop culture references that you knowā¦ Yeah. Like, for example, for my father,
it's kind of, it's Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise, uh... ...and I think probably Tom Brokaw,
when he first got to the States. - Oh, interesting!
- You know what I mean? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- There's only five people... So, this game is called,
Why Are People Obsessed With This? Okay. Now the older I've gotten,
um, and the more I've assimilated, I've just started to ask people,
"What's the deal with this person?" And we all kind of
have these referencesā - And we want to ask you...
- Okay. ...so you can contextualize that for us. So, let's start this off. Bruce Springsteen. Okay. Explain it to me. Oh. Like why? Really? For real. For real.
I went to go see him on Broadway. Jon Stewart obsessed
with Bruce Springsteen. I remember seeing it on
Broadway and I was like, "What?" There's this guy with the raspy voice, "Man, we were just kids...ā ā...trying to get to the city.ā ā...We look past that bridge andā¦ā - ā...there was a sleepy town behind us.ā
- That generallyā - I go, "Why is this dude...?"
- Yeah. Because that
generation of Baby Boomers rebelled against their
parents and they played Frisbee and they thought that ended
the Vietnam war and it didn't. And then they likeā
their parents passed away and their brains broke and they became so
nostalgic for this fake nonsense. I'm notā - I like Bruce Springsteen.
- Is he a good artist? - I think he's a good artist.
- I donāt even know. Yeah, he's got great songs,
but his whole thing of like, "I got a ā52 Chevy."
Itās like, you never did! Right. Okay. Okay. Iām all Billy Joel, who is just like,
āHot dogs are fun!ā You know? And he's good? - Billy Joel?
- Billy Joelās great? Okay. Yeah. I'm more, if you were
to divide them into two camps, I'd be Billy Joel over
Bruce Springsteen. So, Bruce Springsteen is American
men who have never done manual labor, in their lives, turning that
song on and feeling that they have. Got it. Okay. Abeer, why don't you go?
Who do you got? Okay, I have Goldie Hawn. Goldie Hawn? Okay. Well, Goldie Hawn came on the
scene in a show called Laugh-In, which apparently was funny, and it was in like, the late ā60s
and she was in like, a bikini. And like, that was the show. Yeah. And people were like,
"This is groundbreaking!" But it was just very misogynistic. And they would have like, uh, like,
it was like, it was like hippies and stuff, and they'd have swirly colors. So, again, Baby Boomers,
they liked her a lot. And then, um,
and then, Goldie Hawn... How do you feel about Goldie Hawn? - I like her! Because...
- Okay. ...she's always been like,
"Hi!" You know? She's always been
here and that's fun. And, uh, she's married
to Kurt Russell, is that right? - Yeah.
- Yeah. Jena, you had one though, right? Jimmy Buffett. Good. Keep it. Don't correct there. You need not know.
I don't know. I don't know. Why are people
obsessed with Jimmy Buffett? I don't know. I donāt know. He has one song that those of us
who know who he is, know this song. He has full concerts, apparently,
where other songs are played. I don't understand it. I think it's like, for people
that like, like, barbecuing. And, yeah.
You needn't bother investigating. I have Richard Gere. Richard Gere? - Yes.
- Gere. Um, I don't know. Like, I was kind of young for that. He was in a movie
called American Gigolo. And I think he was the first... He, like, he would like,
squint and people liked that. Like, for me, like,
it was Pretty Woman. I remember being
a kid and they're like, "Hey, this is Richard Gere!" - And I go, "Okay."
- Yeah, yeah. But I didnātā I remember that too.
And I was like, āokay...ā you know? They're like, "Julia Roberts!" And
I was like, "I don't know who that is!" And they were like, "And Richard Gere!"
And I was like, "Again, I don't." Uh, I guess theyā by Hollywood
standards, he was āoff-beatā looking, which means he was
incredibly handsome. Gotcha. Teji, why don't you go. Um, I have Stevie Nicks. Stevie Nicks. Oh! Wellā - This is a big deal. For wellā
- This is a big deal? Well, I asked Stevie Nicks to be in my
children's special and, uh, she said no... and she was unavailable,
but also it was passed along to me that she didn't like the material. And I said, "Oh, that's okay.
You know, unavailable was fine." Stevie Nicks is like, if your mom
picked you up in the car and like, was like,
"Ugh." Like, "Another day." And then she'd turn on Stevie Nicks. She would then be
transported to a magical world where she was a sorceress of sorts. And so, to a lot of
our mothers roughlyā and a little younger than
meā mothersā generation. This was like, they
put on a song called like, āBella Donnaā and
they would go to another place and that's why she matters. Sahir, why don't you go? Yeah, I don't
understand Barbara Streisand. You don't understand
Barbara Streisand? Why did that
provoke such a response? - This is why we can't be open about it!
- I can't, - People are all like, āOh, Barbra Streisand.ā
- I canāt imagine a less... - Yeah.
- not less sympathetic person, but I can't imagine a
person who would elicit fewer āawwsā than Barbara Streisand. Yeah. Oh, Barbara Streisand, yeah, okay. Who is she? Why are
people obsessed with it? And why is us not
knowing about it a problem? So, like, tons of people were Jewish, but... ...like, no one had ever been
like, "I'm the star!" You know? And people were like, "Okay." And, uh, she was a good
singer, really young, I believe. And she was like, um, like 40 when she was 18. Is that fair? I think that's fair. And then she was, like, an icon. Like, I don't think there was ever a
time where she wasn't an icon. - Yeah.
- Yeah. So, she's been beloved sinceā I think like, when she
was like, like, she was in like, Funny Freckles or
something, I donāt even know. And she was like, people
were like, "That's a star." And she wasn't evenā
you know what they did to her? Is they pulled her out of
her own generation, too. So, they were like you're for old
people and for people your age. And so she's just been
pulled back and forth and she has a shopping
mall in her basement. That's not a lie. She has a
mall, butā that is a free to her. But she goes into the shops.
She lives in Malibu. That is a strange fact. John, do you
have any questions for them? What advice do you
have for a 37-year-old? Try not to act too young
ācause it's just weird. No offense! No offense! - No offense! I didnāt mean it like that.
- Maybe take the jacket off. - That um...
- There's no way we're going to top that. - The Tupperware Teens, everybody!
- Thank you, Tupperware Teens. You guys can head
back there. Thank you. One more time for Mr. John Mulaney! Thanks, everybody. John Mulaney &
The Sack Lunch Bunch comes out December 24th
only on Netflix! - Bye, buddy. Thank you.
- Thank you, man. Really, that was soā - I need to go call my dad.
- Really? Yeah, yeah.
"Try not to act too young because it's just weird" I felt that burn from the other side of my computer screen lol
Abeer is back at it again!
anyone know where john mulaney's shirt is from?
Holy shit