John Mulaney

John Mulaney strikes me as the rare comedian whose material reads as well as it plays. His years writing for Saturday Night Live, co-creating Stefon with Bill Hader, gave him an architect's sense of structure, and you can feel it in his stand-up: every sentence is load-bearing. I love that his Emmys honor his writing rather than any mugging for the camera; it confirms my sense that he is a craftsman first. There is something disarming about a man in a tailored suit delivering chaos with perfect diction. For me, he represents comedy as literature: precise, rereadable, and quietly devastating.

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Name (English)

John Mulaney

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・ムレイニー

Reading

じょん・むれいにー

Born

August 26, 1982 (age 44)

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

writer / actor / television actor / screenwriter / stand-up comedian

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

University

Georgetown University

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
• 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special
• 2009 Peabody Awards
• 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk Series
• 2010 Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk Series

• Official sitehttps://www.johnmulaney.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/johnmulaney/
• Xhttps://x.com/mulaney
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Mulaney
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6249723

Tags

• Illinois
• writer
• actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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