Name: John Mulaney Explains What “Baby J” Means
Uploaded: 2023-04-27T00:32:02.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'John Mulaney Explains What “Baby J” Means' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'John Mulaney Explains What “Baby J” Means' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-27. Transcript available.

What does Baby J mean?
Because weren't you calling your tour From Scratch?
Yeah.
The tour I was just on was called From Scratch.
Just because I started calling these shows I did.
Two months out of rehab, I started doing these shows at City Winery in New York.
And I just called it From Scratch.
And there might have been...
I was trying to say, like, all of this is new and please come to the shows,
but it's going to be rusty.
And it's going to be all worked out and messy, et cetera.
And then I just kept calling the tour From Scratch.
I never loved the name, but I didn't want to think of a new one.
There was too much going on.
There was too much going on in early sobriety.
And I didn't, you know, I just kept going with it.
But the special is called Baby J, which is something I refer to myself as in
the special.
Because the people like when 40-year-old men call themselves Baby J.
People find that really cute and like that a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you think, is it like about being like a late bloomer?
What is it kind of in relation to?
I don't know.
I just refer to myself as it at one point in the special and it makes me laugh
a lot.
Oh, nice.
But a part of it is trying to get back to that before time.
Like something, a lot of the tour I just did, we used my first grade photo as
the like tour art.
And I mean, it just was, it was like you and I were talking about it, but
trying to get back to that age where there was just like electricity and things
were really exciting.
Yeah.
And something, you know, something went off track.
Some, some things got darker.
And now I'm, now I was sober and so much of my life had changed.
And I was out on the road and I was just, I was like, I liked seeing that
poster of myself.
I liked seeing that photo of me in first grade outside the venue.
Like it just put me like, okay, we're trying to get, we're trying to get back
to that.
We're getting back on track.
Something started chasing us after that time.
Something started chasing us.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was a thought I had in rehab of like, I don't mean like I heard, well, I
sort of heard a voice, but it said, we've been after you since you were a
little kid.
And I felt like something, yeah, something, something's been, things have,
things have had, there's been many great moments, but something, something's
been trying.
To get your attention or to get you?
To get me.
Wow.
You think it's like a disease or something?
I don't know.
Just some.
We've been after you.
We've been after you since you were a kid.
We, I didn't care for the we.
Listen, I didn't like hearing voices in detox.
I didn't like grinding my teeth.
I cracked a molar.
It was a whole crazy, but yeah, I didn't, I didn't care for the voice, but if I'm
going to hear a voice,
I don't like the we of it.
Yeah.
That's a lot of people.
Yeah.
That means, yeah, there's a van now, you know?
There's a van.
That implies bats.
Yeah.
Guys driving around with bats.
Hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another and you can watch this
one.
You can watch this one.
Different options, different choices.
Some guy just brings you one option, not this guy.
Two options.
Watch one.
This one or this one.
Thank you.