John Edmund Mulaney (born August 26, 1982) is an American stand-up
comedian, actor, writer and producer. He is best known for his work as
a writer on Saturday Night Live and as a stand-up comedian with
stand-up specials The Top Part, New in Town, The Comeback Kid, and Kid
Gorgeous, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Writing for a Variety Special in 2018. He was the creator and star of
the short-lived Fox sitcom Mulaney, a semi-autobiographical series
about his life. Mulaney also performed as a character called George
St. Geegland in a comedic duo with Nick Kroll, most recently in Oh,
Hello on Broadway from September 2016 through early 2017. He is also
known for his voice acting work as Andrew Glouberman in the Netflix
original animated show Big Mouth. Mulaney made his film debut in 2018,
voicing Peter Porker/Spider-Ham in the Academy Award-winning animated
feature film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.Mulaney was born in
Chicago, Illinois, the son of Ellen (née Stanton), a professor at
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and Charles "Chip"
Mulaney, Jr., an attorney and partner at Skadden Arps. His parents are
both of Irish Catholic descent. Mulaney's maternal great-grandfather
was George J. Bates, a Republican mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, who
also served as a congressman from that state. His maternal great-uncle
is William H. Bates, who also served as a U.S. congressman.
Coincidentally, Mulaney's grandmother, Carolyn Stanton, and Hilary
Meyersâ€"mother of Mulaney's future Saturday Night Live coworker Seth
Meyersâ€"performed together in a hospital benefit show in Marblehead,
Massachusetts, called Pills A-Poppin' directed by Tommy Tune, then
19.Mulaney's parents attended Georgetown University and Yale Law
School. They were at Yale at the same time as future president Bill
Clinton; Mulaney met Clinton in 1992. Growing up, Mulaney was an altar
boy. He is the third of five children. He has two brothers, one of
whom is deceased, and two sisters.
comedian, actor, writer and producer. He is best known for his work as
a writer on Saturday Night Live and as a stand-up comedian with
stand-up specials The Top Part, New in Town, The Comeback Kid, and Kid
Gorgeous, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Writing for a Variety Special in 2018. He was the creator and star of
the short-lived Fox sitcom Mulaney, a semi-autobiographical series
about his life. Mulaney also performed as a character called George
St. Geegland in a comedic duo with Nick Kroll, most recently in Oh,
Hello on Broadway from September 2016 through early 2017. He is also
known for his voice acting work as Andrew Glouberman in the Netflix
original animated show Big Mouth. Mulaney made his film debut in 2018,
voicing Peter Porker/Spider-Ham in the Academy Award-winning animated
feature film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.Mulaney was born in
Chicago, Illinois, the son of Ellen (née Stanton), a professor at
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and Charles "Chip"
Mulaney, Jr., an attorney and partner at Skadden Arps. His parents are
both of Irish Catholic descent. Mulaney's maternal great-grandfather
was George J. Bates, a Republican mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, who
also served as a congressman from that state. His maternal great-uncle
is William H. Bates, who also served as a U.S. congressman.
Coincidentally, Mulaney's grandmother, Carolyn Stanton, and Hilary
Meyersâ€"mother of Mulaney's future Saturday Night Live coworker Seth
Meyersâ€"performed together in a hospital benefit show in Marblehead,
Massachusetts, called Pills A-Poppin' directed by Tommy Tune, then
19.Mulaney's parents attended Georgetown University and Yale Law
School. They were at Yale at the same time as future president Bill
Clinton; Mulaney met Clinton in 1992. Growing up, Mulaney was an altar
boy. He is the third of five children. He has two brothers, one of
whom is deceased, and two sisters.
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