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John Mulaney: Baby J
Directed by
Alex Timbers
R
2023
80m
Comedy
,
Documentary
7.5
86%
75%
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A chaotic intervention. An action packed stay in rehab. After a weird couple of years, John Mulaney comes out swinging in his return to the stage.
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John Mulaney: Baby J Ratings & Reviews
Ryezoo
February 5, 2025
Solid hour tackling all the demons he was battling.
Variety
Alison Herman
Performances like "Baby J" are the only insight into his mindset we're likely to get for the foreseeable future, even as they pointedly remind us they're just that: a performance.
The New Yorker
Carrie Battan
A special that emphasizes just how measured and scrupulous a joke writer he is.
The Atlantic
David Sims
There's undoubtedly a lot more weight on Mulaney's shoulders, and more retrospection in his storytelling. But few comedians are currently working with his kind of natural talent.
Vanity Fair
Hillary Busis
Baby J is as controlled as Mulaney says he wasn't during the lowest points of his addiction. Its confession is confident, calculated, creating distance between performer and audience even as it invites us to listen. In some ways, that's a blessing.
Vogue
Emma Specter
Baby J isn't Mulaney at his zingy, a-million-jokes-per-minute, New in Town best, but it represents refreshing new ground for the comedian, who has always been more complex than his audience's "clean-cut sweetie" read on him might have suggested.
The Daily Beast
Matt Wilstein
The laughs may come ever-so-slightly fewer and farther between... but Mulaney's willingness to peel back the curtain on his inner turmoil in a way he's never done before adds a new depth that, by the end, only makes the special funnier.
Sioux City Journal
Bruce R. Miller
While "Baby J's" honesty is admirable, we can only hope it's lasting. Even in this dark world, John Mulaney's too good to lose.
New York Times
Jason Zinoman
Mulaney's comedy... has become spikier, pricklier, sometimes slower while remaining as funny as ever, like he's a pitcher who learned to mix up speeds.
Decider
Sean L. McCarthy
Mulaney's magic act remains using turns of phrase as his sleight of hand. He's just now a much creepier magician.
NPR
Linda Holmes
What works so well in Baby J is what works in a lot of good comedy: that combination of recognition and bafflement when you look at something that's true but seems impossible.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Kathryn VanArendonk
A comedy special that cannot help but rebuild every single wall it wants to break down.
Washington Post
Lili Loofbourow
The show in its current iteration is extremely funny, but traces remain of a version that dug a little deeper.
Polygon
Joshua Rivera
The special is vintage Mulaney: casually rehearsed, self-deprecating, sharp stuff that uses sobriety's distance to laugh at the darkness of addiction.
Paste Magazine
Michelle Cohn
After a while, it almost feels like a case of punching down. Even though the John Mulaney onstage is healthy and happy, that doesn't mean the John Mulaney of the past deserves such contempt.
indieWire
Proma Khosla
"Baby J" will charm new and old fans -- while never letting them lose sight of the flawed, fallible human being at its center.
Slate
Imogen West-Knights
It's funny. Mulaney has very much still got it.
The Mary Sue
Madeline Carpou
After finishing the special and marinating on all of this, I myself am still a little unsure of where I stand. But I must say, I've never seen him more relaxed and centered on stage.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
I didn't find him particularly funny or that his anti-drug message was completely genuine, but I dug the comedian's well-tailored red suit he wore on stage.
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