John Mulaney Compares Being Toddler Mum or dad to Engaged on ‘Ellen Degeneres Present’

John Mulaney is getting actual about what it is like elevating a toddler.

Throughout his Netflix present Everyone’s Dwell With John Mulaney, the comic, 42, poked enjoyable at what it is like elevating a toddler. Mulaney, who’s a proud dad of two, in contrast the expertise to engaged on The Ellen DeGeneres Present, virtually 5 years after the present ended following poisonous office allegations made in opposition to host Ellen DeGeneres.

“You understand what having a 3-year-old is like?” he requested viewers. “Having a 3-year-old is what I think about engaged on Ellen [DeGeneres’] present was like. As a result of individuals come over they usually’re like, ‘How is it?’ And also you’re, like, ‘Oh, it’s wonderful. You understand, now we have enjoyable. There’s video games.’”

“We’ve dancing, you recognize. So if he begins dancing, you dance. But when he stops dancing,” he continued, altering to a extra severe tone earlier than saying, “You f—— cease dancing immediately.’”

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Mulaney and his spouse, actress Olivia Munn, share two kids. The couple, who had been first noticed collectively in June 2021, welcomed their son Malcolm Hiệp, 3, in November 2021. In July 2024, they tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at a pal’s home in New York, with Sam Waterston marrying the pair and simply Malcolm and one different witness in attendance. Two months later, the couple welcomed their second baby collectively, daughter Méi June, 7 months.

Throughout an look on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! in March, Mulaney was requested about his two children. As he and Jimmy Kimmel, 57, talked about his daughter, the late-night host requested him if he named his daughter after two back-to-back months to be humorous.

“No, I am knowledgeable comic, so if I used to be going for humorous it may be a tougher snigger than Might subsequent to June,” Mulaney joked. “Olivia’s mother’s identify is Jung, so we had been doing an Americanized tribute to her by naming her June.”

“Initially, our daughter was going to be named June for some time. After which abruptly I went June Mulaney seems like John Mulaney mentioned bizarre, so we mentioned how about Méi — which implies plum in Chinese language — and so she’s Méi June,” he defined.

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In March 2024, Munn introduced that she had been identified with breast most cancers a 12 months prior. The next month, she opened as much as PEOPLE about how the scary information affected her parenting and relationship together with her husband.

“It will’ve felt like climbing an iceberg with out him,” mentioned Munn, who endured 4 surgical procedures over 10 months.

She referred to as Mulaney an enormous assist and “an extremely hands-on father,” recalling how he would go “to and from the hospital—taking Malcolm to the park, placing him to nap, driving to Cedars-Sinai, hanging out with me, going residence, placing Malcolm to mattress, coming again to me and he did all of it fortunately.”