What did John Mulaney say? Mick Jagger reacts to comedian’s 2019 criticism of working with singer on SNL 

According to recent news reports, Mick Jagger reacts to John Mulaney's criticism of him of working with the singer on the sets of Saturday Night Live. Mulaney had mentioned that Mick Jagger was not nice when they worked together in Saturday Night Live.

During an interview with the New York Times Magazine, Jagger gave insights on the issue.

"A lot of people in show business only hang around with people in show business, because they’ve got something in common, they can relate to each other, and you get disassociated from what people might call ‘real life,’” said Jagger during the interview.

In a comedy special from 2019, Mulaney, 43, shared his experiences as a writer for Saturday Night Live, discussing how he pitched sketches to Jagger, who has made several guest appearances on the show and is a close associate of producer Lorne Michaels.

“My friends kept asking, ‘Is he a nice guy?’ No. Or perhaps he is, in his own way, because his life is vastly different,” Mulaney remarked in his Kid Gorgeous at Radio City performance. “He’s entertained crowds of 20,000 people who adore him like a deity for 50 years. That has to influence your personality.”

Mulaney acknowledged, “After doing that for half a century, you'll no longer be in a position to say, ‘Um, could someone lend me a laptop charger?’ You know that frustrating manner we all resort to in order to navigate through life?”

John Mulaney acknowledged, “After doing that for half a century, you'll no longer be in a position to say, ‘Um, could someone lend me a laptop charger?’ You know that frustrating manner we all resort to in order to navigate through life?”

Regarding his opulent lifestyle, he remarked, "Obviously, it's not normal." It is not like the life of most people. You are impacted by it. You may lose your affiliation.

When asked how he makes an effort to maintain relationships, Jagger said, "It's quite easy, really.You go buy the New York Times, go on a solo stroll on the street, and engage in everyday activities. However, your actual state of mind is permanently affected psychologically, so that is only transitory."

“Your late 20s and early 30s is a very tough time for people in this business because it’s a big ego trip, and you have to have a huge ego to do this,” he continued. “People that do this that don’t have huge egos have huge problems because they have to manufacture a completely different [personality]. I have a friend whose standing joke is that I behave at a dinner party like I behave onstage.”

About John Mulaney

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John Mulaney is an American writer, actor, and stand-up comedian. He began his career as a writer for Saturday Night Live (1975) in 2008. He co-created the recurrent character of Stefon with Bill Hader and made sporadic appearances on the show's Weekend Update segments.

John Mulaney was born in Chicago, Illinois. After leaving Saturday Night Live, Mulaney worked on a number of different projects. He created and starred in the comedy Mulaney (2014) for Fox and voiced Spider-Ham/Peter Porker in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), which was his first feature picture role.

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