It’s memoir with a buoyant bite too as Mulaney tests the audience to see if they’re taking in the ramifications of his finely honed observations. Very funny, very telling.

A special that emphasizes just how measured and scrupulous a joke writer he is.

“Baby J” will charm new and old fans -- while never letting them lose sight of the flawed, fallible human being at its center.

The best comedy is a mirror held up to uncomfortable reality, and in Baby J John Mulaney holds up a mirror to addiction—the messiness, the imperfection, the failure and embarrassment, but also the liberation of survival.