'THEY TRICKED ME' 😂 JOHN MULANEY #shorts

John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City
2018

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[aspiringjoker]

The best part is "and then I didn't!" 💀

[JadedJamie]

I don't know what's funnier: that the former drug addict still considers an education to be the worst financial decision of his life or that realistically it actually is worse

[Hard-R-Energy]

"I spent $120, 000 to study a language I already spoke."

[ePaie]

As a past English Major - I felt that "and then I didn't" to my very core.

[jmattones]

In High School, this was my conversation with my "Guidance" Counselor,

GC: What do you want to do when you grow up so we can determine your future development track?
Me: I either want to be in the Airforce, or design Corvettes.
GC: either way you have to go to college, but in order to design Corvettes you need to go to school for Architecture.
Me: OK
(Hold your comments until you've read the rest)
So I first went to a 2 year state school, and I got my first architectural degree. After I graduated there, I went to Norwich University, The Military College of Vermont, where I majored in Architecture and was in the Airforce. My time there taught me 2 things, 1. I didn't need a college education to enlist in the Airforce, and 2. I needed to have gone to an Industrial Design school to design Corvettes NOT architectural school. I kind of want to sue my former Guidance counselor or the high-school. I ended up hurting my back while taking the advice of my CO because I was told to get a gym membership to stay in shape before some training I was scheduled to do, and that injury at the gym ended my Airforce career. Because it wasn't during official USAF training, I don't recieve any benefits regardless of the fact I was contracted and enlisted during that time. Now in my 40's I've stuck with a career I've never been passionate about, but I'm good at it. I still owe $25k in student loans, and I have no desire to go back to college for another degree, more debt and to start over. Thanks John Jay High-school, you sucked then and you suck now.

[viceynm]

The last part, " I paid 120, 000 dollars for someone to tell me to go read Jane Austen and then I didn't." 😂

[ZombieDish]

This is still my favorite bit of his. Glad he got the help that he needed though.

[Kushiel]

“worst financial decision I ever made.”

Years later, after buying a rolex and immediately selling it for half as a way to circumvent his own rules to make it harder to buy drugs, that financial loss was still 5.8% the loss he took to not read Jane Austen.

[ZombieDish]

I lived like a god damned Ninja Turtle. I didnt drink water the entire time.

[Sewblon]

I am not sure that John Mullaney would have gotten to write for Saturday Night Live if he didn't go to college.

[saronzewdie]

Sounds like it was worth it. His English is great.

[boyo]

tbh I think every college student can relate to "and then I didn't"

[BENYJOSE]

Seeing that both of his parents were lawyers and went to his Alma Mater (Georgetown University), I can't help but think that he could have had adequate counsel to make that decision...

And since he kick-started his career there after meeting Nick Kroll and Mike Birbiglia there, I can't help but wonder if he meant any of this...

[jonathanwindish]

dude i love his voice he’s the definition of the best comedian and voice actor i know ❤

[gocryptoyourself]

Honestly he has a point: when i was 17 my parents tried to transfer some land into my name (their version of the getting a teenager a car, you cant crash a piece of land though) and they legally couldnt. Well, actually they could, but they would have had to pay for a lawyer, for me, to say "yes, this is in his best interest". Now its a little different, because there is a yearly cost to land (in my case only 200 ish a year). However - he was allowed to sign a contract at the same age, for 120k. To put in perspective thats 600 YEARS of my land taxes. If it was a car loan it would probably be illegal.

[Charlezard.]

It thought him better understanding of literature and how to be a better writer, which helped his career as a tv writer and a comedian.

[milesman_]

I can’t unhear Jack Horner And spider ham 💀

[robertfeldman]

In college he joined comedy groups, met Nick Kroll, and built a professional network that helped him grow. It's an outdated gatekeeper system that made sense for an unfair society before the internet

[adamk]

Mulaney seems to be doing better than most people in the world—who knows how that degree and the people he met there helped establish a wildly successful career in comedy.

[busylivingnotdying]

Well, at least it wasn't army recruiters (Jane Austen won't kill you, so thank god for small mercies)