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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. If you ever caught
- 0:03Speaker 1: a comedy set by John mulaney, be one of the
- 0:06Speaker 1: comedy specials, or at a club, one thing is instantly apparent.
- 0:09Speaker 1: He's likely dressed up a lot more than anybody else
- 0:12Speaker 1: in the room. John whars a signature suit and tie
- 0:13Speaker 1: wherever he goes to do a gig, a look that
- 0:16Speaker 1: was common in the early days of stand up, but
- 0:17Speaker 1: now is an absolute rarity. And John explained why he
- 0:20Speaker 1: adopted the formal wear on CBS Sunday Morning. It all
- 0:23Speaker 1: started when he headlined a show around twenty ten. He
- 0:25Speaker 1: realized every comic opening up for him and everyone in
- 0:27Speaker 1: the crowd was wearing similar checkered shirts. He says, I
- 0:30Speaker 1: remember thinking, I'm twenty seven. There's no reason I should
- 0:32Speaker 1: have the mic, except that in this con job of entertainment,
- 0:35Speaker 1: I'm declaring that I'm the headliner. I thought I'd like
- 0:38Speaker 1: to look like the headliner, like the entertainer of the night.
- 0:40Speaker 1: As cilly and as corny as it may seem, I'm
- 0:42Speaker 1: gonna wear a suit because I'm the entertainer and I
- 0:44Speaker 1: have to take charge of that room. In reality, nothing
- 0:46Speaker 1: I'm saying is important, but I have to act like
- 0:48Speaker 1: it is, as Jean Mulaney on why he always wears
- 0:52Speaker 1: a suit during stand up His Netflix show Everybody's Live
- 0:55Speaker 1: will be live like it suggests for the next twelve weeks.
- 0:58Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.