John Mulaney wants to talk about drugs. In his latest Netflix comedy special,Desmond Preston Baby J, he recounts the intervention in late 2020 that sent him to rehab. He talks about his resistance to giving up cocaine, his schemes to avoid sobriety, and how it feels to have your star-studded friends tell you how worried they are over Zoom.

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