{"id":251494,"date":"2026-07-12T03:18:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/mick-jagger-reacts-to-john-mulaney-saying-he-was-not-nice-when-they-worked-together-at-snl\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T03:18:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:18:45","slug":"mick-jagger-reacts-to-john-mulaney-saying-he-was-not-nice-when-they-worked-together-at-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/mick-jagger-reacts-to-john-mulaney-saying-he-was-not-nice-when-they-worked-together-at-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Jagger Reacts to John Mulaney Saying He Was Not \u2018Nice\u2019 When They Worked Together at \u2018SNL\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/mick-jagger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mick Jagger<\/strong><\/a> reacted to comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/john-mulaney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>John Mulaney<\/strong><\/a> saying that the Rolling Stones frontman was not \u201cnice\u201d when they worked together on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people in show business only hang around with people in show business, because they\u2019ve got something in common, they can relate to each other, and you get disassociated from what people might call \u2018real life,\u2019\u201d Jagger, 82, admitted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/11\/magazine\/mick-jagger-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Times Magazine<\/em><\/a> in an interview published<\/p>\n<p>In a 2019 comedy special, Mulaney, 43, recounted his experience as an <em>SNL<\/em> writer pitching sketches to Jagger, who has been a frequent guest on the comedy show and is a close friend of producer <strong>Lorne Michaels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friends were all like, \u2018Is he nice?\u2019 No. Or maybe he is, for his version of life because he has a very different life,\u201d Mulaney said in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eWrKf5ik1i4&amp;t=4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Kid Gorgeous at Radio City<\/em><\/a> special. \u201cHe\u2019s played to stadiums of 20,000 people cheering for him like he\u2019s a god for 50 years. That must change you as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/john-mulaney-drags-rfk-jrs-marriage-to-cheryl-hines\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/john-mulaney-drags-rfk-jrs-marriage-to-cheryl-hines\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">John Mulaney Drags RFK Jr.&#8217;s Marriage to Cheryl Hines During Netflix Event<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tJohn Mulaney is adding a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. impression to his already impressive comedy repertoire. \u201cIf you don\u2019t know Bobby \u2014 and that\u2019s how I know him, as Bobby, that\u2019s how much he shouldn\u2019t be in the government. I know him. He\u2019s comedy adjacent,\u201d Mulaney, 43, said during his Netflix \u201cNight of Too Many [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mulaney admitted, \u201cIf you do that for 50 years, you\u2019re never again gonna be like, \u2018Um, does anyone have a laptop charger I could borrow?\u2019 You know that bulls*** way we all have to talk to get through life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jagger told the <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em> that he \u201cnever saw\u201d Mulaney\u2019s comedy special, though he agreed he had a different perspective than most people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, it\u2019s not normal,\u201d he said of his lavish lifestyle. \u201cIt is not like most people\u2019s lives. It does affect you. You can become disassociated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee said that he has tried to actively \u201cfight against\u201d becoming alienated from the public over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, you do fight against it. It\u2019s a conscious effort,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how he tries to stay in touch with people, Jagger explained, \u201cIt\u2019s quite easy, really. You go out and walk on the street on your own and do normal things, go and buy <em>The New York Times<\/em>. But, nevertheless, that\u2019s only temporary because psychologically your actual state of mind is permanently damaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4374592\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:68.714285714286%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4374592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"GettyImages-1351961152 Mick Jagger Reacts to John Mulaney Saying He Was Not Nice When They Worked Together at SNL\" width=\"1000\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1351961152-Mick-Jagger-Reacts-to-John-Mulaney-Saying-He-Was-Not-Nice-When-They-Worked-Together-at-SNL-e1783825047971.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Mick Jagger<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Ethan Miller\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYour late 20s and early 30s is a very tough time for people in this business because it\u2019s a big ego trip, and you have to have a huge ego to do this,\u201d the rocker went on. \u201cPeople that do this that don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jagger insisted that he\u2019d learned how to switch off his bombastic stage persona.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think it comes with age. You\u2019ve heard all these stories about method actors,\u201d he said. \u201cThey take it to the absolute extreme, so they\u2019re like the character all the time, and then after the movie\u2019s over, they\u2019re still in character. It takes a long time to slough off the character. So which character do you go back to? Is he always going to carry some of that character in his \u2018true\u2019 character, whatever that is?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cThis is the show business dichotomy and it\u2019s something you learn to live with, and you always hope that you\u2019re a so-called normal person underneath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jagger is still going strong as he enters his mid-80s, with the Rolling Stones having released their 25th studio album, <em>Foreign Tongues<\/em>, earlier this month. The star-studded record features the Stones collaborating with fellow rock god <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>, pop star <strong>Bruno Mars<\/strong> and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer <strong>Chad Smith<\/strong>, among many others.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/mick-jagger-reacts-to-john-mulaney-saying-he-is-not-nice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick Jagger reacted to comedian John Mulaney saying that the Rolling Stones frontman was not \u201cnice\u201d when they worked together on Saturday Night Live. \u201cA lot of people in show business only hang around with people in show business, because they\u2019ve got something in common, they can relate to each other, and you get disassociated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}