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Mick Jagger Didn’t Think John Mulaney’s ‘SNL’ Jokes Were Funny

Mick Jagger wasn’t the least bit impressed with all of John Mulaney’s Emmy and Peabody awards. Back when the celebrated stand-up comic was a writer on Saturday Night Live, the Rolling Stones frontman had no problem telling Mulaney that his punchlines sucked. On an episode of Hot Ones, Mulaney remembered one of the jokes he wrote for Jagger’s opening monologue: “Hey everyone, I'm Mick Jagger so mothers, lock up your daughters. Or should I say, daughters, lock up your mothers.”

Jagger listened and gave his blunt assessment, “No, I don’t like that.”

The ‘Roast of John Cleese’ Was a Total Disaster

Taking a well-deserved break from manufacturing nonexistent controversies and raging against the amorphous specter of “cancel culture,” Monty Python legend John Cleese recently proved that he doesn’t just dish out hacky put-downs, he can take them as well. The recently-aired The Roast of John Cleese found the former Fawlty Towers star being relentlessly ribbed by a dais full of his close friends a bunch of random Australian comedians you’ve probably never heard of. 

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