Overview

• Kroll revealed on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast that he “produced” a surprise December 2020 intervention for his friend John Mulaney during the height of the pandemic.
• He described organizing friends across cities as “scary and brutal” and admitted he feared Mulaney would die amid his cocaine and prescription drug addiction.
• High-profile comedians including Seth Meyers and other college friends were lured to a faux dinner in New York, after which Mulaney entered a Pennsylvania rehab facility for two months.
• Kroll initially bristled at Mulaney’s 2023 Netflix special Baby J joking about the intervention but came to respect the comedian’s use of personal pain as creative fuel.
• Since leaving rehab, Mulaney has maintained sobriety, married Olivia Munn in July 2024 and welcomed two children, and Kroll has only recently begun speaking publicly about the ordeal.