John Mulaney sort of talks about babies on the premiere of Baby Talk
The comedy network Jash just launched a new web series called Baby Talk, hosted by comedian and new father Dan Levy. The program, ostensibly devoted to the pangs and pleasures of parenting, is formatted like a low-budget late-night talk show, with DJ Jensen Karp serving as the wisecracking, undercutting Paul Shaffer to Levy’s David Letterman. The lineup of guests for the premiere episode includes comedian John Mulaney, NBA star Blake Griffin, Chappelle’s Show co-creator Neal Brennan, and an actual child: an affable-enough 9-year-old name Jayden. Because both Mulaney and Brennan are childless, however, much of the episode’s “baby talk” is confined to Levy’s opening monologue, in which he discusses why his infant son had to wear a $3,000 helmet. This leads to a bit in which the child’s helmet-protected head is Photoshopped onto various unlikely bodies.
