Esquire USA - 10.2019

a huge fan!” she tells Mulaney. The maître d’ looks at her, then at the clean-cut, unassum- ing guy with the enormous backpack w ...

aesthetics of drag queens and the implicit fun- niness (to him) of “midgets”; over-the-top impressions of black characters (and ...

IN JANUARY, Mulaney appeared with Pete Davidson on SNL’s Weekend Update to make fun of Clint Eastwood’s The Mule. Early in the b ...

spent the entirety of his teens and the early part of his twenties as an addict, spiraling out of control. He began drinking at ...

Martin’s cerebral-absurdist series, Import- ant Things. In 2008, SNL hired Mulaney as a writer, a job he loved—“writing for Fred ...

Jacket by Bottega Veneta; T-shirt by Calvin Klein Underwear; jeans by Polo Ralph Lauren; sunglasses by Ray-Ban. ...

76 October 2019_Esquire ILLUSTRATIONS BY LÆMEUR 25-PART The ESQUIRE G UIDE to FUNNY 2019 ...

October 2019_Esquire 77 EVERYONE’S A COMEDIAN! Don’t be fooled by the guy on this issue’s cover. Comedy has never been home to s ...

No 11 NEW-ISH SHOWS WE LIKE • HBO A Black Lady Sketch Show, The Righteous Gemstones, Random Acts of Flyness • No 10 WHAT DO (^) ...

79 Hey, Bill, Us Again. A Few More Q’s: Are there subjects that are too taboo for comedy? I mean, everyone and everything is fai ...

80 COMEDY = TRAGEDY + TIME WHAT’S SO FUNNY ABOUT PUBERTY? PEN15 EDITION The Authorities: Maya Erskine (right) and Anna Konkle (l ...

81 “We talk a lot about our iden- tities, and we talk a lot about working to clear misconceptions about those identities. But it ...

WE ASKED NINE STYLISH INDIVIDUALS WITH NO TIES TO BIG FASHION TO SHOW UP TO OUR STUDIO IN THEIR BEST FALL FITS. THE ONLY DIRECTI ...

Jason K USIMO Content creator, 27 Coat, jacket, trousers, and hat by F. E. Castleberry; sweater by Unis; shoes by Clarks; watch ...

“A daily uniform is a failure. It’s cowardly. To dress in an expressive way, obviously, is risky. But you must fail occasionally ...

85 “People think wearing a lot of black can be very minimal, but it actually allows a more focused play on details. Mixing diffe ...

“This year, I de- cided to narrow my entire ward- robe to one small closet. Funnily enough, the things I kept were mostly the th ...

“Sometimes you can go shop- ping with the wrong people. At this point, I have to always trust myself. I’ve been doing this for a ...

“I never throw away T-shirts, because they have so many memories. They’re a history of my life. I keep them not to wear them but ...

PATR ICK McCoy Jr. Funeral director, 32 “Adding a patch makes something that much more your own. You have a story to tell for pe ...