Watch John Mulaney’s Odd ‘Late Night’ Appearance that Sparked Worry Before Rehab

On Monday, comedian, frequent SNL host, and Late Night with Seth Meyer‘s head writer John Mulaney checked into rehab at a facility in Pennsylvania for alcohol and cocaine addiction. But a clip from Late Night that aired November 24th privately sparked worry among his friends and co-workers before they became aware of his addiction problems.

The New York Post reports: Fears for comic John Mulaney’s sobriety and mental health began after he made a bizarre appearance on Seth Meyers’ show, wearing dark glasses and calling Prince Harry a “dumb ginger” and Meghan Markle a “silly goose.”

In the Late Night clip hosts a fake Royal Watch: News from the Real-Life ‘Crown’ segment and jokes that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were annoyed by COVID because it took all the media attention away from their Megxit “stunt.”

Mulaney — wearing a rumpled, oversized coat and sunglasses, both gifts from Julian Casablancas of the Strokes, who performed on the Saturday Night Live Mulaney hosted in October — said Harry was “the real dunce of this fairytale … You dumb ginger, don’t leave your title just because you don’t like your 94-year-old grandma.”

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“That’s the definition of something you wait out, gangsta. I am pretty sure father time is going to sort out the case of the very old bummer woman who had 30 months to live,” Mulaney said before adding, “Ahh, too mean.”

three weeks ago I felt there was something seriously *off* with John Mulaney's appearance on Seth Meyers.https://t.co/Y73LEY9l2W

— undersecretary of ineffable yikes (@EastVillChris) December 21, 2020

At the end of Mulaney’s rambling speech, punctuated by long pauses, Meyers — who had earlier asked him to “start again” and inexplicably asks him to spell the word “sheriff” — said, “I love having you on here, but in the future, if you just want to talk things like this out, a phone call might be better … We will see what of this we can use, but it might be online only.”

Mulaney adds, The next Royal Watch will be a little more focused … Thank you Seth, and as a student reporter once wrote of me, ‘Thank you for the laughs, albeit virtual.’”

Watch the clip below.