Exactly one year ago, Olivia Munn revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023, and undergone four surgeries in just 10 months. The 44-year-old star explained that she was diagnosed two months after a “normal mammogram,” and a biopsy found that she had “an aggressive, fast-moving cancer” in both breasts, which led to her having a double mastectomy.
And while none of this is even remotely funny, John made the arguably controversial decision to use it for material in his new Netflix comedy special, Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney — specifically how Olivia’s cancer treatment has impacted her.
“And the effect of cancer treatment on her brain has made her, at times, so dumb,” John then quipped. “There’s a thing called cancer brain: not brain cancer. Cancer brain. It’s a sweet, wonderful dumbness that happens after all that challenging treatment.”
“I’ll give you an example,” John said. “We went to a fertility doctor, we were going to make embryos. This was after Olivia had a double mastectomy, but before her hysterectomy and ovariectomy. We were going to make embryos for what eventually became our daughter this fall. We were standing in the doctor’s office, and this conversation happened word for word. Doctor: ‘The great news is nine eggs survived the thaw.’ Olivia: ‘So now, uhm, we uh, combine it with his, uhm, cum?’”
“And to be funny,” John continued. “Olivia went: ‘This guy,’” as he explained that she intended to gesture that John was crazy by pointing at her head and making a circling motion with her finger, but instead, she apparently made an incredibly crude gesture used to represent oral sex. After recounting the mortifying mix-up, John told the crowd: “Then we said nothing and walked out of the store, as if to say: ‘You think that’s dumb, this guy eats pussy!'”
Olivia has not publicly acknowledged John’s jokes about her on his live show, but let me know your thoughts on them in the comments below!