{"id":2376618,"date":"2026-04-16T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2376618"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:01:13","slug":"john-mulaney-shares-heartwarming-before-and-after-photos-with-son-malcolm-showing-how-much-the-4-year-old-has-grown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-mulaney-shares-heartwarming-before-and-after-photos-with-son-malcolm-showing-how-much-the-4-year-old-has-grown\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mulaney Shares Heartwarming Before and After Photos with Son Malcolm, Showing How Much the 4-Year-Old Has Grown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">John Mulaney is reflecting on how much his son has grown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The comedian and dad of two shared a side-by-side photo of him and his son Malcolm at Red Rocks Amphitheater years apart on Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mulaney shares his son with wife Olivia Munn<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/john-mulaney-8776655\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:John Mulaney;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;John Mulaney&quot;}\" class=\"link \">John Mulaney<\/a> is reflecting on how much his son has grown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, April 16, the comedian and dad of two, 43, shared side-by-side photos of himself and his son <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/parents\/olivia-munn-john-mulaney-introduce-baby-boy-malcolm-hiep-mulaney-instagram\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Malcolm;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Malcolm&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Malcolm<\/a>, 4, on Instagram, showing just how much his son has grown since he was a baby. In the first snap, the father-son pair stood together on stage at Red Rocks Amphitheater wearing matching jackets. The next photo showed the duo a few years ago, with the proud dad holding his newborn up in the air on stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Now and then. Back at Red Rocks. Straight to London tonight,&#8221; Mulaney wrote in the caption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mulaney also shares <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/john-mulaney-shares-snaps-with-daughter-mei-at-a-yoko-ono-exhibit-11833728\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:daughter M\u00e9i;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;daughter M\u00e9i&quot;}\" class=\"link \">daughter M\u00e9i<\/a> with his actress wife, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/olivia-munn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Olivia Munn,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Olivia Munn,&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Olivia Munn,<\/a> 45. While the couple mostly keep their kids away from the spotlight, they love to share updates on their little ones during interviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Back in March, the actor joined <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kBFtJ_w-Trc?si=FYt2AJQc6BRUN9qw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Late Show with Stephen Colbert;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/em><\/a> and recalled a difficult interaction with his son during his recent tour stop in Memphis. While the father-son pair were touring Graceland, the home of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/elvis-presley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Elvis Presley,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Elvis Presley,&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Elvis Presley,<\/a> Mulaney told host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/stephen-colbert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Stephen Colbert;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Stephen Colbert&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Stephen Colbert<\/a> that he had to explain to his son why he wouldn&#8217;t be able to see the late singer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;So, we&#8217;re in the jungle room, &#8230; and we&#8217;re looking around, and Malcolm goes, &#8216;Dad, can I meet Elvis now?&#8217; &#8221; Mulaney recalled. &#8220;It had never come up while listening to &#8216;Hound Dog.&#8217; You don&#8217;t go, &#8216;You know, son, this guy&#8217;s dead, right? You want to know how he died?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;So, I go, &#8216;No, you can&#8217;t.&#8217; And, he goes, &#8216;Please, I want to.&#8217; I go, &#8216;Oh, no. It&#8217;s not like a permission thing.&#8217; Then I realized all his grandparents are alive and he&#8217;s never had a goldfish,&#8221; he continued, realizing at that moment that his son wasn&#8217;t familiar with the concept of death. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t know. Like, he doesn&#8217;t know. And he&#8217;s about to find out in the jungle room at Graceland that everybody dies. And so how did you convey this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>John Mulaney and Olivia Munn with their son Malcolm.<br \/>Credit: Olivia Munn\/Instagram<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He went on to share how he explained to Malcolm why he couldn&#8217;t meet Presley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I said, &#8216;Elvis is in heaven now.&#8217; And he said, &#8216;Why?&#8217; &#8221; Mulaney recalled of their conversation in Graceland. &#8220;And I said, &#8220;Uh, well, sometimes when people are in their early 40s, and they have a job and schedule a lot like daddy. Uh, and some of the same issues as daddy. They go to the bathroom and they go to heaven.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"John Mulaney with his son Malcom on his shoulders.Credit: Olivia Munn\/ Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/G17pwg7uXFbcCOyFclO8NA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTk2MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/0fd61dde6ab5ef2d3c8828b6e68aa982\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>John Mulaney with his son Malcom on his shoulders.<br \/>Credit: Olivia Munn\/ Instagram<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;PEOPLE'&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong>PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During his Netflix show, the comedian poked fun at what it&#8217;s like raising a toddler. Mulaney compared the experience to working on\u00a0<em>The Ellen DeGeneres Show,\u00a0<\/em>almost five years after the show ended following\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/ellen-degeneres-talk-show-scandal-timeline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:toxic workplace allegations made against;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;toxic workplace allegations made against&quot;}\" class=\"link \">toxic workplace allegations made against<\/a>\u00a0host\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/ellen-degeneres\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ellen DeGeneres;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ellen DeGeneres&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ellen DeGeneres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;You know what having a 3-year-old is like?\u201d he asked viewers. \u201cHaving a 3-year-old is what I imagine working on Ellen [DeGeneres\u2019] show was like. Because people come over and they\u2019re like, \u2018How is it?\u2019 And you\u2019re, like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s fine. You know, we have fun. There\u2019s games.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We have dancing, you know. So if he starts dancing, you dance. But if he stops dancing,\u201d he continued, changing to a more serious tone before saying, &#8220;You f&#8212;&#8212; stop dancing right away.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/john-mulaney-shares-sweet-side-by-side-comparison-of-him-and-his-son-11951971\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;People&quot;}\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW John Mulaney is reflecting on how much his son has grown The comedian and dad of two shared a side-by-side photo of him and his son Malcolm at Red Rocks Amphitheater years apart on Instagram Mulaney shares his son with wife Olivia Munn John Mulaney is reflecting on how much his son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2376619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25615,348510,314708,462580,462581,22653],"class_list":["post-2376618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-elvis-presley","tag-john-mulaney","tag-olivia-munn","tag-red-rocks-amphitheater","tag-son-malcolm","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/John-Mulaney-Shares-Heartwarming-Before-and-After-Photos-with-Son.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376620,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376618\/revisions\/2376620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2376619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}