On this week’s episode of “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” comedian John Mulaney spoke about marrying Vietnamese-American actress Olivia Munn and becoming part of her family.
Mulaney and Munn married in July in a ceremony officiated by “Law & Order” actor Sam Waterson. The couple welcomed their first child, Malcolm Hiep, in 2021. Munn calls Hiep her “Golden Ox Baby,” a reference to the fact that he was born in the Year of the Ox on the lunar calendar.
Mann’s mother, Kim, sat in the audience during Mulaney’s “Late Night” interview and talked about how old she was when she emigrated from Vietnam to Oklahoma City. Mulaney told Myers about his new family: “They’re the best.”
“I’m so glad she’s here,” Mulaney said of her mother-in-law. “One of them comes with me everywhere.”
Mulaney praised how open-minded his wife’s Vietnamese family is, while noting how closed-minded his own family is, which Myers described as “probably the most white and Caucasian.”
“So we’re very sensitive about money, about health, about everything. Almost everything is taboo,” Mulaney says. “The Luongs tell you everything as soon as they meet.” The comedian joked that Mann’s family openly asks him questions like, “How much money do you have?” and “Why are you so skinny?”
He also performed an impersonation, poking fun at the family’s very distinct Oklahoma Vietnamese accent.
“I will, but only because I have to. And there are probably at most seven people in the world who would be offended by this accent,” he said.
Marrying into a Vietnamese family has opened up a “new world,” Ms. Mullaney said, including Asian grocery stores like H Mart and Little Saigon in Orange County, Calif. “The produce at the Asian markets looks like avatar fruit. It’s all new fruit,” Ms. Mullaney said of the produce at the Asian markets.
The young family made headlines in March this year when Mann was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent treatment that included a double mastectomy and hysterectomy.
