John Mulaney Explained Why a Recent Father-Son Outing Didn't Go as Planned

John Mulaney stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live ahead of his "comically unconventional" stint of live Netflix specials, John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In LA, which will air on the streamer for 11 days. And while he was telling Kimmel about some of the out-there guests he'll be featuring, he recalled an anecdote about a recent outing with his son that didn't exactly go as planned.

True to the name, the specials are part of the annual Netflix is a Joke festival, which veritably hundreds on comedians will be in town for. But in addition to comedic royalty such as Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman, Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman, and so on; Mulaney is also having some lesser known names on the show.

He'll also be speaking with a seismologist, a hypnotherapist, and a helicopter journalist, among others, as well as Dr. Emily Lindsey, assistant curator and excavation site director at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles, which has been open to the public since 1977.

"I took my son to the La Brea Tar Pits recently," the 41-year-old interjected, as Kimmel read off some of the names. "And he doesn't want to see a bunch of skeletons."

"No one does," quipped Kimmel in return.

"What I thought it was going to be is so embarrassing, in retrospect," Mulaney continued. "I thought it was gonna be like big animals covered in tar. And it was gonna be like, you know, an animated movie to him and it was just these dirty bones. And the smell of tar everywhere."

Though, to be fair, the exhibit would be a bit grim if it were actually a bunch of dying animals covered in tar. Mulaney shares two-year-old son Malcolm with his girlfriend, actress Olivia Munn. Toddlers are fickle creatures, and apparently "a bunch of dirty bones" were not enough to entertain the child or his father.

In either case, John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In LA premieres on Friday, May 3 at 7 p.m. PT, and will run through May 12. You can watch the trailer below.