Olivia Munn’s Mom Trolled John Mulaney With A Fake Thanksgiving Tradition

Olivia Munn, but the stand-up star’s domestic humor is nothing compared to the comedic lies of Ms. Kim, aka “June.”

Back in August, Mulaney arrived at his scheduled appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers particularly parasocial fans and haters objected to Mulaney reviving his whole “wife guy” routine and engaging in some playfully racial ribbing in front of Ms. Kim, that’s just because they didn’t understand the dynamics of Mulaney’s relationship with the grandmother of his children. If they did, they would have known that Mulaney has to poke some fun at Ms. Kim if he ever wants to get even with her for her constant comedic pranking that literally changed the life of Mulaney and Munn’s daughter.

Yesterday, Munn appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers where she revealed that her mother has been playing tricks on both her and her husband, even going so far as to accidentally convince the couple to give their daughter the middle name of “June,” an homage to a fake nickname that Ms. Kim made up for herself, presumably to mess with Mulaney. But Ms. Kim’s cutest prank came during Munn and Mulaney’s first holiday season as a family, when she tricked Mulaney into posing his newborn son with a turkey leg for what Mulaney now knows is not actually a Chinese-Vietnamese-Oklahoman Thanksgiving tradition.

“You Catch Me If You Can, Leo Dicaprio, Frank Abagnale Jr.? Like he just can’t stop lying?” Munn asked Meyers when trying to describe the beloved and comedic con-woman in her life. “That’s my mom. She just can’t help herself.”

Munn started off the Thanksgiving story that spawned the most adorably inexplicable baby picture in stand-up history with, “Malcolm was born the day before Thanksgiving, and my mom comes, and… First of all, she’s never met John by this point. So she arrives with a suitcase from Oklahoma, she came and she doesn’t even say ‘hi’ to John, she just unzips her suitcase and takes out frozen turkeys.”

“She’s like, ‘It’s from Oklahoma!'” Munn said of her mom’s explanation for her strange yet seasonal gifts for the new parents. “She thinks it’s so exciting that they’re from Oklahoma. They’re Butterball!”

Then, Ms. Kim finally spoke to her soon-to-be son-in-law, as she told Mulaney, “It’s so exciting, in my family, with all of our kids, it’s a tradition, we put a drumstick in their hand for their first Thanksgiving when they’re a baby.” Mulaney took the strange suggestion in stride, as Munn recalled, “John was like, ‘Oh that’s cool!' He says to me, ‘Hey, your mom’s going to do this thing,' and I was like, ‘That is not a tradition! What is she talking about?’”

“So I call my siblings, I was like, ‘Do we have any photos of this?’” Munn said of her investigation into what she suspected to be one of Ms. Kim's famous fibs. “They said, ‘No, because she’s lying! That’s not true!'”

But even though Munn knew her mom was playing a joke on her and her new family, Munn says that the truth didn’t stop her from playing along. “So, in this photo, John is holding Malcolm,” Munn explained of Thanksgiving pic. “My mom gets her turkey leg, she puts it there, he pats his head and goes, ‘Okay, a new tradition!’”