This explains a lot

John Mulaney:

I actually quit drinking a few months ago. I got to a point where I was blacking out every time I drank, and I went to talk to my doctor about it, and he said that it wasn't that I was drinking too much; it's just that, after you have a couple of major blackouts, your brain will black out easier and easier automatically, so I could like go to a bar and have one or two beers, and my brain would be like, 'OK, I see where this is headed. Why don't we just power down now, and then get restarted sometime tomorrow morning?'