His writing credits include Comedy Knockout on TruTV (premiered 2016), Make Me Understand with Jim Norton (2016 IFC television pilot), and 2017's Problematic with Moshe Kasher ( Comedy Central). ĭuring the late 2010s, he was a recurring guest on the Real Ass Podcast, Race Wars (hosted by Kurt Metzger and Sherrod Smalls), and Legion of Skanks.
Prior to Cum Town, he was a finalist for New York’s Funniest Stand-Up at the 2015 New York Comedy Festival and has had multiple TV and radio appearances. In a 2015 interview with Ari Shaffir, he spoke about living under the poverty line for a number of years, stating that he reported less than $7000 in income in 2014. Before moving to Brooklyn, he lived in rented rooms in Chinatown, including an eight by six foot illegal single room occupancy in a commercial property. In the mid-2010s, Mullen moved to New York City. The blog featured satirical articles with titles like "Read This If Your Child Was Eaten By A Pelican", "Wape Jokes Awen’t Funny, And Neither Is My Speech Impediment", and "I’m Using Food Stamps To Pay For My Son’s Sex Reassignment Surgery." He also had a prank call podcast called Help Me, I'm Old. įrom 2013 to 2015, he wrote a popular ironic parody blog under the name Nicole Mullen on Thought Catalog. Other festivals include the 2014 Bentzen Ball in Washington, D.C. That same year, he was named one of the New Faces Unrepped by Montreal's Just for Laughs festival. In 2012, he performed at SXSW as part of the Made in Austin and Weekend Spotlight comedy showcases. In 2010, he was named "Best of Fest" at the Laugh Detroit festival. Ī nationally touring stand-up, he was an opener for acts including Dana Gould, Jim Norton, Patrice O'Neal, and Hannibal Burress. During his early twenties, he was based out of Austin, Texas, (and briefly Los Angeles) and was a two-time finalist at the annual Funniest Person in Austin contest (20). Many of his comedic anecdotes draw from a string of service industry jobs he held at this time. Originally from the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area, he began performing as a teenager, often at Wiseacres Comedy Club in Virginia. Active since 2005, much of his comedy is ironic, observational and self-deprecating, and often focuses on internet culture.
Nick Mullen (born December 13, 1988) is a stand-up comedian, comedy writer, podcaster, and actor based in Brooklyn. On Apple Podcasts, its the 55th most popular comedy podcast (it is unranked overall). On Spotify, it is ranked the 35th most popular comedy podcast and 138th most popular in the United States regardless of genre. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the show was conducted via Zoom episodes were broadcast live via YouTube.Īs of July 2021, Cum Town was the ninth most popular podcast on Patreon and is the tenth most popular creator on the platform overall with more than 20,000 paying members, the podcast has nearly $90,000 in monthly earnings. Subscribers who contribute at least $5 per month via Patreon gain access to additional weekly premium bonus episodes.
Weekly free episodes of the show are available via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Audible, among other services. The first 24 episodes began with the theme song from 1990s sitcom Home Improvement. Jean Carroll, Dwayne Johnson, Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo, Patrick Warburton, Rip Torn, Gene Hackman, Jon Hamm, Norm MacDonald, Joe List, Mark Normand, Ice-T and Homer Simpson, with some episodes of the show featuring him trying to perfect a new impression on-air. Mullen does many celebrity impressions, including Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, E. Conversations generally center on the hosts' personal lives, the news, the worlds of stand-up comedy and social media, and pop culture history.
and usually involve sexually explicit scenarios as well as ethnic and racial stereotypes.
Many of the show's riffs come from crude puns and rhymes- for example, "Louis SeemsGay" instead of Louis C.K. Mullen is the primary host and producer of the show Halkias is a co-host and was later joined by Friedland, a frequent guest who first appeared in the show's second episode and often serves as the butt of Mullen's and Halkias's jokes and insults. Cum Town episodes usually range between 60 and 90 minutes in length.