Cum Town

Cum Town was a comedy podcast that was hosted by New York City-based comedians Nick Mullen, Stavros Halkias, and Adam Friedland, and produced between 2016 and 2022.

Cum Town episodes were typically 60 minutes long and consisted of improvised comedy blended with casual unscripted conversation.

Featured guests include Tim Dillon, David Cross,[7] Bam Margera, Dan Soder, Bonnie McFarlane, Jim Norton, Kurt Metzger, Brandon Wardell, and Dasha Nekrasova.

[2][3] Conversations generally centered on the hosts' personal lives, the news, the worlds of stand-up comedy and social media, and pop culture history.

Mullen does many celebrity impressions, including Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Tucker Carlson, Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, E. Jean Carroll, Dwayne Johnson, Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo, Patrick Warburton, Rip Torn, Gene Hackman, Jon Hamm, Norm MacDonald, Joe List, Mark Normand, Jason Statham, Ice-T, Dave Portnoy,[10] James Gandolfini, Sean Connery, Regis Philbin and Homer Simpson,[11] with some episodes of the show featuring him trying to perfect a new impression on-air.

[19][20] A nationally touring stand-up, Mullen earned recognition in the early 2010s;[21][22][23] he was a two-time finalist for the Funniest Person in Austin contest (2010 and 2011),[21][24][22][25] was selected as part of Montreal's Just for Laughs festival New Faces program in 2012,[24][26] and was a finalist for New York's Funniest Stand-Up at the 2015 New York Comedy Festival.

[50][51][52] A February 2020 New York Times article described Cum Town (by allusion, citing its "unprintable name") as "bards of the new American left", alongside podcasts Chapo Trap House and Red Scare.

Though the hosts occasionally discuss their responses to current events and politics—with all three expressing support for 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders—they deny any specific political agenda.

"[55] In July 2021, the hosts disagreed with Andrew Marantz's characterization of the podcast as a "flagship product of the dirtbag left" in a New Yorker article.

[2][3][50] Critical bloggers have argued that the hosts' use of slurs and edgy jokes, particularly Mullen's, perpetuates harassment and continually crosses the line into actual hatred and contempt.

[52] In 2020, the podcast's subreddit (which was not moderated or endorsed by the hosts) was removed from Reddit due to the platform's new policies on hate speech.

Nick Mullen in 2014
Stavros Halkias in 2021
Adam Friedland in 2023