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. In the United States, the podcast is the 23rd most popular comedy podcast and 76th most popular on Spotify On Apple Podcasts, it is the 17th most popular comedy podcast in the United States, and the 126th overall. Of note, it was the number one podcast on the platform for most of 20. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the show was conducted via Zoom episodes were broadcast live via YouTube.Īs of June 2022, Cum Town was the tenth most popular podcast on Patreon and is the 12th most popular creator on the platform overall with more than 20,000 paying members, the podcast has around $100,000 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, Tucker Carlson, 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. Many of the show's riffs come from crude puns and rhymes-for example, "Louis SeemsGay" instead of Louis C.K.-and usually involve sexually explicit scenarios as well as ethnic and racial stereotypes. Friedland, began as 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. Mullen is the primary host and producer of the show Halkias and Friedland are co-hosts. Cum Town episodes is typically 60 minutes in length and is improvised.