Cum Town

Cum Town is a comedy podcast founded in 2016 and hosted by New York City-based comedians Nick Mullen, Stavros Halkias and Adam Friedland.[1] As of August 2019, Cum Town was the sixth highest earning podcast on Patreon.[2]

Cum Town
Presentation
Hosted byNick Mullen, Stavros Halkias and Adam Friedland
GenreBlack comedy, blue humor, surreal humor
LanguageEnglish
UpdatesTwice weekly
Length60–90 minutes
Publication
Original releaseMay 11, 2016 (May 11, 2016) – present
Websitewww.cum.town (Store)

It has featured guests including David Cross,[3] Bam Margera, Bonnie McFarlane, Jim Norton, Kurt Metzger, Brandon Wardell, and Dasha Nekrasova (who is a former fiancée of one of the co-hosts, Adam Friedland).[4][5][6] Cum Town received coverage after Saturday Night Live pulled Shane Gillis from its cast for making controversial jokes and remarks on his own podcast.[7][8] Gillis had been a guest on Cum Town and is a friend of the hosts.

Format

Cum Town episodes usually range between 60 and 90 minutes in length. The format is almost entirely unplanned, with the hosts' aimless conversation giving way to improvised comedic characters and sketches. Many riffs come from crude puns and rhymes—for example, "Louis SeemsGay"[9] instead of Louis C.K.—and usually involve sexually explicit scenarios as well as ethnic and racial stereotypes.

Nick Mullen in 2014

Mullen is the primary host and producer of the show, with Halkias as co-host.[10] Friedland, who appears least frequently of the three, first appeared in the show's second episode and often serves as the butt of Mullen and Halkias' jokes and insults.

The first 24 episodes began with the theme song from 1990s sitcom Home Improvement.

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the show was conducted via Zoom; episodes were broadcast live via YouTube.

Mullen does many celebrity impressions, including Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, E. Jean Carroll, Dwayne Johnson, Joe Biden, Patrick Warburton, Rip Torn, Jon Hamm, and Homer Simpson, with many episodes of the show featuring him trying to perfect a new impression on-air.

Dirtbag left association

Cum Town is often associated with the dirtbag left, though it is not focused on politics.[11][12] In a February 2020 article, New York Times described Cum Town (by allusion, citing its "unprintable name") as "bards of the new American left" alongside podcasts Chapo Trap House and Red Scare.[13] Several Chapo hosts, including Amber A'Lee Frost, Will Menaker, and Felix Biederman, have appeared on Cum Town; Mullen, Halkias, and Friedland have individually made multiple appearances on Chapo.

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. In May 2017, Friedland tweeted that "Cum town is not a socialist podcast it's not a fascist podcast it's a podcast about being gay with your dad."[14]

References
  1. "Alex Jones falls for 'Cum Town' host's fake abortion article". The Daily Dot. June 7, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  2. "Top 10 Highest Earning Podcasts". Podcast.co. April 9, 2018. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  3. "Ep. 11 - David Cross - comedy, mr show, hbo, david cross - Cum Town Podcast". ShoutEngine. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  4. McNamara, Sylvie (October 29, 2018). "Red Scare's Real Offense Is Nihilism". Podcast Review.
  5. Malone, Noreen. "Red Scare Leans Into Nothing". The Cut.
  6. Friedland, Adam [@AdamFriedland] (November 20, 2017). "Hi this is Adams girlfriend @nobody_stop_me my account has been unjustly suspended and I really need it back to express myself and if I don't Im going to break up with Adam and ruin his life @jack" (Tweet). Archived from the original on June 23, 2020. Retrieved June 23, 2020 – via Twitter.
  7. Makalintal, Bettina (September 13, 2019). "Who the Hell Is Shane Gillis, the Newest Hire on 'Saturday Night Live'?". Vice. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  8. Price, Joe (September 14, 2019). "Andrew Yang Responds to New 'SNL' Cast Member Shane Gillis Calling Him a 'Jew C***k'". Complex. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  9. "Ep. 118 - Louis SeemsGay from Cum Town". stitcher.com. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
  10. "Nick Mullen". The Stand Restaurant & Comedy Club. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
  11. North, Anna (October 24, 2017). "Listen to what socialist women are saying about misogyny on the left". Vox. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  12. Spies, Michelle (September 25, 2019). "I Made the Internet Vote to Determine the Worst Fan Base. Here's What I Learned". Vulture. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  13. Bowles, Nellie (February 29, 2020). "The Pied Pipers of the Dirtbag Left Want to Lead Everyone to Bernie Sanders". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
  14. Friedland, Adam [@AdamFriedland] (May 5, 2017). "Cum town is not a socialist podcast it's not a fascist podcast it's a podcast about being gay with your dad" (Tweet). Archived from the original on June 23, 2020. Retrieved June 23, 2020 – via Twitter.
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