Cum Town
| Cum Town | |
|---|---|
| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Nick Mullen, Stavros Halkias, Adam Friedland |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Updates | Twice weekly |
| Length | 60–90 minutes |
| Production | |
| No. of episodes | 250 (as of December 27, 2018) |
| Publication | |
| Original release | May 11, 2016 – present |
| Website | shoutengine |
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Cum Town is a weekly comedy audio podcast created in May 2016 and hosted by New York City based comedians Nick Mullen, Stavros Halkias, and Adam Friedland. The podcast has become known for its provocative and raunchy humor.[1]
Background and format
The three hosts first met through the Washington, D.C. stand-up comedy circuit. In the early-to-mid 2010s, they each migrated to New York City, which is where most episodes are recorded.
The first episode of Cum Town was released on May 11, 2016.[2] Since then, a new episode has been released to the public every Thursday. An episode is usually between 60 and 90 minutes. With the exception of set breaks every twenty minutes to advertise for sponsors, each episode is largely structureless.[3] Typically, the content within an episode will include a combination of improvisational comedy skits, humorous personal stories, and opinions on various topics ranging from American politics to the entertainment industry. Several notable people have appeared as guests, including David Cross, Jim Norton, Brandon Wardell, Dasha Nekrasova, and Bonnie McFarlane. The show currently has no theme music, although in its early months it did use the theme song from Home Improvement to open and close an episode.
Since its launch, Cum Town has developed a word-of-mouth cult following. On June 27, 2016, Mullen launched a Patreon page for the podcast, with each person pledging $5 or more a month getting an additional bonus episode each week as a reward.[4][5] That page has since gone on to become one of the most successful on the website, generating over 9000 patrons and over $40000 in monthly revenue as of December 2018.[6]
Although the hosts of Cum Town have not made an effort to have the podcast officially identified with a political group, it has nonetheless been described by New York Magazine's The Cut as "leftist."[7] Other examples of its leftist sympathies include Friedland joining the Democratic Socialists of America in late 2016 as well as Halkias jokingly referring to himself as a member of a "'we-don't-read-but-we're-socialist' caucus."[8][9] It has also become associated with the popular podcast Chapo Trap House, as its hosts would regularly promote Cum Town both within their own episodes and on their Twitter feed.[10]
Controversy
Due to their politically incorrect nature, both Cum Town and its hosts, Mullen most notably, have garnered controversy and criticism.[11] On October 2017, during the height of #MeToo movement, the show featured several jokes that appeared to make light of rape and sexual harassment in Hollywood's movie industry, which led to some criticisms among people on the left.[12] In December 2018, Patreon banned British YouTuber Carl Benjamin, also known as Sargon of Akkad, from its platform for violating the company's policy against hate speech.[13] This led to some Sargon of Akkad supporters citing Cum Town as an example of Patreon's double standards, since the podcast has regularly used language similar to the ones that got Benjamin in trouble without getting a similar ban.[14]
While Cum Town currently remains on Patreon, a few of the hosts social media accounts have gotten suspended for violating their website's content policy, including Mullen's Twitter feed and Halkias' original Instagram feed.[15][16]
References
- ↑ Colangelo, BJ (July 19, 2018). "Accidental Comedy Fest 2018 to Showcase Doug Benson's 'Doug Loves Movies' Podcast, Cum Town Live and Jermaine Fowler". Cleveland Scene. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Mullen, Nick (May 11, 2016). "The Original Cum Boys". Shout Engine. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Al-Greene, Bob (December 19, 2018). "Thank you, podcast gods, for the 15-second skip button". Mashable. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ "The Cum Boys are creating Cum Town Podcast". Patreon.
- ↑ "Please Kindly Shut Up About Exposure". pastemagazine.com.
- ↑ "The Cum Boys: Patreon Earnings + Statistics + Graphs + Rank". Graphtreon.
- ↑ Malone, Noreen (October 25, 2018). "Red Scare Leans Into Nothing". The Cut. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Friedland, Adam (December 27, 2016). "rose emojis". Twitter. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
- ↑ Chapo Trap House (28 December 2018). "Episode 241 - Hot Couch Nation feat. Stavros Halkias & Matt V. Brady". Patreon (Podcast). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- ↑ Texas, Virgil (June 1, 2017). "go on Cum Town". Twitter. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
- ↑ Fay, Connor (March 23, 2017). "Agent Provocateur: Nick Mullen versus the maddening moan of Twitter's Leftist comrades". The Circular. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Stein, Jeff (October 24, 2017). "Listen to what socialist women are saying about misogyny on the left". Vox. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Bowles, Nellie (December 24, 2018). "Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt". The New York Times. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Wilson, Barrett (December 25, 2018). "Patreon's policy of policing speech leaves people poor at Christmas". The Post Millenial. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Lauer, Jake (April 20, 2017). "Catching Up with Brandon Wardell". Vulture. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ↑ "No Reprieve for Stavvybaby on Instagram, And You'll Never Guess Why He Was Banned". The Interrobang. February 18, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
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