Nick Mullen
Nicholas James Mullen is an American stand-up comedian and podcaster. Active since 2005, he is best known as the creator and co-host of the comedy podcast Cum Town and its ongoing successor The Adam Friedland Show. He released his first comedy special, The Year of the Dragon, in December 2023. His comedy often focuses on internet culture and is ironic, observational and self-deprecating.
Career
Originally from Gaithersburg, Montgomery County, Maryland, he began performing in the Washington–Baltimore Metropolitan Area as a teenager, often at Wiseacres Comedy Club in Virginia. During his early twenties, he was based out of Austin, Texas.A nationally touring stand-up, he was an opener for acts including Dana Gould, Jim Norton, Patrice O'Neal, and Hannibal Buress. In 2010, he was named "Best of Fest" at the Laugh Detroit festival. In 2012, he performed at SXSW as part of the Made in Austin and Weekend Spotlight comedy showcases. That same year, he was named one of the New Faces Unrepped by Montreal's Just for Laughs festival. Other festivals include the 2014 Bentzen Ball in Washington, D.C.
From 2013 to 2015, he wrote a blog under the heteronym Nicole Mullen on Thought Catalog. He also had a prank call podcast called Help Me, I'm Old.
In the mid-2010s, Mullen moved to New York City. Prior to Cum Town, he had multiple TV and radio appearances. During the late 2010s, he was a recurring guest on the Real Ass Podcast, Race Wars, and Legion of Skanks. His writing credits include Comedy Knockout on TruTV, Make Me Understand with Jim Norton, and 2017's Problematic with Moshe Kasher. Additionally, he made appearances on Fox News' Red Eye as a guest panelist.
From 2016 to 2022, Mullen was a co-host of the comedy podcast Cum Town with fellow comedians Adam Friedland and Stavros Halkias. After Halkias left the show, Mullen and Friedland started another podcast, The Adam Friedland Show, releasing the first episode on June 29, 2022.
His stand-up special Nick Mullen: The Year of the Dragon was released on December 3, 2023, reaching one million views after its first week of release.
Personal life
Mullen lives in Brooklyn, New York. He previously lived in Manhattan's Chinatown; some of his comedic anecdotes draw from his experience living there in a windowless tenement.Political beliefs
Mullen has been a vocal supporter of many social democratic political positions on podcasts and interviews throughout his career including universal health care. In his 2023 stand-up special Nick Mullen: The Year of the Dragon he stated "I believe that health care is a human right. I think everybody should have it: free, easy access." Mullen stated in 2024 on an episode of The Adam Friedland Show Podcast that "I'm not a communist, I want to make that clear." While being pressed by colleague Ari Shaffir on his politics he clarified "If you really had to put me in a box I'm nothing more than just a run-of-the-mill social democrat."In 2025, Mullen appeared in an Instagram video with Zohran Mamdani to promote the latter's successful campaign in the 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary.