Nick Mullen

Nicholas James Mullen (born December 13, 1988) is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, producer, actor and comedy writer. Active since 2005, he is best known as the creator and co-host of the comedy podcast Cum Town (2016–2022) and its successor The Adam Friedland Show (2022–present). 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 (and briefly Los Angeles).

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 (hosted by Kurt Metzger and Sherrod Small), and Legion of Skanks. His writing credits include Comedy Knockout on TruTV (premiered 2016), Make Me Understand with Jim Norton (2016 IFC television pilot), and 2017's Problematic with Moshe Kasher (Comedy Central). Additionally, he made appearances on Fox News' Red Eye as a guest panelist.

From 2016 until its end in 2022, Mullen was a co-host of the comedy podcast Cum Town. On June 29, 2022, Mullen and Adam Friedland released the first episode of The Adam Friedland Show, a successor to Cum Town, after co-host Stavros Halkias left the show. The show is hosted by Friedland and produced and co-hosted by Mullen.

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. Mullen voted for Howie Hawkins in the 2020 United States presidential election.

Popular culture
In the 2019 video game Disco Elysium, the protagonist of an in-universe crime fiction book series is called Dick Mullen, a reference to Nick Mullen.