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. As of May 2021, "Cum Town" is the eighth most popular podcast on Patreon.
It has featured guests including David Cross, 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). "Cum Town" received coverage after "Saturday Night Live" pulled Shane Gillis from its cast for making controversial jokes and remarks on his own podcast. 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" instead of Louis C.K.—and usually involve sexually explicit scenarios as well as ethnic and racial stereotypes.
Mullen is the primary host and producer of the show, with Halkias as co-host. 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, Andrew Cuomo, Patrick Warburton, Rip Torn, Gene Hackman, Jon Hamm, Norm MacDonald, Joe List, Mark Normand, Ice-T 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. 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". 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."