Mindy's Comedy Archives
MINDY'S COMEDY ARCHIVES is a visual podcast featuring intimate interviews with the people who have been an instrumental part of the New York comedy community for the past 20 years. In each episode, our guest flips through a chronological stack of photos (starting with their very first "Mindy") using each image to unlock specific memories about their evolution in comedy. We'll touch on memories of early struggles and day jobs, to breakthroughs, friendships, and career shifts in an ever-changing industry.
Episodes
Wyatt Cenac enters the archives in 2008 at Comix shortly after moving to NYC for The Daily Show. He shows up in photos at Whiplash, Bowery Electric, and Hannibal's Comedy in a Garage at Matchless, a precursor to the much loved Knitting Factory show. While we didn't get to Wyatt's show, Night Train, in this ep, you can see the ones taped for Seeso here. We'll get to that era in the next episode. You can also celebrate Night Train at...
Jo Firestone enters the archives on August 24, 2014 at Shea Stadium (not that one, the artsy one in Bushwick.) at the The Macaulay Culkin Show. Once Jo enters the archives, we see her... A LOT! She's on Whiplash, Big Terrific, 50 First Jokes all in a row. The archives have a least 2 instances of Jo working leading the audience in "I Have Been There". Jo was SO busy in 2014 and 2015 that... we didn't even make it to 2016 in this epi...
Not every dream job is YOUR dream job. Brooks enters the archives in 2014, when he's at a coveted job in comedy. He didn't love it. We get into it in this episode. Brooks did stand up all around NYC while he was here. Most of his photos in the archives are from his coupla years as a New Yorker. Episode contains Whiplash, Night Train, and SXSW lore. Brooks has long since left NYC, filmed a comedy special in Alaska, joined a Spider L...
Ruby enters the archives getting headshots on a winter morning. We talked about crushes and pretty much nothing else. Ruby had an early start... she did ASSSSCAT at age 4! Our episode covers photos from her show at UCB East, Las Culturistas, and her 2017 book, Earth Hates Me. Her special, I Don't Trust Adults premieres on September 10.
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Shane Torres enters the archives on June 11, 2025 on CSL at Kabin. The photos are terrible. (We get to that!) This episode goes over Shane’s move from Portland to NYC, getting rock-ig-nized, and getting better at the business side of things. We got all the way up to the current-ish era of Good God shows at The Sultan Room. We got through box one of photos, that cover 2015 to just a smidge into the pandemic. And will cover mod...
Josh Gondelman enters the archives on stage performing as Dave Attell at Schtick or Treat on November 1, 2011 at Bowery Poetry Club. His first photo as himself is a few weeks later at Sidewalk Café for his show Afterlife with co-hosts Erin Judge, Emily Heller, and George Gordon. Josh appears in the archives fresh off a move from Boston. We hear advice he was given, some great, some stale, about when to make the NYC leap. We talk da...
Andrea Allan enters the archives on April 16, 2014 at The Village Underground in New York. We sort through photos from The Creek, my studio in Brooklyn, a Keith and the Girl podcast marathon. But maybe we're never gonna top this one photo from 2016 at The Village Underground. And that's... ok. I also go OFF on a tangent about how the algorithm tricked people into thinking I moved outta the city during the panini, but actually, I wa...
Adam enters the archives on January 6, 2011 performing on Lasers in the Jungle at Luca Lounge. You know Adam from his show on TruTV and his podcast "Factually". I found his insights during the strikes helpful and he has a clear eyed view of comedy at the moment. It's been fun to see the different ways people have entered the archives. Some are in the background, some have been comedians for a decade before I get there, and so...
Emmy Blotnick enters the archives on December 1, 2011 outside the long since closed Luca Lounge. We sorted through about half her photos and didn't get to more recent days, but we did get to the "Party Nights" cover. And we skipped ahead to chat about her current special, "What's Her Secret". Emmy will be back for an episode two... our chat was pretty fast-paced but we still only got through one box of photos! In the meantime...
This week, Jim Gaffigan and I attempt to describe Moonwork's Evening Of Original Works, the early days of Whiplash at UCB, alternative comedy in general. We got started talking about comedy and only made it through 20 of 200 photos so he'll have to visit again!
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Brittany enters the archives at the Night Train 5th Anniversary Show on November 6, 2017. Wyatt Cenac added her to the line up before she even moved to NYC! We actually got some culling and decisions made during this one!! We also talked about Live Snakes, a show at The Gutter. In the time since our interview, that show has announced a move to... we're not sure where yet. Follow them for updates. And watch Brittany's YT Special her...
Alison first walks by the archives at Whiplash in 2011 and I photograph her for real in 2013! Call it the comedy pipeline, infrastructure, ladder... whatever it was, it changed significantly from 2011 to today. We get into it in this interview. Alison also wrote about the aftermath of her show, "Oh God, A Show About Abortion". I think it's one of the best documents of this time we're in. She has a book out THIS WEEK. Book release s...
Nore enters the Comedy Archives on November 29, 2009 at The Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Nore shows up again in 2013. We see him regularly until Covid. A highlight is the record cover for Too Woke in 2018. In January of 2022, we teamed up on another cover shoot. Watch Nore's most recent special.
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Joel enters the Comedy Archives on January 14, 2012 at The Creek and The Cave in Long Island City. Joel's last photo before our interview for the podcast was in 2016, with an open door exiting the venue, and unknown to us, the archives for quite a while. Shortly after this, Joel gets sober, starts a basketball tournament, and becomes an author. He has a new book coming out on July 14, 2026. Just because you do comedy fo...
Joyelle enters the Comedy Archives in 2012 at the long since closed Red Star Bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This was a show run by Annie Lederman. I love that we have Annie greeting Joyelle as she walks on stage and into the archives. Joyelle had two boxes of photos and we only got through one. Around the time of her taping, I began to realize that we just may not get through everything in one interview and that's perfectly fine. I'v...
Our first guest EVER, the great Rosebud Baker talks us through her comedy moments from early bar shows to her special “The Mother Lode” and her new book (!) “Fully Baked”. Pre-Order HERE: https://bit.ly/FullyBakedRosebudBaker
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Host
Mindy Tucker
Guest
Rosebud Baker
MINDY'S COMEDY ARCHIVES is a visual podcast featuring intimate interviews with the people who have been an instrumental part of the New York comedy community for the past 20 years. In each episode, our guest flips through a chronological stack of photos (starting with their very first "Mindy") using each image to unlock specific memories about their evolution in comedy. We'll touch on memories of early struggles and day jobs, to br...
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