About this podcast
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
The newest 20 of 23 episodes
- Episode 22 - Dylan Adler (81 Photos) · 48 min · Episode 22Dylan Adler enters the archives on December 17, 2019 at The Sultan Room on the show Good God. The next time I see him, shows have moved outside. Everyone's in a mask. No one…
- Episode 21 - Ed Larson (336 Photos) · 1 h 41 min · Episode 21Ed Larson enters the archives on April 19, 2010 with Henry Zebrowski. This episode covers the Murderfist move from Florida to New York, his time as a cook, a brief stint as a…
- Episode 20 - Henry Zebrowski (335 Photos) · 1 h 19 min · Episode 20Henry Zebrowski enters the archives with Murderfist at Whiplash at UCB Theater on April 19, 2010. Soon, he and his sketch group, Murderfist, team up with a Texan, Marcus Parks…
- Episode 19 - Matteo Lane (285 Photos) · 1 h 30 min · Episode 19Matteo Lane enters the archives at The Creek and The Cave's Thanksgiving celebration on November 22, 2012. Over the next few years, he is on every major show in rapid succession…
- Episode 18 - Asher Perlman (80 Photos) · 57 min · Episode 18New Yorker cartoonist and Late Show writer Asher Perlman enters the archives at The Bell House in December of 2019. He's back at The Bell House a month later and then... I don't…
- Episode 17 - Marianne Ways (A Prequel) · 1 h 26 min · Episode 17Marianne Ways, comedy booker and producer brings in HER photos of NYC comedy from 2003 - 2008. You'll see photos in the tray from Marianne's point and shoot camera. Calling all…
- Episode 16 - Wyatt Cenac (510 Photos) · 1 h 38 min · Episode 16Wyatt 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…
- Episode 15 - Jo Firestone (495 Photos) · 1 h 6 min · Episode 15Jo 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…
- Episode 14 - Brooks Wheelan (95 Episodes) · 36 min · Episode 14Not 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…
- Episode 13 - Ruby Karp (95 Photos) · 59 min · Episode 13Ruby 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 12 - Shane Torres (199 Photos) · 57 min · Episode 12Shane 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…
- Episode 11 - Josh Gondelman (293 Photos) · 1 h 28 min · Episode 11Josh 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…
- Episode 10 - Andrea Allan (167 Photos) · 51 min · Episode 10Andrea 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…
- Episode 9 - Adam Conover (61 Photos) · 1 h 0 min · Episode 9Adam 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…
- Episode 8 - Emmy Blotnick (223 Photos) · 1 h 8 min · Episode 8Emmy 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…
- Episode 7 - Jim Gaffigan (214 Photos) · 49 min · Episode 7This 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…
- Episode 6 - Brittany Carney (126 Photos) · 55 min · Episode 6Brittany 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…
- Episode 5 - Alison Leiby (231 Photos) · 1 h 16 min · Episode 5Alison 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…
- Episode 4 - Nore Davis (176 Photos) · 1 h 11 min · Episode 4Nore 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…
- Episode 3 - Joel Walkowski (119 Photos) · 57 min · Episode 3Joel 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…
