Mindy's Comedy Archives

Episode 19 - Matteo Lane (285 Photos)

Matteo 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 suc

Episode 18 - Asher Perlman (80 Photos)

New 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...

Episode 17 - Marianne Ways (A Prequel)

Marianne 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. Calli

Episode 16 - Wyatt Cenac (510 Photos)

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

Episode 15 - Jo Firestone (495 Photos)

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 archive

Episode 14 - Brooks Wheelan (95 Episodes)

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

Episode 13 - Ruby Karp (95 Photos)

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

Episode 12 - Shane Torres (199 Photos)

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, ge

Episode 11 - Josh Gondelman (293 Photos)

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 w

Episode 10 - Andrea Allan (167 Photos)

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 G

Episode 9 - Adam Conover (61 Photos)

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 h

Episode 8 - Emmy Blotnick (223 Photos)

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 day

Episode 7 - Jim Gaffigan (214 Photos)

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 t

Episode 6 - Brittany Carney (126 Photos)

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 g

Episode 5 - Alison Leiby (231 Photos)

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 c

Episode 4 - Nore Davis (176 Photos)

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 h

Episode 3 - Joel Walkowski (119 Photos)

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, wi

Episode 2 - Joyelle Nicole Johnson (190 Photos)

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

Episode 1 - Rosebud Baker (324 Photos)

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”

Mindy's Comedy Archives - Trailer

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