Mandy Stadtmiller (born October 24, 1975) is an author and columnist for New York magazine,[1] former editor-at-large of xoJane,[2] "Girl Talk" columnist for Penthouse[3][4] and host of the comedy podcast "News Whore." She is also known for her dating column in the New York Post, called "About Last Night."[5]

Mandy Stadtmiller
Stadtmiller at the March 19, 2009 Liam McEneaney's Writings with Music in Union Hall, Brooklyn, New York
Born (1975-10-24) October 24, 1975 (age 49)
Occupation(s)Journalist, comedian
Notable work"Unwifeable: A Memoir"
Spouse
(m. 2015; div. 2021)
Websitehttp://mandystadtmiller.com/

Her TV appearances include Inside Amy Schumer, Nightline, 20/20, The Insider, Dr. Drew On Call, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Uncommon Sense with Charlamagne Tha God, Good Day New York, Red Eye, Katie, The Artie Lange Show, The Joy Behar Show, Howard Stern TV, Fuse TV and VH1.

She has also written for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Mashable, Maxim, Time Out, The Village Voice, The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, The Des Moines Register, Playgirl and Match.com.[6]

She is a contributor to HuffPost Live.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Stadtmiller wrote about inspiring the Nina Howard character (played by Hope Davis) in The Newsroom after briefly dating Aaron Sorkin and showed their correspondence about the development of the "Bad Mandy" character in xoJane.[14][15]

Early life

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Stadtmiller was born in San Diego in 1975 to Patricia and Jerry Stadtmiller, a Marine and Vietnam veteran. In a 2018 interview, Stadtmiller stated that multiple bullet wounds to the face received during combat in Vietnam left her father completely blind and suffering anger management issues related to an acquired brain injury.[16]

She attended The University of San Diego High School in California. In 1997, she received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

Career

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In August 2006, Stadtmiller was groped and bitten by actor/comedian Andy Dick during an interview following his appearance on the Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner. Dick said that Stadtmiller "slanted" the incident.[17]

In 2006, Stadtmiller won first place in New York's Funniest Reporter Show[18] contest[19] in the New York City Underground Comedy Festival.[20] In October 2007, she became a semi-finalist in the search for New York's Funniest Stand-Up[21] a contest run by the New York Comedy Festival. She performs stand-up comedy throughout New York City at various clubs and venues.[22]

According to her Twitter account, in February 2012 Stadtmiller quit the New York Post.[23] She is a frequent contributor to the gossip pages of Page Six.

Stadtmiller was Editor-at-Large of Jane Pratt's site xoJane.[24] In September 2015, she wrote about continuing to have this role at the site but going freelance in a controversial piece called "How I Became a First-Person Human Trafficker" for New York.[25] For her work at xoJane, Stadtmiller was profiled twice in The New York Observer,[26][27] as well as on Flavorwire[28] and The Rumpus.[29]

In 2014, she was named as one of the 25 "most shameless people on the Web" at SXSW, where she was featured on a panel with Jane Pratt, Kristina Wong and Issa Rae for "Fearlessly Funny: The Women Changing Digital Humor."

Largely known for her social media presence, Stadtmiller was the first verified Twitter user from the New York Post,[30] and frequently writes about using social media for networking, including how to boost one's Klout score.[31]

Stadtmiller currently hosts a podcast on the RiotCast Network called News Whore. News Whore debuted at #22 in comedy podcasts on iTunes and has consistently remained in the top 100 since its launch in July.[32]

In early 2015, Stadtmiller announced "The Mandy Project," a month-long quest to find the perfect Valentine's Day date in partnership with the online dating website Plenty of Fish. For a month, she chronicled going on a series of dates and testing out romantic cliches such as "Play hard to get," "Love like you've never been hurt" and "Everything happens for a reason." The next month she announced that she would be documenting her relationship in "real-time" in a Kindle singles series called "Dear TMI-ary",[33] where she wrote about her new relationship with Pat Dixon. On 11 November 2015, she and Dixon married onstage in a comedy club, as part of Dixon's comedy show. Both the proposal and the wedding were broadcast on social media app Periscope, and tickets could be purchased to attend the joint wedding/comedy show.

In 2016, she began the weekly "Unwifeable" column for New York magazine's The Cut, chronicling her unlikely and unfolding marriage to Pat Dixon despite being, in her eyes, "the most unwifeable woman in New York".[1]

Stadtmiller writes a Substack called "Rabbitholed," which she describes as "The craziest stories in the world you never knew with the analysis you need now."[34]

List of News Whore episodes

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Episode Interview Original airdate
01 Colin Quinn July 2, 2013
02 Wayne Federman July 15, 2013
03 Sara Benincasa July 21, 2013
04 Jessica Delfino July 28, 2013
05 Taylor Negron August 5, 2013
06 Hannibal Buress August 11, 2013
07 Bonnie McFarlane August 19, 2013
08 Erin Carlson August 25, 2013
09 Lisa Ann September 1, 2013
10 Sara Schaefer September 9, 2013
11 Owen Benjamin September 16, 2013
12 H. Alan Scott September 23, 2013
13 Ben Gleib September 30, 2013
14 Stephen Falk October 7, 2013
15 Eddie Brill October 14, 2013
16 Warren Leight October 21, 2013
17 Kelly Shibari October 28, 2013
18 Charlie Todd November 4, 2013
19 Seka November 11, 2013
20 Benari Poulten November 18, 2013
21 Artie Lange November 24, 2013
22 Kyle Kinane December 2, 2013
23 Elizabeth Wurtzel December 7, 2013
24 J. Keith van Straaten December 15, 2013
25 Annie Lederman December 23, 2013
26 Jon Rineman December 30, 2013
27 Fred Armisen January 1, 2014
28 Michael Che January 12, 2014
29 Gary Gulman January 19, 2014
30 Marianne Garvey January 26, 2014
31 Lily Burana February 2, 2014
32 Liam McEneaney February 9, 2014
33 Jay Louis February 17, 2014
34 Maya Francis February 24, 2014
35 Eric Danville March 3, 2014
36 Jon Friedman March 10, 2014
37 Sam Roberts March 17, 2014
38 Belle Knox March 24, 2014
39 Kristina Wong March 31, 2014
40 Anna Breslaw April 7, 2014
41 Michael Malice April 14, 2014
42 Melissa Stetten April 21, 2014
43 Kurt Metzger April 27, 2014
44 Belle Knox 2 May 5, 2014
45 Donal Logue May 11, 2014
46 Brooke van Poppelen May 19, 2014
47 Jim Florentine May 26, 2014
48 Jerry O'Connell June 1, 2014
49 Morgan Murphy June 8, 2014
50 Dan Powell June 16, 2014
51 Christian Finnegan June 23, 2014
52 Mark Ebner June 30, 2014
53 Jacqueline Novak July 7, 2014
54 Myka Fox July 14, 2014
55 Mike Sacks July 20, 2014
56 Jim Norton July 28, 2014
57 Rory Albanese August 3, 2014
58 Colin Quinn 2 August 10, 2014
59 Dave Hill August 17, 2014
60 Pia Glenn August 25, 2014
61 Lisa Ann 2 September 1, 2014
62 Bailey Jay September 8, 2014
63 Todd Barry September 14, 2014
64 Julie Klausner September 23, 2014
65 Maria Heinegg September 29, 2014
66 Caissie St. Onge October 5, 2014
67 Carey O'Donnell October 13, 2014
68 Dan Naturman October 21, 2014
69 Emily McCombs October 27, 2014
70 Kevin Brown (actor) October 13, 2014
71 Julieanne Smolinski November 11, 2014
72 Noam Dworman November 18, 2014
73 Marci Robin November 24, 2014
74 Jenn Hoffman November 30, 2014
75 Olivia Hall December 7, 2014
76 Amanda Seales December 15, 2014
77 Marissa Jaret Winokur and Cathryn Michon December 7, 2014
78 Ben Joseph December 30, 2014
79 Kristin M. Davis January 5, 2015
80 Taylor Negron January 12, 2015
81 Rich Vos January 18, 2015
82 Rachel Sklar January 25, 2015
83 Jackie Kashian February 2, 2015
84 Michelle Buteau February 8, 2015
85 Pat Dixon February 16, 2015
86 Keith Robinson February 23, 2015
87 Paula Froelich March 2, 2015
88 Jodi Lennon March 9, 2015
89 Bex Schwartz March 16, 2015
90 Tanner Stransky March 26, 2015
91 Geno Bisconte March 31, 2015
92 Lloyd Grove April 7, 2015
93 Jack Burditt April 14, 2015
94 Pat Dixon 2 April 20, 2015
95 Matt Harkins and Viviana Olen April 28, 2015
96 Sam Morril May 5, 2015
97 Amber Nelson May 11, 2015
98 Nick DiPaolo May 19, 2015
99 Nate Fridson May 24, 2015
100 Von Decarlo May 31, 2015
101 Eric Schaeffer June 7, 2015
102 Tony Ortega June 16, 2015
103 Delaney Williams June 25, 2015
104 Bonnie McFarlane 2 July 2, 2015
105 Rob Shuter July 10, 2015
106 Dan Soder July 17, 2015
107 Jo Piazza July 25, 2015
108 Nick Vatterott August 4, 2015
109 Chris Laker August 9, 2015
110 CoCo Brown August 17, 2015
111 Kambri Crews August 25, 2015
112 Pete Dominick August 30, 2015
113 Elizabeth Wurtzel 2 September 8, 2015
114 Graham Smith September 17, 2015
115 Melissa Petro September 25, 2015
116 Judah Friedlander September 28, 2015
117 Polly Mosendz October 7, 2015
118 Michael C. Moynihan and Jon Ronson October 12, 2015
117 Jon Ronson October 23, 2015

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Radio show appearances

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b "Step One: Resolve to Die Alone. Step Two: Get Married". The Cut. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  2. ^ "xoJane". Archived from the original on 2015-08-30.
  3. ^ "Instagram photo by Mandy Stadtmiller • Mar 14, 2015 at 1:33am UTC". Archived from the original on 2021-12-24. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Too soon? Humorists weigh in on dark comedy". 9 June 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Gross Encounters of the Mandy Stadtmiller Kind". The New York Observer. 30 April 2013.
  6. ^ "Match.com - Find Singles with Match.com's Online Dating Personals Service". Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  7. ^ "HuffPost Live". Huffington Post.
  8. ^ "HuffPost Live". Huffington Post.
  9. ^ "HuffPost Live". Huffington Post.
  10. ^ "HuffPost Live". Huffington Post.
  11. ^ "HuffPost Live". Huffington Post.
  12. ^ "HuffPost Live". Huffington Post.
  13. ^ "HuffPost Live". Huffington Post.
  14. ^ "Mandy Stadtmiller: I Dated Aaron Sorkin, Became 'Newsroom' Character Inspiration". The Hollywood Reporter. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  15. ^ "I Inspired a "Bad" Version of Myself on Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom" - xoJane". Archived from the original on 2014-12-22. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
  16. ^ "Episode 910 - Mandy Stadtmiller". WTF with Marc Maron. 26 April 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
  17. ^ Booth, William (October 8, 2006). "What Makes Andy Dick Tick?". Washingtonpost.com.
  18. ^ Administrator (2011-08-02). "nyfunniestreporter.com". nyfunniestreporter.com. Retrieved 2012-06-09.
  19. ^ "2006 New York's Funniest Reporters". nyfunniestreporter.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-27. Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  20. ^ "nyucf.com". nyucf.com. Archived from the original on 2012-06-18. Retrieved 2012-06-09.
  21. ^ [1] Archived October 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ "Mandy Stadtmiller - Push Creative". Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  23. ^ Stadtmiller, Mandy (2012-02-06). "Did I mention I quit @newyorkpost? It's true..." Twitter.com. Retrieved 2012-02-06.
  24. ^ "Mandy | xoJane". Archived from the original on 2013-12-22. Retrieved 2014-01-03.
  25. ^ "It Happened to Me: How I Became a First-Person Human Trafficker". 21 September 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  26. ^ "The Mandy Show: Mandy Stadtmiller Spills On Memoir, xoJane–and a Reality Show?". The New York Observer. 19 September 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  27. ^ "Gross Encounters of the Mandy Stadtmiller Kind". The New York Observer. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  28. ^ "In Defense of Mandy Stadtmiller: Why Internet Oversharing Isn't Just xoJane's Problem". Flavorwire. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  29. ^ "The Rumpus Interview with Mandy Stadtmiller". 15 November 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  30. ^ "7 Ways to Get Verified on Twitter -- Including the Story of How I Did | xoJane". Archived from the original on 2013-08-24. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  31. ^ "10 Reasons You Don't Have a Job -- or at Least One That You Love | xoJane". Archived from the original on 2013-08-16. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  32. ^ a b "Here Are All of the Secrets I Probably Shouldn't be Giving Away About How to Debut a Successful Podcast | xoJane". Archived from the original on 2013-08-20. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  33. ^ McCarthy, Allison (17 March 2015). "7 Rules For Writing About Your New Relationship As It Unfolds, Because TMI Can Be Rewarding". Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  34. ^ "Ignore Previous Directions | Mandy Stadtmiller | Substack". mandystadtmiller.substack.com. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  35. ^ "Rock Band Cometh: The Rock Band Band Story". 11 November 2007. Retrieved 9 December 2016 – via IMDb.
  36. ^ "What to Know if You're Doing a TV Appearance, and Hey Check Me Out on 20/20 Tonight! | xoJane". Archived from the original on 2014-01-03. Retrieved 2014-01-03.
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