Mandy Stadtmiller

Mandy Stadtmiller (born October 24, 1975) is an author and columnist for New York magazine, former editor-at-large of xoJane, "Girl Talk" columnist for Penthouse 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."

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.

She is a contributor to HuffPost Live.

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.

Early life 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.

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 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.

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

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

Stadtmiller was Editor-at-Large of Jane Pratt's site xoJane. 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. For her work at xoJane, Stadtmiller was profiled twice in The New York Observer, as well as on Flavorwire and The Rumpus.

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, and frequently writes about using social media for networking, including how to boost one's Klout score.

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.

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", 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".

List of News Whore episodes 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

Television appearances Good Day New York (2006) Red Eye (2007) Fuse TV's "10 Great Reasons" (2007) VH1’s "Rock Band Cometh" (2007) Dr. Drew On Call (2012) Media Mayhem with Allison Hope Weiner (2013) Jane Velez-Mitchell (2013) The Artie Lange Show (2014) Katie (2014) Inside Amy Schumer (2014) Nightline (2014) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014) CNN Daily Share (2015)

Radio show appearances Howard Stern’s In Demand Channel (2006) The Lazlow Show (2006) Raw Dog Comedy (2007) Opie and Anthony (2007, 2013, 2014) Maxim Radio (2007) WOR (2007) The Jenny Hutt Show (2012, 2015) The Jane Pratt Show (2012) The Alan Colmes Show (2014, 2015) My Wife Hates Me (2015) The Jenny McCarthy Show (2015) Emily McCombs "OverShare" (2015) My Wife Hates Me (2016)