# 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".
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."

### 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)
* The Insider (2010)
* The Joy Behar Show (2010)
* Pepsi: The Flow (2011)
* 20/20 (2012)
* 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)