#tafs

Nick

Born December 13, 1988

Grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland

High school dropout

Latchkey kid and child of divorce

Dad was part of the Sullivanians cult for a few years

Strict stepmom that had him working shitty jobs at 15 in order to live there

Is an only child but has several stepsisters

Has worked many different shitty jobs throughout his life and is incapable of getting along with authority enough to keep them

Started hanging out in bars and comedy clubs around 15, which is when he began comedy

Alcoholic since mid teens

Spent his teen years trolling on IRC chat rooms

His Twitter display name before getting banned in 2018 was "Extremely Online Guy"

Diagnosed with Bipolar 1 disorder

Jokes about being autistic and probably is

Moved to Austin 2008-2009 where he met his ex-best friend Jake Flores

Won 2nd in the "Funniest Person in Austin" contest in 2010, performed at the Montreal "Just For Laughs" festival in 2012 where he got herpes from some woman

Moved to L.A in 2010-2011 where he was sexually assaulted by some guy in a Prius while he was drunk

Moved back to Austin in 2011-2012 before moving to D.C in late 2012, which is where he met Stav and Adam

Had a fake mommy blog called "Nicole Mullen" on Thought Catalog where he wrote a bunch of satirical articles as a mommy blogger. He started it as a spite project against an ex-girlfriend and made enough money on it to move to NYC

Moved to NYC in late 2013

The only thing he's ever loved is The Simpsons

Likes power tools and tinkering

Big fan of Wallace and Gromit and has an obsession with All Dogs Go to Heaven

Has never been sober in his life even while he was "sober." Has a penchant for cocaine and opioids. Had a period where he used to take a box of Coricidin Cough & Cold everyday after work at a pizza restaurant

Potentially closeted furry. Thinks Tony the Tiger is hot and is very familiar with DeviantArt subculture

Limp Bizkit enjoyer

Cried at the end of Fast and the Furious 7

Has a special connection with Call Me By Your Name and Nanette gave him a mental breakdown

Surprisingly decent artist

Mean but principled

Adam

Born April 10, 1987 in Santa Monica

Lived there for a while before moving to Las Vegas in his late childhood

Family are Lithuanian jews from South Africa

Was very close with his mom

His grandma still lives in South Africa. She's super strict and says that she "can't stand queeny gay men"

Was a skater in high school

Was supposed to go to law school and was studying to become a lawyer before he started doing open mics in college and "decided to become a clown"

Has a sister

Was a theater kid in elementary school and once played the fairy Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Went to George Washington University in D.C

Ran a DIY punk-house venue called Subterranean A with a few other people in college back in 2009

Started hosting the Funny Moms alt-comedy show late 2012 at the Wonderland bar in D.C, which later moved to NYC in 2014

Used to sell weed in college

Had a crush on Julian Casablancas

Is an open and obnoxious romantic

Was engaged to Dasha from Red Scare and was in a relationship with her for 2 years

Used to frequent the Something Awful forums

Can play the guitar and loves Bob Dylan

Being a good son and a good friend are the most important things to him

Their relationship

Met in early 2013 in D.C. Adam heard about Nick through his friend and fellow comic Brandon Wardell, and decided to book him for Funny Moms

Nick thought the show was dogshit and started trashing it while onstage after getting drunk at the bar

They became friends shortly after. Adam invited him back to his place, and Nick was hammered, drinking a bottle of wine, tormenting Adam's cat Tupac by petting him backwards while getting clawed

Nick continued performing at Funny Moms and they eventually became quite close

Nick was a raging alcoholic at this time and Adam would always offer for him to sleep on his couch

Adam once planned on spending a New Orleans trip with his "most alcoholic friend" while doing a show there in late 2013 but was surprised to learn that Nick had become sober

Adam moved to NYC from D.C about half a year after Nick did

They became especially close after Adam moved to NYC

They worked several jobs together in NYC. One was display fabrication for David Yurman and the other was Nick bringing Adam onboard for a trucking job where Adam would just be in the passenger seat so they could spend more time together

Nick has called Adam his "only friend"

Adam solidly considers Nick one of his best friends

They kissed during the New Years 2017-2018 Legion of Skanks episode and it was extremely cute

Nick once said that the entire reason Cumtown even became a thing was because him and Stav loved to do gay song parodies together and him and Adam already hung out basically all the time

Adam sometimes brings Nick on dates with his girlfriend and even once offered to take him on one of his romantic vacations to Greece with her

There was a CT episode where Nick dressed up in Dasha's clothes in a homoerotically charged way and talked at length about Stav fucking him dressed as Dasha to get back at Adam

Adam once had to stay with Nick in their shared hotel room and convince him not to commit suicide in summer of 2018

The amount of pigtail pulling is insane

Nick once described Adam as both the Flanders and Karl (Homer's optimistic, homoerotic guardian angel) to his Homer

Nick once stayed in Adam's apartment during one of his heart attack scares where Adam and his girlfriend checked in on him to make sure that he was alive (*It might've actually been the other way around where Adam and his girlfriend went over to Nick's apartment to keep an eye on him)

The Adam getting Nick coffee saga in a suspiciously charged D/s way

Nick has both jokingly and seriously implied jealousy over Adam hanging out with other people, particularly in the opening Drea de Matteo sketch of the Rob Schneider TAFS episode

They share vapes, drinks, and Nick has implied that they used to always go to the bathroom together as well

Them both saying that they "share everything" together

Adam painted him a picture of Kim Jong Un which Nick is sentimental about

Many of their friends and podcast guests have implied that they seem like a couple

Nick has once jokingly referred to Adam as "his wife"

Adam has also jokingly referred to himself as Nick's wife

Adam would always watch Nick's cat for him whenever he was out of town

The opening sketch of the Chris Cuomo TAFS episode where they romantically dance together for several minutes, mirroring the first time they met with the "robot coming out of a box" bit someone did at Funny Moms

That period during the end of CT and beginning of TAFS where they were just blatantly flirting

Adam always directly or indirectly calling Nick handsome and hot

Adam always reassuring Nick that he's not as bad of a person as he thinks and says he is