With an acute sense of the bizarre and an attraction to what’s taboo, Mandy Stadtmiller has made a name for herself as a journalist that is unafraid to court the subjects that many might shy away from.
In this interview, we get into her appearance on the Joy Behar show, her willingness to be shameless with her parents, and her fleeting meeting with Aaron Sorkin. We also discuss the fake outrage generated by titillating stories.

After leaving a career in journalism behind (The Washington Post, The Village Voice, The Des Moines Register) to marry her college sweetheart, Mandy Stadtmiller created a blog in 2004 to rediscover her voice again. A year later (and all in the same week) she turned 30, got divorced and was hired as an entertainment writer for The New York Post, the fifth largest newspaper in the country.
In the six years since, she’s won the title of Funniest Reporter in New York, placed in the semi-finals of the Funniest Stand-Up in New York, created a “Sex and the City”-style dating column that became a Gawker.com sensation, ranked one of the Top 200 Most Influential Print Reporters, according to Mediaite.com, and become a frequent contributor to the gossip pages of Page Six. She has been described as “funny and sexy” by Punchline Magazine, Mediabistro.com calls her a “longtime favorite of ours,” and Gawker.com wrote, “Okay, Mandy: We get it. You win.”