Jordan Carlos
Jordan Carlos
Jordan Carlos is an American stand-up comedian who played a recurring character on The Colbert Report and is a co-host on the Nickelodeon kids’ show Me TV. He also appeared as a panelist and reporter on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. He’s also the co-host of the podcast Adulting.
Guest Appearances
January 20, 2025
This week, Jordan Carlos joins us to discuss how, during the 1970s, the FBI hired Mel Weinberg, a career con man, to tackle some of Washington’s biggest politicians.
June 27, 2023
Adulting podcast co-hosts Michelle Buteau (Survival of the Thickest) & Jordan Carlos (Everything’s Trash) join Ashley to gab about the latest TV news.
May 8, 2023
What’s Poppin’ Con-gregation? This week, comedians Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos join us to discuss Victor Lustig, a con artist of the 1920s who’s notorious for selling the Eiffel Tower, twice.
May 16, 2022
What’s poppin’ con-gregation? This week, Jordan Carlos joins us to discuss how during the 1970’s the FBI hired Mel Weinberg, a career conman to tackle some of Washington’s biggest politicians. This story inspired the movie American Hustle. Plus, Late Night Talk Show Host John Oliver is scamming the scammers…Congress that is. Stay schemin’!
Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/obituaries/mel-weinberg-dead-abscam-informant.html
https://www.nj.com/inside-jersey/2013/11/jersey_hustle_the_real-life_story_of_abscam.html
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/abscam
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/expulsion/140HarrisonWilliams_expulsion.htm
January 19, 2022
Step right up and see the amazing Judgementalist! This week Dan’s comforter becomes a pee pad and Michelle doesn’t have the security clearance to enter a department store. Then comedian Jordan Carlos joins Michelle to chat rude people who have gone to Brown, rude people who have come from France, and the perks of having an assistant (they’re all liquids.)
February 15, 2018
Jordan Carlos (Headliners) and Liel Leibovitz (Unorthodox) join Negin to share in her horror over the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Plus, they discuss the sky-high White House staff turnover rate. The panel imagines: if the White House were a reality show, who would get the final rose? Lastly, they discuss the resignation of South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma.