Making a comedy-music album based mostly on secrets and techniques shared by web strangers may not look like an apparent step for Jordan Firstman, who stars in FX’s “English Teacher” and Rachel Sennott’s new HBO present that’s being referred to as the “It” pilot of the season.
However there’s nothing about Firstman’s profession that feels textbook Hollywood — and that’s what makes him such a compelling determine. That, and all of the jokes.
In Sunday Funday, L.A. folks give us a play-by-play of their ideally suited Sunday round city. Discover concepts and inspiration on the place to go, what to eat and methods to take pleasure in life on the weekends.
The actor-writer-director grew to become “internet famous” (his phrases) through the COVID-19 pandemic when he began doing impressions on social media of unsuspecting topics reminiscent of an iPhone charger not made by Apple, a person who’s 5’11” and banana bread’s publicist (“They’re trying to get me to represent pumpkin pie right now. I’m like, b—, come back to me in four months”). Since then, he’s taken on tasks that really feel various and contemporary, together with taking part in the lead function at nighttime comedy “Rotting in the Sun,” which premiered at Sundance in 2023.
Firstman’s debut album, “Secrets,” launched this month, was born out of the pandemic moments when he’d ask his followers to submit their secrets and techniques to him through Instagram Tales, and he’d share them anonymously. He finally turned a number of of the confessions into hilarious and extremely spectacular songs (a lot of which have salacious titles that can’t be printed right here). “The coolest thing is making art out of life,” says Firstman of the genre-defying album. “This feels like the most direct way I can do that.”
At all times gravitating towards good vibes and extra jokes, Firstman packs his Sundays with issues that deliver him delight. His agenda for an ideal day in L.A. features a boat get together, an ice tub and essentially the most wonderful spicy shrimp on the town.
This interview has been frivolously edited for size and readability.
Midnight: Sunday formally begins
Are we contemplating midnight the beginning of the day? If it’s midnight, we nonetheless have a pair hours beginning the day, so we’re both at a home get together or possibly Chateau [Marmont] until round 2 or 3. I believe 3 is the proper time to go residence as a result of it doesn’t really feel such as you’re lame and going residence at 2 simply since you’re in L.A. and everybody goes residence at 2 in L.A. However you may nonetheless sleep until like 10 and have a superb evening. A whole lot of my buddies push it a bit of too laborious and go until 5 or 6. Not for me. I’m too previous for that.
10:30 a.m.: Morning bagels
We’re instantly going to Braveness Bagels. My greatest flex in L.A. is that I get to chop the road at Braveness Bagels as a result of they like me. I attempt to use it not more than twice a yr as a result of I don’t wish to lose the privilege. I’m virtually even hesitant saying it as a result of I don’t need them to take it away from me. However I do assume we now have a superb DM rapport. If I had my dream, somebody would go decide up the bagels for me and convey them to my mattress. However I don’t have a beloved one like that proper now. So we’ll go to Braveness, reduce the road, get a Burnt The whole lot with the salted butter.
Then I’ll pop over to Sqirl only for drinks. They’ve a superb mocha there, and the lavender lemonade is actually good.
11 a.m.: A strategic exercise
I’ll go to Rodeo [Athletic Club], my fitness center in Silver Lake. Apparently, the key system to shedding fats is — wait, maintain on [pulls out his phone] — the 12-3-30 technique. It’s 12% incline and three% velocity for half-hour on the treadmill. And I watch one episode of both “Sex and the City,” “Girls” or “Entourage,” and that’s half-hour. The time goes by since you’re not working. I hate working. So that you’re strolling, however you continue to get sweaty and you are feeling such as you’re figuring out. And apparently it’s higher than working. Like, that’s what TikTok tells me, and I consider all the pieces TikTok tells me.
Then I’ll do a few minutes within the ice tub. Previously six months, I’ve gotten actually into it. I did eight minutes one time. It makes you are feeling so significantly better emotionally. It’s actually laborious to be in a nasty temper after you do it.
12:30 p.m.: Celebration on a ship
My buddy John Sharp has a ship parked in Marina del Rey. I’d spend the day there with a bunch of those homosexual Venice boys. It’s a superb, healthful vibe. And, you understand, we’ll do some mushrooms, drink some pure wine. Often somebody will deliver some bread and cheese from Gjelina. Then some buddies can have folks over to their home after, and so they’ll order some meals. They usually’ll make everybody Venmo earlier than the meals even comes. And generally I’m doing the mathematics and I’m like, wait, I don’t assume you guys are even paying [laughs]. That’s the vibe, however we love them for it. They usually’re opening their home to us, so we will pay for his or her supply. It’s effective. However that’s often what finally ends up taking place.
3:30 p.m.: Get scrubbed
On my manner residence, I’d cease at Century Day & Evening Spa. If that is one of the best day ever, I’d do a physique scrub. As a result of generally while you’re on the fitness center, you neglect to bathe. There’s some “bacne” taking place, so you actually gotta scrub it out. And so we’ll have a type of previous, good Korean males scrub it out.
6 p.m.: Assemble the best chunk of Sichuan meals
So we’re going all the way in which to San Gabriel Valley now. My favourite Sunday restaurant is Chengdu Style, and I’m ordering so much. Hopefully I can get some buddies to come back. All of my buddies are, like, anorexic mainly, or have some type of consuming dysfunction, so it’s laborious to get folks to eat fattening meals with me.
I’m getting the flavored shrimp, the crispy hen with the chile peppers, the eggplant, the tomato and egg soup, the Chengdu fried rice and the inexperienced beans. The proper chunk is the Chengdu fried rice — it’s so f— good and one of the best fried rice I’ve ever had in my life. That with a chunk of the eggplant, which is actually delicate and virtually souplike, after which with one of many shrimps. Oh, my gosh, I’m getting so excited. It’s like essentially the most insane chunk ever, and also you’re sweating and it’s lovely.
8 p.m.: Some fast enjoyable
If that is my ideally suited Sunday, a f— buddy or an informal dalliance would come over, and we’d have intercourse. That may be 8 to eight:40. OK, at most, actually, 8 to eight:25. Let’s be actual. After which he would go away, after which I’d watch “The White Lotus.”
10 p.m.: Wind down with a skincare routine
I’d do skincare after that. Get all my new peptides that I’m taking crammed up. Get these syringes crammed. A great masks could be good, simply to look contemporary for the subsequent day. In mattress by 11.
