Making a comedy-music album primarily based on secrets and techniques shared by web strangers may not appear to be 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 may be 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 perfect Sunday round city. Discover concepts and inspiration on the place to go, what to eat and easy methods to take pleasure in life on the weekends.
The actor-writer-director turned “internet famous” (his phrases) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic when he began doing impressions on social media of unsuspecting topics akin to 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 diversified and recent, together with taking part in the lead position 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 by way of Instagram Tales, and he’d share them anonymously. He ultimately turned a number of of the confessions into hilarious and extremely spectacular songs (a lot of which have salacious titles that can’t be revealed 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 convey 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 calmly 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 feel 3 is the proper time to go house as a result of it doesn’t really feel such as you’re lame and going house at 2 simply since you’re in L.A. and everybody goes house at 2 in L.A. However you’ll be able to nonetheless sleep until like 10 and have an excellent evening. A number of my pals push it slightly too onerous 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 12 months 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 have now an excellent DM rapport. If I had my dream, somebody would go choose up the bagels for me and convey them to my mattress. However I don’t have a cherished one like that proper now. So we’ll go to Braveness, lower the road, get a Burnt The whole lot with the salted butter.
Then I’ll pop over to Sqirl only for drinks. They’ve an excellent mocha there, and the lavender lemonade is de facto good.
11 a.m.: A strategic exercise
I’ll go to Rodeo [Athletic Club], my health club in Silver Lake. Apparently, the key method to shedding fats is — wait, maintain on [pulls out his phone] — the 12-3-30 technique. It’s 12% incline and three% pace 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 imagine all the pieces TikTok tells me.
Then I’ll do a few minutes within the ice tub. Prior to now six months, I’ve gotten actually into it. I did eight minutes one time. It makes you’re feeling so significantly better emotionally. It’s actually onerous to be in a nasty temper after you do it.
12:30 p.m.: Celebration on a ship
My pal 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 an excellent, healthful vibe. And, you already know, we’ll do some mushrooms, drink some pure wine. Often somebody will convey some bread and cheese from Gjelina. Then some pals 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 typically 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 superb. However that’s often what finally ends up taking place.
3:30 p.m.: Get scrubbed
On my approach house, I’d cease at Century Day & Night time Spa. If that is one of the best day ever, I’d do a physique scrub. As a result of typically once you’re on the health club, you overlook 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 chew 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 pals to come back. All of my pals are, like, anorexic principally, or have some type of consuming dysfunction, so it’s onerous 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 chew 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 chew of the eggplant, which is de facto comfortable 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 chew ever, and also you’re sweating and it’s stunning.
8 p.m.: Some fast enjoyable
If that is my perfect Sunday, a f— buddy or an off-the-cuff dalliance would come over, and we’d have intercourse. That might 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 stuffed up. Get these syringes stuffed. An excellent masks can be good, simply to look recent for the subsequent day. In mattress by 11.
