After years of the snarky grind, Club Kid feels transformative for Jordan Firstman

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Set us as preferred Just a block up the hill from the Silver Lake Reservoir on one of those secluded streets that feels like the L.A.of the 1970s sits a dark-wood-shingled triplex of apartments.

It both is and isn’t a Neutra house.The current occupant of eight years, actor Jordan Firstman, tells us the backstory.“So it was built by Dion Neutra, who was Richard’s son,” says Firstman, 35, lighting a cigarette on a balcony overlooking a shady, leaf-dappled swimming pool.

“Dion kind of made this as a ‘F— you, Dad.’ He’s like, ‘I’m going to be an artist and have an artist compound.’”The only guide you need for fall entertainment.Enjoying the turns of his anecdote, Firstman leans in.“And then I was with an ex at the time, just walking down the street,” he says.

“There was a little sign that’s like, ‘Are you a Neutra fan? There’s an apartment opening up.’ Because he didn’t know how to use email.So I just called this number.”His tale has many elements that could be called Firstman-esque: generational tension, a stroke of luck, a gay relationship that ends before it begins.

Even the fact that he has since redecorated these interiors several times over, from blinged-out to something more focused (though still shocking pink), fits where he is right now.Firstman has shed more personae than do most Instagram comedians-turned-actors.He used his time during the COVID-19 pandemic to break through virally with a series of mock-confessional “Impressions” (his bit as Mother Nature killing off the human race as a “toxic situation” is a keeper).

He’s made traditional short films, worked in the writers’ room for HBO’s “Search Party” and sang about Laura Dern at the Spirit Awards.More recently, there’s been a comedy album, a role on “I Love LA” and plenty of misconceptions abou...