The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by psychiatrist Dr. Larry Durlofsky. They discuss Lolita, Brooke Shields and parenting.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by comedian and actor, Jason Salmon. His multiple television appearances include Orange is the New Black, 30 Rock and 1 of 5 automobile based commercials you’ve seen in your lifetime. His new standup special, Biscuits & Gravity, is out now, on YouTube.

Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by comic and actor, Brian Scott McFadden. They discuss the art of stand up comedy and optometry.

Dr. Larry Durlofsky is a board certified psychiatrist with a master’s degree in pharmacology. He is the psychiatric consultant for NYC’s Metropolitan Jewish Health Systems managed Medicaid program and the NY and PA medical director for CHE Behavioral a nationwide psychiatric/psychology provider.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand talk tragedy in comedy, meditation and Chat GPT steals Dan's joke.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by lawyer and former Harvard Law professor, Alan Dershowitz. They discuss transgender rights, the current political climate in Israel and Trump's indictment.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Myq Kaplan. They discuss unrealistic hypotheticals, mental illness and Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Judy Gold is an Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian. She discusses her new, one-woman show, Yes, I Can Say That, based on her book of the same name.

Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand discuss Noam's recent purchase, new jokes, Chris Rock, whether or not it's cold in the studio and Periel tries to get Dan to give her advice.

Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand in the inaugural bonus episode of Table Talk, the new series of bonus episodes of Live from the Table. They discuss different styles of comedy and Dan gets vulnerable.

Brian Scott McFadden is an actor and comedian who is also well known for his voice over work. He has made multiple television appearances including on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and many more. He is a regular at The Comedy Cellar.

Myq has appeared on the Tonight Show, Conan, Letterman, James Corden, Seth Meyers, Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing, and America’s Got Talent. He has a one-hour standup special on Amazon, “Small, Dork, and Handsome,” and is a regular at The Comedy Cellar.

Noam has a big announcement for the team and guest, comic and actor Gianmarco Soresi joins. Soresi's multiple television appearances include Comedy Central, Netflix and many others. His podcast is called The Downside and he is a Comedy Cellar regular.

Josh Johnson is a stand-up, Emmy-nominated writer, performer, and NAACP award-winner from Louisiana by way of Chicago. He is currently a writer on The Daily Show, and is a former writer and performer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he made his late-night debut. Johnson is Comedy Central’s ‘most watched comedian ever’ with 40M+ views to date across their platforms. His new special, Up Here Killing Myself, is available on Peacock.

Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. He is the author of multiple books and is a frequent contributor to numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Journal of Law & many more. Richard Hanania is the author of Public Choice and the Illusion of Grand Strategy. and a forthcoming book on the connection between wokeness and civil rights law. run a think tank called the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.

A former software engineering manager, Jason Crawford is the founder of The Roots of Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to establishing a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century. In this episode we talk self-driving cars, Amazon and the endless possibilities of AI.

Kermit Roosevelt is a Professor for the Administration of Justice at University of Pennsylvania. He works in a diverse range of fields, focusing on constitutional law and conflict of laws. He has published numerous articles and is the author of two novels, In the Shadow of the Law and Allegiance.

Matthew Friend is a comedian and impressionist who has appeared on The Howard Stern Show, the Today Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and many others. His repertoire includes more than 250 impressions ranging from Rami Malek to Timothee Chalamet. He has over 1,000,000 followers on TikTok, Snap, Instagram, Facebook, and across all socials.

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, NYC. He is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. He is the author of several books including, Understanding Socialism and Understanding Marxism and his most recent, The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself.

Rich Aronovitch is a comic and actor, well known as a viral dancing and TikTok sensation. He can be seen on the Worst Cooks in America on the Food Network, Season 25. He is a regular at The Comedy Cellar.

Chaya Raichik is the creator behind the Twitter account, Libs of TikTok, which has 1.7 million followers. She rose to fame over the past two years to become a prominent right-wing figure who is often platformed by Tucker Carlson. Originally, Libs of TikTok was anonymous but Raichik's identity was revealed by the Washington Post in April.

Jonathan Randall is a comedian, actor and writer. His television appearances include Comedy Central, ABC and MTV. He hosts the podcast, American Jew. In this epsiode, Noam elucidates the history and the importance of the state of Israel.

Tyler Fischer is an actor and stand-up comedian. He has performed on America's Got Talent, NBC's Chicago Med, TV Land's YOUNGER and STARTUP on Netflix. He has been on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and recently co-starred in the western film Terror on the Prairie on The Daily Wire. His new comedy special "The New Normal'' is available on Youtube.

Eric Levitz is a senior writer for Intelligencer. He covers politics and economics.

Andrew Doyle is a comedian, writer and broadcaster. He is the host of “Free Speech Nation”, a weekly television show on GB News. He has written two books under the guise of his satirical character Titania McGrath: “Woke: A Guide to Social Justice” and “My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism”. He is the author of “Free Speech and Why It Matters” and “The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World”. Andrew is the co-founder of Comedy Unleashed, a stand-up night in London.

Sean Patton's multiple television appearances include Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Conan. His debut special, Number One, produced by Michael Che, is available on Peacock.

Jack Holmes is a senior staff writer at Esquire, where he covers politics and sports. He also hosts Unapocalypse, a series on solutions to the climate crisis.

Noam is still away. Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand discuss sex work with Kaytlin Bailey, is a sex worker rights activist, a writer and a comic. She is the Director of Communications at 'Decriminalize Sex Work' to help direct the growing support for sex-workers’ rights toward a national strategy to end the prohibition of prostitution in the United States.

Noam Dworman joins guests Dov Davidoff, Sheba Mason and Ian Wehrle from Tel Aviv. Dov Davidoff's multiple television appearances include HBO’s Crashing, and NBC’s cop drama Shades of Blue with Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta and The Tonight Show and Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel. He has performed two one-hour stand-up comedy specials for Comedy Central and Showtime and has a memoir published by St. Martin’s Press entitled ‘Road Dog’: Life and Reflections of a Standup Comic from the Road. He is a regular at the Comedy Cellar. Sheba Mason and Ian Wehrle discuss their show, The Jackie Mason Musical.

Noam's favorite guest, Lara Bazelon is back. She is the author of A Good Mother, a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she holds the Barnett chair in Trial Advocacy. She spent seven years as a deputy federal public defender in Los Angeles.

Rachel Feinstein has three Comedy Central specials, including ‘Amy Schumer Presents Rachel Feinstein: Only Whores Wear Purple’. Her multiple television appearances include the Amazon series RED OAKS and Judd Apatow's HBO comedy CRASHING. Her credits include Trainwreck, Top Five, HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, co-hosting THE VIEW on multiple occasions and several appearances on INSIDE AMY SCHUMER.

Benjamin Wittes is an American legal journalist and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he is the Research Director in Public Law, and Co-Director of the Harvard Law School–Brookings Project on Law and Security.

Ariel Elias is a Jewish comedian from Kentucky who recently went viral when a heckler threw a beer can thrown at her while she was on stage. She is regular at The Comedy Cellar. Danny Cohen is a veteran stand up comedian and a regular at The Comedy Cellar.

Moses Storm is a writer, comedian and actor. His multiple television appearances inlclude the NBC comedy SUNNYSIDE, I’M DYING UP HERE on Showtime, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT for Netflix and THIS IS US on NBC. His first comedy special, Trash White was produced by Conan O'Brien and is avaialble on HBO Max.

James Kirchick is an American reporter, foreign correspondent, author, and columnist. His most recent book, Secret City, is about the hidden history of gay Washington. It is a New York Times bestseller.

Shuli Egar is a nationally-touring headliner who took a one-week audition in New York and turned it into a 15-year radio career as a writer, producer, and on air correspondent for the Howard Stern Show. Shuli released a double album in 2019 called “Shulogy” which debuted at #1 and #2 on the iTunes comedy charts.

Mark Cohen is an American comedian known for hosting Make Me Laugh on Comedy Central. His numerous television appearances include Louie and The Sarah Silverman Program. He is the house MC at Comedy Cellar Las Vegas.

Lewis Schaffer is an American comedian and broadcaster, based in Nunhead, south-east London, where he moved in 2000.

A conversation about a piece Jed Shugerman co-authored in Persuasion magazine. Jed Shugerman is a Professor at Fordham Law School. He received his B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. (History) from Yale.

Dr. Lichtman is a Professor at Northern Illinois University. She holds a PhD in linguistics. Carmen Lynch is a Spanish-American comedian, actress, and writer based in New York City. Her multiple television appearances include Fallon, Letterman, Colbert.

Alan Dershowitz discusses trans swimmer Lia Thomas, Donald Trump and his newest book, The Price of Principle.

Mehran Khaghani is a standup comedian, emcee and actor. He is "remarkably gay" and of Iranian descent. He is a regular at The Comedy Cellar. Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author. Justin McKinney has had multiple performances on The Tonight Show, his own Comedy Central specials and consistently selling out theaters.

Mike Cannon is a comedian, podcaster and actor. His newest special is called Mike Cannon's Huge Mistake. He is a regular at The Comedy Cellar.

Stephen Merchant is an actor, comedian and director. With Ricky Gervais, Merchant was the co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series The Office, and co-writer, co-director, and co-star of both Extras and Life's Too Short. His show, The Outlaws is available on Amazon Prime.

Rafi Bastos is a Brazilian comedian, actor, journalist and television personality. He is one of the most well known and important comics in Latin America.

Jason Furman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He served eight years as a top economic adviser to President Obama acting as both President Obama’s chief economist and a member of the cabinet. Furman also served under President Clinton. Myq Kaplan is the host of Broccoli and Ice Cream and his most recent album is called AKA.

Phillip Lopate is an American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher. He is a professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he teaches nonfiction writing. He is also Noam's elementary school teacher. He joins us along with John Engle, Noam's first friend.

Ariel Elias is a New York based comedian who mixes her unique personal stories with witty, wry observations. She was selected as a 2021 New Face for the Just For Laughs Festival, performed warm-up for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and has been featured in the New York Times, described as, “a sly young comic.”

Bryan Caplan is a professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author. Dov Davidoff is a comedian, author, and real estate investor. His mutiple television appearances include Crashing, Maron and Shades of Blue. He is a regular at The Comedy Cellar.

Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States. He is the author of nine books, including his latest, Dispatches from the Race War.