The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table

The whole gang is back in the studio! Nick Griffin is a Cellar regular, has made multiple appearances on Letterman and hosts a podcast called Scary Monsters. Rob Feld is a journalist and filmmaker. He is currently working with Duke University professor Chris Bail on a documentary series that debunks the myths around how social media impacts political polarization and the free exchange of ideas.

Eve Barlow

Patrick Sharkey is professor of sociology and public affairs at the PRinceton School of Public and International Affairs. He was formerly chair of sociology at NYU, where he taught for 10 years before joining Princeton. He is founder of americanviolence.org, former scientific director of crime lab new york, and author of the book Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence

Mehran Khaghani and Lara Bazelon

Alan Dershowitz

Jeannie Suk Gersen is a law professor at Harvard Law School and a contributing writer to The New Yorker. Myq Kaplan is a comic, his most recent album AKA is available now.

Raanan Hershberg is a comedian who has performed on The Late, Late Show with James Corden and Comedy Central. Misty Marris is a trial attorney based in New York City specializing in the defense of clients in entertainment, sports, employment, civil rights and sexual assault/abuse cases. Misty appears as an independent legal analyst on a variety of news networks including Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, HLN and NBC covering of the moment cases and legal issues.

Dr. Sandra Gelbard joins Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand to discuss COVID and re-opening the Cellar. Dr. Gelbard is a board certified Internal Medicine physician, founder of Park Avenue Medical Concierge, and Clinical Instructor at NYU Langone and Lenox Hill Hospital. She is on the board of several schools in NYC to advise about COVID and her work on the subject has been widely published.

Wesley Yang is a widely published essayist and narrative nonfiction writer who has written for Harper's, New York Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine and the author of the 2018 collection the Souls of Yellow Folk published by W.W. Norton and named as one of the year's best books by the New York Times and Washington Post. He is at work on a book about what he has termed the Successor Ideology and about to launch a Substack that will explore the ongoing bourgeois moral revolution that goes by that name. Comic Brittany Carney recently made her aired standup debut on Comedy Central Stand-up Featuring.

Lara Bazelon is a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law where she holds the Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy and directs the Criminal & Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics. Her first novel, a courtroom thriller titled A GOOD MOTHER, will be published next month. Seaton Smith is a comedian and actor. His special, The Lockdown Special can be seen on EPIX.

Mayoral candidate, Andrew Yang, joins us! Andrew Yang is a NYC public school parent, business owner, and activist. He is running for mayor to help the city recover, after having successfully running a top education company, a non-profit recognized by President Obama, and building an anti-poverty movement during his presidential campaign.

Glenn Miller is a one time manager the Dworman Conglomerate including: Cafe Wha, The Olive Tree Cafe and The Comedy & VU and FBP. Saranne Rothberg started The ComedyCures Foundation from her chemo chair in 1999.

Andrew Hankinson is a journalist and author. His second book, Don't Applaud. Either Laugh or Don't. (At the Comedy Cellar) is a portrait of the iconic New York comedy club. Jon Laster is a stand up comedian, actor, writer, producer and regular at The Comedy Cellar.

Von Decarlo is a stand up comedian & Executive Producer of The Patrice O’Neal Documentary Killing Is Easy. Marina Franklin is a comedian, actor, writer, and host.

Jamie Kirchick is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a columnist for Tablet magazine. His first book, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age, was published in 2017, and his next book, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington is forthcoming from Henry Holt. Erin Jackson has appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers and CONAN and just made her Netflix debut as part of Season 2 of Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready.

Trish Roberts-Miller is a scholar of train wrecks in public deliberation—times that communities had all the information they needed to make a good decision and instead made a disastrous one. She is also a at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of several books. Comic Adrienne Iapalucci has appeared on "The Degenerates" on Netflix and Letterman. She just released her debut album, "Baby Skeletons."

Dov Hikind is an American politician, activist, and radio talk show host. He is a former Democratic New York State Assemblyman. Hatem Gabr is the co-host of the podcast, Live from America.

Wayne Federman is an Emmy-nominated stand-up, actor, author, professor, and podcaster. His new book is called, The History of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle. He co-hosts the acclaimed podcast: The History of Stand-Up.

Patrice O'Neal documentary, SNL & antisemitic jokes and how Noam's old friend almost killed him.

In our most heated episode yet, Noam goes to head to head with journalist Will Wilkinson. Danny Cohen talks about gay conversion therapy and Dan sees a mouse.

Immigration, stealing jokes, Ted Alexandro and Saturday Night Live. Eric Kaufmann is an author, journalist and Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. Alingon Mitra is a stand up comedian whose credits include Conan, Colbert, and Comedy Central.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand with comic Eagle Witt and esteemed Law Professor and author Richard Epstein. Noam connects with Epstein, after admiring his work from afar for decades, Dan considers self publishing and Periel goes on a tear about Marilyn Manson.

Dean Edwards is a stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer, musician and voice artist. Dr. Satish Pillai is a Senior Investigator in Viral Pathogenesis at Vitalant Research Institute and a Professor of Laboratory Medicine at UCSF.

Nick Clairmont is an associate editor at Arc Digital, a words columnist at the Washington Examiner Magazine, a book reviewer, and a writer based in New York. He’s currently working on a book about the history of Trolling. Neko White is a stand up comic. His new special is called DARK OUT.

Elizabeth Bernstein has been a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for 20 years. For the past decade, she has written a column she created called “Bonds: On Relationships,” about the psychology of relationships. Graham Kay is an award-winning comedian seen on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Has an Autism Awareness Podcast called “Autastic.”

Barry Friedman serves as the Faculty Director of the Policing Project at New York University School of Law, where he is a Professor of Law and of Politics.

Rich Vos, Robert Kelly and Hatem Gabr. Beloved by audiences around the globe, Rich Vos has over 100 television appearances and is the co-host of My Wife Hates Me podcast. Robert Kelly’s credits include the hit series Louie, Inside Amy Schumer, Trainwreck, Nurse Jackie and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. He hosts the top rated podcast, You Know What Dude.

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is an author and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked as a senior editor at Newsweek/The Daily Beast and his essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other leading publications. Ian Fidance is a New York City comedian, writer, and actor. He’s been featured in the New Yorker, New York Times, was a writer on Crank Yankers and has made multiple TV appearances. His first comedy album debuted at #1 on iTunes. He has a podcast forthcoming called Ian's Infinite Playlist.

Why is the government is killing small businesses? should Seinfeld should be nicer? Why is comedy getting the brunt of this pandemic. Make it make sense with Rebecca Trent, owner of iconic Creek and the Cave and Dani Zoldan, owner of Stand Up NY.

Michael J. Stern is a former state and federal prosecutor. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice for 25 years and prosecuted some of the Justice Department’s most significant cases. His expertise is in wiretap investigations, use of cooperating witnesses, and trial litigation. Joe Machi is a stand up comic and Comedy Cellar regular.

Author Margalit Fox is considered one the foremost explanatory writers and literary stylists in American journalism. She was a senior writer at The New York Times for the newspaper’s celebrated Obituary Department. She has written the front-page public sendoffs of some of the leading cultural figures of our age. Danny Cohen is a stand up comedian and regular at the Comedy Cellar. He is also the creator of Danny Cohen Ties.

Jena Friedman is a comedian, writer and filmmaker. Her recent credits including acting in the movie, Palm Springs, and writing on Borat. She has a stand up special called American Cunt. Eric Neumann has appeard on The Iliza Shlesinger Show, is the host of IFC’s Deep Dive, and his special, “Just A Phase” is coming out in December 2020.

Bonus Episode 12 with Dov Davidoff

Author and journalist Mickey Kaus is a neoliberal-turned-populist Democrat. But be warned, he voted for Trump. Twice! He has contributed to numerous publications including Harper’s, Newsweek andThe New Republic. He writes about everything but especially welfare reform and immigration and has a newsletter on Substack called kausfiles.

On the table: Donald Trump, trans politics, COVID, the vaccine and being Jewish with guest, Jaye McBride. McBride is one of the first trans comedians to work on a national level. She has performed as a headliner and shared the stage with comedy greats. She recently made her television debut on Comedy Central's 'This Week at the Comedy Cellar'.

Fred Siegel is a historian and the author of multiple books including his most recent, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump.

Transgender politics, woke culture, pronouns and sex. Sound engineer, DJ and one of Noam's oldest and dearest friends, Nikki Jax joins us along with stand up comic and Cellar regular, Danny Cohen.

Al Martin is the owner of New York Comedy Club, Greenwich Village Comedy Club and Broadway Comedy Club. His new book is called, I Did it on A Dare: How I Created a Comedy Empire in 30 Short Years.

Cellar regular Danny Cohen and Dr. Maurice Shaw, the pharmacist and a stand up comedian who went viral after he lost his job at Walmart.

Claira Janover, the Harvard student who got doxxed and went viral after she made a TIK TOK about Black Lives Matter.

Colin Quinn (Saturday Night Live, Tough Crowd, Comedy Central, HBO) discusses the state of America and his new book, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States.

Noam Dworman, Dov Davidoff, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand

Bonus Episode 11 with Dov Davidoff

British comic, Konstantin Kisin, who made international in 2018 by refusing to sign a university “behavioral agreement form” which banned jokes about religion, atheism and insisted that all humor must be “respectful and kind”. He is joined by Francis Foster, co-host of their popular podcast, TRIGGERnometry. Use the code (COMEDYCELLAR) and Mybookie will double your first deposit at https://bit.ly/MB_COMEDYCELLAR

Bonus Episode #10 with Dov Davidoff Use the code (COMEDYCELLAR) and Mybookie will double your first deposit at https://bit.ly/MB_COMEDYCELLAR

Benny Morris, one of Israel's leading historians and public intellectuals, discusses the possibility of peace in the Middle East, and whether or not Donald Trump is good for Israel.

Author, journalist (The Economist, The Atlantic, The New York Times) and Washington Post columnist, Megan McArdle. Use the code (COMEDYCELLAR) and Mybookie will double your first deposit at https://bit.ly/MB_COMEDYCELLAR

Comics Judy Gold (HBO, Comedy Central) and Allan Havey (Mad Men, Billions) join the show as Comedy Cellar owner, Noam Dworman, goes on a rant about Jerry Seinfeld and Zabar's baskets.

Live from the Table: BONUS EPISODE #9 with Dov Davidoff

Entrepreneur, investor, author and co-owner of the comedy club, STAND UP NY, James Altucher discusses whether or not New York City is dead and responds to being called a putz by Jerry Seinfeld in The New York Times.