Dr. Carmen Harra is a world-renowned intuitive psychologist, best-selling author, radio show host, and relationship expert. Her new book, Plus One: the Numerology of Relationships is available now.

Donald G. McNeil, author of the new book, "The Wisdom of Plagues," discusses where we went wrong on COVID policies, as well as his outrageous termination at the NY Times. Here is folder with PDFs of all the docs: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wfTdozvW-vpuot2XXkwnQT9GG717txf3?usp=sharing https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/17/nih-disease-official-anthony-fauci-risk-of-coronavirus-in-u-s-is-minuscule-skip-mask-and-wash-hands/4787209002/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220112073517/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/types-of-masks.html https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/2021-01-26/some-european-countries-move-to-require-medical-grade-masks-in-public https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11688-7 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/health/cloth-masks-covid-cdc.html https://reason.com/volokh/2023/01/10/no-lockdown-sweden-seemingly-tied-for-lowest-all-causes-mortality-in-oecd-since-covid-arrived/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31441-x https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/17/king-sweden-failed-covid-strategy-rare-royal-rebuke-lockdown-hospitals-cases https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52903717 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/24/sweden-wrong-not-to-shut-down-says-former-state-epidemiologist https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-31/sweden-covid-policy-was-a-disaster https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/19/1010646/campaign-stop-covid-19-vaccine-trump-election-day/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783302/ https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/228/12/1720/7103191

Felicia Madison is a stand-up comedian and the Director of Talent and Development at West Side Comedy Club. Her one hour special, Better Than Sex is forthcoming on YouTube. Geoffrey Asmus regularly performs at the Comedy Cellar and was featured at Just For Laughs in Montreal as a ‘New Face.’ His special "The Only Funny White Man" is available on YouTube.

Fascinating and thoughtful journalist Rober Wright discusses his view of the Israeli conflict, the dangers of the "retributive impulse," realism in foreign policy and more...

Foreign policy expert David Rothkopf discusses the non-existential threats to Israel and (his views) the war crimes Israel is committing in response. Needless to say, a debate ensues.

Caroline Suh is an independent documentary filmmaker, whose work in film, television and commercials has been featured on Netflix, CNN Films, Sundance Channel, PBS, and Epix, among others. 

Carmen Lynch has appeared on a string of late night TV shows including The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with David Letterman and Conan. She has also appeared on Inside Amy Schumer, That Damn Michael Che, Life & Beth and the documentary Hysterical. Her latest special, Queef Week, is out now. Jeffrey Gurian is the host of Comedy Matters TV where he has over 500 interviews with celebrities. He has written eight books, five on comedy. The 2020 documentary, Who the F*ck is Jeffrey Gurian, is available on Vimeo.

Israeli Professor Joel Roskin caused an international stir with his editorial - "Why Moving to the Sinai Peninsula is the Solution for Gaza's Palestinians". Was he misinterpreted? He explains his intentions.

A new documentary maintains that Derek Chauvin was not given a fair trial. We interview doc creator Liz Collin. In my view this is as much about the trial as it is the right to discuss it. You be the judge. Here is a folder of some docs, including the Minnesota training manual. I do NOT endorse or know the reliability of these studies. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10MnO6P-T6z5SVtveGKKACBuueJzU80Xf?usp=drive_link Doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFPi3EigjFA&t=3414s Comments to podcast@comedycellar.com

Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson is a journalist, teacher, and rabbi. He is the author of ten books, including The Heresy of Jacob Frank, which won the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for scholarship.  He holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and nondenominational rabbinic ordination.  Jay is a frequent commentator on CNN and a contributor to Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, The Forward, and other publications. Dr. Michaelson worked as an LGBTQ activist for ten years and has been included in the ‘Forward 50’ list of influential American Jews.  

Stand up comedian Tina Friml uses animated optimism and fearless honesty about the social assumptions that come with living with cerebral palsy. She has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central, and The Drew Barrymore Show

He walks off after about 35 minutes of a 60-minute interview. In our view, this is an expose of the deep bias that permeates Human Rights Watch. You be the judge. Roth even goes as far as to claim that Israeli soldiers knowingly shot at people speaking in Hebrew. Ironically, we also offer an apology to Norman Finkelstein here. This is quite an episode. Podcast@ComedyCellar.com

Clayton Fletcher is a comedian, poker dude and author of "The ROI of LOL." Ray Ellin is a comedian, host and producer and the owner of Aruba Ray's Comedy Club.

Clayton Fletcher is a comedian, poker dude and author of "The ROI of LOL." Ray Ellin is a comedian, host and producer and the owner of Aruba Ray's Comedy Club.

Matan Peretz is stand up comedian, social media influencer and an active IDF soldier in the army reserves.

Laura High is a New York actor and comedian. She has been featured on the New York Comedy Festival and won the 'Broadly Funny' Divison at the 360 Stand Up Festival. Laura is a rising content creator and has gone viral several times on TikTok.

Aaron David Miller is an American Middle East analyst, author and negotiator. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has been an advisor to both Republican and Democratic secretaries of state and his articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Policy, USAToday and CNN.com.

A freewheeling debate on a lot of matters. Check out our YouTube page for sources and fact-checking matters. https://youtu.be/F1GkOhvscVY

Coleman Hughes and Michael Moynihan join for a quick conversation addressing some of Norman Finkelstein's main arguments.

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. Haidt is the author of multiple books including the forthcoming, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.

Daniel-Ryan Spaulding is a world-traveling comedian, TV writer and social media influencer. He has been described by Huffington Post as “brilliantly subversive,” and has a one-man show called 'Power Gay.' His special, 'So Berlin,' is available on YouTube.

Dan Senor, the author of the new book "The Genius of Israel", is a columnist, writer, and political adviser. We discuss Israeli society during the war, the effect on American politics, Biden's hopes for reelection, and much more.

Alan Dershowitz has been called 'the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer' and one of its 'most distinguished defenders of individual rights,' 'the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,' 'the top lawyer of last resort,' and 'America's most public Jewish defender.' He is the author of forty books including seven bestsellers.

This is a version of a debate originally aired on Live From America. See an extensively sourced version on YouTube https://youtu.be/XuDK8nyyT2I

Liel Leibovitz is editor-at-large for Tablet Magazine, host of its weekly culture podcast, Unorthodox, and author of the new book, How the Talmud Can Change Your Life.

Mark Yosef is an attorney, comic and the new owner of Dangerfield's Comedy Club.

Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome? Spyer pushes back on some of the more extreme interpretations of Netanyahu's policies and comments. Also discussed: Human shields, Jihad, Camp David negotiations, and more. Spyer is a British-Israeli analyst, writer, and journalist of Middle Eastern affairs. He is director of research at the Middle East Forum, editor of Middle East Quarterly magazine

Shai-Li Ron, a student at Harvard as well as former spokesperson for the IDF, describes the current state of anti semitism on campus.

Comments: Podcast@comedycellar.com Controversial Professor Norman Finkelstein and Commentary Magazine writer Eli Lake debate the current Hamas-Israel conflict. It's quite a conversation. Check out Eli's podcast - The Reeducation, and Professor Finkelstein's many books, including Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom.

PEN CEO and author of the book Dare To Speak, Suzanne Nossel discusses the coverage of Hamas, the banning of books in school libraries, Twitter, and other free speech matters. Buy her book! https://www.amazon.com/Dare-Speak-Defending-Free-Speech/dp/0062966030

Columbia professor Khalidi felt this interview was an "ambush." You be the judge.  We discuss all matters Palestine. *Two clarifications: 1. I think we talked past each other a bit on the issue of "indigenous people." I wish I had that part to do over. 2. He said the Israelis were killed in "settlements," he didn't use the word "settlers". I don't really think there's a difference though.  00:00:19: Ambushed? 00:09:52 The Hospital "Strike" 00:14:13 False Casualty Counts? 00:23:00 Has Israel Really Targeted Hospitals Before? 00:25:00 Does Hamas Use Human Shields? 00:34:00 Is International Law Used To Control the Oppressed? 00:44:02 Is Israel A White Settler Colony, Indigenous, or Both 00:51:00 Solutions? One State? Two States? 01:09:04 Were the Israelis Killed on "Settlements?" Order his book: "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine". https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Years-War-Palestine-Colonialism/dp/B083Z3YW4S/ref=sr_1_2?crid=DTV4RF6OW2XO&keywords=rashid+khalidi&qid=1697992719&sprefix=rashi%2Caps%2C297&sr=8-2

Greg Lukianoff is the President & CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the co-author, along with Rikki Schlott, of the new book, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Destroys Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution. Get Greg's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Canceling-American-Mind-Undermines-Threatens-ebook/dp/B0BTZT9PLM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20F3LOZXMQW85&keywords=greg+lukianoff&qid=1697910161&s=digital-text&sprefix=greg+lu%2Cdigital-text%2C77&sr=1-1

NYC Migrant Crisis, COVID Response, Build the Wall?, and More https://substack.com/@rossbarkan 0:00 Preliminaries 10:00 How Did New York and Cuomo eff up COVID? 16:13 The Real Lasting Impact of COVID 25:00 The Migrant "Crisis"!!! 36:48 Build the Wall? 50:00 The End of Racial Preferences 55:00 Congestion Pricing is a Horrible Idea (says Noam).

Noam Dworman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with journalist and editor Bret Stephens to discuss Hamas's attack on Israel. Bret Stephens joined The New York Times as an Opinion columnist in April 2017. He came to The Times after a long career with The Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently deputy editorial page editor in charge of international opinion and, for 11 years, the paper’s principal foreign-affairs columnist. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. At The Post he oversaw the paper’s news, editorial, digital and international operations, and also wrote a weekly column. He has reported from around the world and interviewed scores of world leaders. Mr. Stephens is the author of “America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder,” released in November 2014. He is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including three honorary doctorates, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. In 2022, the government of Russia banned him for life from visiting that country.

Ross Barkan is a contributing writer to the New York Times magazine and a columnist for Crain's. His Substack is called Political Currents.

Israel's preeminent historian, Benny Morris, discusses the latest Israeli controversies. He hasn't budged much...

Yascha Mounk, comes in to discuss his new book, "The Identity Trap," and much more.

Kyle Dunnigan is an Emmy, Peabody and Writer’s Guild Award winning comedy writer.  He stars in the Jerry Seinfeld movie "Unfrosted" along with a new cartoon series starring Adam Carolla. Kyle can also be heard regularly on the Howard Stern Show and the Adam Carolla Podcast, doing various impressions. Kyle has a significant online presence with over 1.3 million followers and was featured in The New York Times Best Comedy of 2018.

Scott Adams discusses it all. Was the election stolen, why he was canceled and how to "reframe" racism, his new book Reframe Your Brain, media bias, conspiracy theories, Tucker Carlson, and more.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with actor and comedian, Adam Ferrara.  Ferrara's multiple television appearances include the FX series Rescue Me, playing NYPD Sgt. Frank Verelli opposite Edie Falco on Showtime series Nurse Jackie, co-hosting the critically acclaimed BBC sensation US version of Top Gear and numerous others. His comedy album, It’s Scary in Here, debuted number one on iTunes.

Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the transformation of party coalitions and the future of American electoral politics. Before joining AEI, he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress from 2003 to 2022. A political demographer and commentator, Dr. Teixeira is the author of numerous books, reports, and articles. He is the coauthor of The Emerging Democratic Majority (Scribner, 2002), one of his most influential books, which was selected as one of the best books of the year by the Economist.

Noam Dworman and Dan Naturman have a round table to discuss the episode with Philip Bump that went viral.  Eli Lake is a journalist and the former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek. Currently, he is a columnist for the Bloomberg View. He has, among others, contributed to CNN, Fox, C-SPAN and Charlie Rose. Created and hosted by Mike Pesca, The Gist is the longest running daily news podcast in history, consistently ranked in Apple's Top 20 Daily News charts. In addition to guest hosting NPR Programs, he has frequently appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and The PBS Newshour, and written for The Washington Post, The Guardian, GQ, and more.  Michael Moynihan is a journalist, former National Correspondent for Vice News and co-host of The Fifth Column podcast. He was the cultural news editor for The Daily Beast/Newsweek, and the managing editor of Vice magazine.

Noam Dworman and Dan Naturman sit down with Daniel Drezner and Dov Davidoff. Daniel Drezner is Professor of International Politics, a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the co-director of Fletcher's Russia and Eurasia Program. He has written seven books and published articles in numerous scholarly journals. Dov Davidoff is a comic and an actor whose television appearances include The Tonight Show, Crashing and numerous others. He is regular at The Comedy Cellar.

Noam Dworman sits down with Philip Bump and Dov Davidoff.  Philip Bump is a national columnist for The Washington Post; before that he led political coverage for The Atlantic Wire. One of the paper’s most read writers, he focuses on the data behind polls and political rhetoric. Dov Davidoff is a comic and an actor whose television appearances include The Tonight Show, Crashing and numerous others. He is regular at The Comedy Cellar.

Dr. Richard J. Haier is Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been teaching and conducting research since 1984. In addition to his many professional publications, Professor Haier's research has been featured on NOVA scienceNOW, NPR, CNN, and CBS Sunday Morning, and in numerous newspaper and magazine articles. Nick Griffin has appeared on Conan, The Late Late Show, in his own half-hour Comedy Central special and was featured on The Late Show with David Letterman eleven times. His special, Absolutely Wonderful is available on YouTube.

Noam Dworman and Dan Naturman are joined by Dr. Louise Aronson, returning guest, psychiatrist Dr. Larry Durlofsky and comic, Maddie Wiener.  Dr. Aronson is a leading geriatrician, writer, educator, professor of medicine at UCSF and the author of the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life. Maddie Wiener was selected as a New Face at the 2021 Just for Laughs Festival, and recently taped a stand up set for Comedy Central. She has also appeared on You Up w/ Nikki Glaser on Comedy Central's Sirius XM channel, and PAUSE with Sam Jay on HBO.

Noam Dworman and Dan Naturman sit down with world-renowned Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, Dr. Orna Guralnik. She is on faculty at NYU, co-founder of the Center for the Study of Dissociation and Depersonalization at the Mount Sinai Medical School and is featured on Showtime’s documentary series, Couples Therapy. Special guest Juanita Dworman.

Todd Barry is an actor and comic whose numerous television and film appearances include HBO’s Flight of the Conchords and Mickey Rourke’s deli boss in 2009 Oscar winner The Wrestler. His stand up appearances include The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and two Comedy Central Presents specials. He has a stand up special on Netflix called Spicy Honey and he is the author of Welcome to Hattiesburg. He is a regular at The Comedy Cellar.

David Folkenflik was described by Geraldo Rivera of Fox News as "a really weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty-palmed reporter." Others have been kinder. The Columbia Journalism Review, for example, once gave him a "laurel" for reporting that immediately led the U.S. military to institute safety measures for journalists in Baghdad. Based in New York City, Folkenflik serves as NPR's media correspondent.

Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with Jaye McBride. McBride is funny, smart and proudly transgender. She is the first openly transgender comedian to perform at Madison Square Garden and is a regular at New York City’s “Comedy Cellar." In 2021, she was featured as one of the "New Faces" at the Just For Laugh's Comedy Festival.

Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with comedian, writer and actor, Jay Jurden. Jurden was named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch in 2022, has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and is a Staff Writer for Apple TV+'s The Problem With Jon Stewart.

Noam Dworman and Dan Naturman sit down with Dan McLaughlin, senior writer at National Review online and a fellow at National Review Institute. His writings on politics, baseball and law have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and legal journals. They discuss responsible reporting, conspiracy theories and the Trump indictments.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with Zach Zimmerman. Zach Zimmerman is a comedian and the author of “Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?” He is a Comedy Cellar regular and contributor to The New Yorker Magazine.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Jocelyn Chia, to discuss the recent controversy surrounding her joke about Malaysian Airlines. Also joined, from Singapore, is comic, Sam Cee.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by journalist, Radley Balko. Balko is the author of two books and has received numerous honors and awards for his work.

Periel Aschenbrand and Dan Naturman are joined by Noam Dworman, Carmen Lynch and Kruger Dunn. They discuss the title of Dan's upcoming special, Al Pacino and Dan's relationship status.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by comics Kruger Dunn and Carmen Lynch. They discuss Autism, Carmen's upcoming special and Al Pacino.

The Cellar Responds to the Inaccurate New Yorker Article with comedian Tyler Fischer.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Dara Gottfried. They discuss happiness, money, her new foundation and Dara regales with tales of Gilbert Gottfried.

Mike Vecchione is a stand up comedian based in NYC. He has appeared on the Tonight Show multiple times and has been on Netflix, Comedy Central and Hulu. He has also appeared in the movie The King of Staten Island. His comedy special, The Attractives, directed and produced by Nate Bargatze, is available now on YouTube.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand discuss John Mulaney's new comedy special, addiction and Alzheimer's tests.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with journalist and author of the book, Jackpot, Michael Mechanic.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by comic, Jason Salmon. They discuss Spirit Airlines, impossible choices, suicide and more.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Fredrik DeBoer, a writer and academic. He is the author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement.

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.

Tanael Joachim (TJ) is a stand up comic who grew up in Haiti. He is an Op-Ed contributor to The NY Times and his debut special, January 3, is available on Amazon Prime. He is a regular at the Comedy Cellar.  Joe Lindsley is an American journalist living in Ukraine and the editor of Ukrainian Freedom News. He was the long time protege of Roger Ailes.  

Eric Neumann is a stand up comic who made his late night debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in February of 2022. He is a regular at the Comedy Cellar and his most recent album / special is called, But Enough About Me: A Crowdwork Album.    

Sean Wilentz is a professor of American History at Princeton.  He is the author of numerous books including Bob Dylan in America, a consideration of Dylan's place in American cultural history.  Myq Kaplan is a stand up comic and Comedy Cellar regular. His numerous television appearances include: Tonight Show, Conan, Letterman, James Corden and more. 

Kliph Nesteroff is the author of The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy and We Had A Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy.    James Mattern is a stand up comic and regular at The Comedy Cellar. His special is called The Check Spot. 

Akeem is a regular at the Comedy Cellar in NYC, was a semi-finalist on Stand Up NBC, has been seen on Kevin Hart’s LOL Network and just recently made his television debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden. He is on the new season of PAUSE with Sam Jay. 

Michael Tracey is a journalist for Substack. Has written for the Wall Street Journal, NY Daily News, The Nation, The Spectator, and other publications. Sean Patton is a Comedy Cellar regular whose multiple TV appearances include Maron, Inside Amy Schumer, Fallon, Conan and many more. 

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand discuss abortion and the overtuning on Roe v. Wade with famed attorney, author and Professor at Harvard Law school for fifty years, Alan Dershowitz. 

Ryder Kessler is a Working Families Party-endorsed candidate for New York State Assembly in the 66th District. He was the founding CEO of DipJar, and since 2016, he has worked in Democratic politics to take back the House, Senate, and White House, with a focus on voting rights. He is a member of Community Board 2 in Manhattan and has written extensively about the need for more vibrant, equitable, sustainable neighborhoods downtown. Mike Feeney’s appearances include NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly, Barstool Sports, Fox’s Laughs, Funny or Die and more. His stand up special is called “Rage Against The Routine.” He is a Comedy Cellar regular. 

Authors Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx of That's Not Funny--which shows how much political and cultural power the right-wing comedy world has gained. Sienkiewicz is Associate Professor and Chair of the Boston College Communication Department and Marx is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University.  Dan discusses being rejected from The Tonight Show. 

Dr Jo Boaler is a Stanford Professor. Former roles have included being a maths teacher in London schools. She is author of 18 books, numerous articles and a White House presenter on women and girls. Her latest book is called: Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead and Live without Barriers. She co-founded www.youcubed.org, is currently one of the writing team creating a new Mathematics Framework for the state of California, co-leading a K-12 Data Science Initiative and was named as one of the 8 educators “changing the face of education” by the BBC.

Mike Pesca is host of The Gist,and guest hosts the NPR Programs All Things Considered and the news quiz, Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. His work has been featured on This American Life, Radiolab, and Planet Money. He has frequently appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and The PBS Newshour, and written for The Washington Post, The Guardian, GQ, Slate, and Baseball Prospectus. Tanael Joachim (TJ) is a stand up comic, a regular at the Comedy Cellar and an Op-Ed contributor for the New York Times. His first special, January 3 is available on Amazon Prime. 

Famed attorney, author and Harvard Professor and Comedy Cellar regular, comic Danny Cohen. 

Noam, Dan and Periel catch up: Dan gets to Vegas despite a cancelled flight, Louis CK's Grammy, Noam’s interview with The Hollywood Reporter about the slap, Justice Jackson, "Don't Say Gay" and more. 

A CONVERSATION highlighting the role of comedy as a political, moral and analytic tool in our time: Taboos are everywhere. Plain facts are being denied. Arguable propositions are foisted on us as if they were certainties. Decorum and politeness sometimes blind us or intimidate us or deceive us. The comic makes us laugh, for sure. But, in that act he also creates space for saying the unsayable. He has "plausible deniability." He can be a truth teller, a liberator, a sage... Featuring: Glenn Loury: Professor of Economic and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Brown University. Host of The Glenn Show podcast. He is among America’s leading critics writing on racial inequality. Roland Fryer: Harvard Economist, Macarthur "Genius" Fellow, Time 100 Honoree, McDonalds Employee of the Month specializing in Race and Education. Standup Comedian. Coleman Hughes: Writer, podcaster, rapper, and multi-instrumentalist who specialises in issues related to race, public policy and philosophy. Noam Dworman: Owner of the Comedy Cellar

Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by comedian Mia Jackson and Juanita Dworman to discuss the slap heard around the world.  Mia Jackson is a Georgia native now living in New York.  Her first half hour special is available on Epix and her second half hour special is on Comedy Central. She is a regular at The Comedy Cellar. 

Harrison Greenbaum is a magician and a comedian who began performing stand-up comedy while studying psychology and English at Harvard. He has been featured on numerous television shows, including NBC's America's Got Talent, NBC's Last Comic Standing, TBS's Conan and Comedy Central's This Week at the Comedy Cellar.  He is a regular at the Comedy Cellar. 

David Stone is a Comedy Cellar superfan. He has played in Scrabble tournaments since the mid-1990s and was once rated within the top 50 players in North America. Katie Hannigan is a stand up comic and actor. Her television appearances include The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central, Just For Laughs New Faces and MTV. She is a Comedy Cellar regular. 

Michael Mailer has been working extensively in the independent film world since graduating Harvard University. His first feature film, A Fool And His Money, starred Sandra Bullock and George Plimpton. Since then, Mailer has gone on to produce over 25 features. His father is the American novelist, Norman Mailer.  Nick Griffin has appeared on Conan, The Late Late Show, in his own half-hour Comedy Central special and was featured on The Late Show with David Letterman eleven times. He is a Comedy Cellar regular. 

David Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU.  He is president-elect of the American Philosophical Association.  He is known for his formulation of the "hard problem" of consciousness, which inspired Tom Stoppard's play, The Hard Problem, and the idea of the "extended mind", which says that the tools we use can become parts of our minds. Al Lubel is stand up comic and a regular at The Comedy Cellar. His special, Mentally Al, is available on YouTube.

Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world. He was a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School for  fifty years.  He has published more than 1000 articles in magazines, newspapers, journals and is the author of fifty books.

Frida Ghitis is a long-time world affairs columnist. She is a weekly contributor to CNN Opinion and World Politics Review and a contributing columnist for the Washington Post. In addition, she is an on-air analyst for CNN en Espanol, and provides her perspective across multiple television and radio outlets in the US and elsewhere in English and Spanish. Frida started her career at CNN, where she worked for almost 20 years as a unit manager, producer and correspondent. She has worked in more than 60 countries, in all corners of the world.  Frida is the author of The End of Revolution: a Changing World in the Age of Live Television.

Guests: Tanael Joachim (TJ) and Fred Kaplan.  Tanael Joachim is a standup comedian who has made appearances on Gotham Comedy Live on AXS TV and on Good Day New York on FOX. He is based in New York City but was born and raised in Haiti and is a regular at the Comedy Cellar.  Fred Kaplan is is the national-security columnist for Slate and the author of six books, including The Bomb and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, which was a New York Times best-seller and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He was the Boston Globe’s Moscow Bureau Chief and the Globe’s defense correspondent for a decade before that, during which time he was on a team of reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for a special magazine on the nuclear arms race. 

Coleman Hughes is a writer, podcaster and opinion columnist who specialises in issues related to race, public policy and applied ethics. He is also a jazz/hip-hop artist. 

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand discuss Joe Rogan, Covid and their lost podcast episode. 

Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand with Dov Davidoff.  His numerous television appearances include  Hustlers, Crashing, Shades of Blue. He is a regular at The Comedy Cellar.   

Al Lubel is a stand up comedian whose documentary, Mentally Al was chosen by The NY Times as best comedy doc of 2021.  

Zarna Garg is a TikTok comedy sensation with over 75 million views and 370k followers.  She is the winner of Kevin Hart's Lyft Comics comedy competition on Peacock and the winner of the 2021 Ladies of Laughter Newcomer Award.  She also won the Top Comedy Feature Screenplay Award at the 2019 Austin Film Festival.  The project is now in development.  She is a Comedy Cellar regular.  Uriel Epshtein is the Executive Director of the Renew Democracy Initiative dedicated to defending the values of liberal democracy in the US and around the world.   

Dr. Alina Chan is a co-author of the book, VIRAL: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, and a researcher with a background in medical genetics, synthetic biology, and vector engineering. At the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Dr. Chan is currently creating next generation vectors for human gene therapy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Chan began to investigate problems relevant to finding the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and in parallel spearheaded the development of the COVID-19 CoV Genetics (covidcg.org) browser for scientists worldwide to rapidly track virus lineages and mutations by locations and date ranges of interest.

Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with Nick Griffin and Ryan Reiss.  Nick Griffin has appeared on Conan, The Late Late Show, in his own half-hour Comedy Central special and was featured on The Late Show with David Letterman eleven times.  Ryan Reiss can be seen daily opening for Seth Meyers.  They are both Comedy Cellar regulars. 

Alan Dershowitz and Lara Bazelon discuss Ahmaud Arbery, Kyle Rittenhouse and Larry David. Lara Bazelon is an author and Professor of Law. She is also the Director of the Criminal & Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics at University of San Francisco School of Law. Alan Dershowitz is a prolific author and was a professor at Harvard School of Law for fifty years. 

Franqi French is one of 2020 Variety’s 10 Comics To Watch, reigning champion of Stand Up NBC and a regular at the Comedy Cellar. She can be seen on season 10 of Curb Your Enthusiasm. 

Ray Ellin is a comic and the Executive Producer of This Week at the Comedy Cellar on Comedy Central. He is the founder of www.comedycloud.co

Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching.  He has written for scientific journals and for popular outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of six books, including his most recent, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning Ray Ellin is an Executive Producer on This Week at the Comedy Cellar on Comedy Central and a regular at The Comedy Cellar. 

Bo Winegard has a PhD in social psychology from Florida State University. He is an essayist who is interested in evolutionary psychology, philosophy, and literature. Marcus Monroe is the recipient of the prestigious Andy Kaufman Award, regularly performs all over the country, has made numerous television appearances and is a regular at The Comedy Cellar. 

Gianmarco Soresi is a stand up comic, actor and writer. His special, Shelf Life, is available on Amazon Prime. He just started performing at the Cellar. 

Ismael Loutfi is a stand up comedian in NYC who’s performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Bill Burr Presents, and has a Comedy Central Half Hour special coming out soon. He has written for Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj and is a Comedy Cellar regular. 

TJ is a standup comedian born and raised in Haiti, currently based in New York City. He started performing standup in 2012 and quickly became a rising star in the NY scene due to his caustic wit, fearless approach, and conversational delivery. He's a regular in all New York comedy venues, including the world famous Comedy Cellar. His debut special January 3rd is available on Amazon Prime.

Katherine Dee is an internet historian and writer based in the Midwest. You might also know her as Default Friend on Twitter. Jordan Jensen is from upstate NY where she started started doing stand up then after a brief love affair with Nashville, she moved to Brooklyn where she was selected to be a new face of Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. She is a Comedy Cellar regular and opens for Louis CK. 

David Zweig is a contributor to the Atlantic, New York magazine, Wired, and the New York Times, among other outlets. He is the author of the nonfiction book Invisibles, and is working on a forthcoming book about American schools during the pandemic, called An Abundance of Caution. Dov Davidoff is a comic, an actor and a Comedy Cellar regular. 

Al began getting work at comedy clubs and within a year won the $100,000 Comedy Grand Prize on television’s Star Search. Doing the Tonight Show was a childhood fantasy so he auditioned and luckily became one of the last comics to appear with Johnny Carson. He then went on to make a bunch of appearances on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Late Show with David Letterman. He is the subject of a new subject of the documentary, Mentally Al. Jon Fisch is a Comedy Cellar regular and has a new album called HINGED. 

Michael Moynihan is a correspondent for Vice news and co-host of the Fifth Column Podcast. Alingon Mitra is Comedy Cellar regular who has performed on Conan, Colbert, and Comedy Central. He has also been a writer for Adam Ruins Everything and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

Linette Palladino is a Major in the United States Army and stand-up comic, who deployed three times in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and Inherent Resolve. As a stand-up comic, she recently competed as one of five nation-wide finalists in HBO Latino's stand-up competition. She has performed as far and wide as Iraq and Hong Kong. Jon Fisch is a Comedy Cellar regular. His newest album is called HINGED. 

Jordan Jensen is from upstate NY, where she started started doing stand up. After a brief love affair with Nashville, she moved to Brooklyn where she was selected to be a new face of JFL. She is Comedy Cellar regular and opens for Louis CK.

Sheba Mason is a NYC based comedian whose album was recently released called “Not Just a Whore.”  Danny Cohen is a Comedy Cellar regular.

Pete Lee is a comic. His new special, Tall Dark and Pleasant is available on Showtime Anytime. Ilya Shapiro is the Director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and author of Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court.   

Dr. Constantino Mendieta, who basically pioneered the Brazilian butt lift and comic and Trump impersonator, Bob Dibuono.

Isabel Hagen is a stand up comedian who’s been featured on the Tonight Show and the Just For Laughs festival, and a classical violist who went to Juilliard.

Kyle Smith is critic at large for National Review and for 12 years was a film critic and columnist for The New York Post.

David M. Buss is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Buss previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He is considered the world’s leading scientific expert on strategies of human mating and one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology.  His new book: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault (2021) uncovers the evolutionary roots of conflict between the sexes. Buss has more than 300 scientific publications. In 2019, he was cited as one of the 50 most influential living psychologists in the world.

Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand with Guest Zoe Strimpel, a columnist, historian of gender and intimacy in modern Britain, and author. 

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

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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.    

International and multilingual comedian Sugar Sammy is also a judge on France’s version of the hit show America’s Got Talent. He

Lara Bazelon is a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. She directed an innocence project at Loyola Law School and was a trial attorney in the Office of the Federal Public Defender.  Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, and The Atlantic Magazine. She is the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction.  

Justin Weinberg is associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He is also the editor of Daily Nous*, a popular philosophy news site. Nimesh Patel (Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers) is a comedian and writer. 

Bonus Episode #8 with Dov Davidoff

Professor Robert Plomin is a psychologist and geneticist best known for his work in twin studies and behavior genetics. His new book, Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are, that describes what he has learned after 45 years of research on nature and nurture.

Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason magazine and a nationally syndicated columnist who writes about drug policy, criminal justice, and civil liberties. He is the author of For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health (Free Press) and Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use (Tarcher/Penguin).

Bonus Episode #7 with Dov Davidoff

Former Styx frontman Dennis DeYoung is back with his sixth original solo studio, album "26 East: Volume 1.” He is a singer-songwriter, musician and producer. He is a founding member of the rock band Styx as primary lead vocalist and keyboardist. Dave Juskow is a comedian, writer and actor, perhaps best known for such televisions shows and films as Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, TV Funhouse, The Sarah Silverman Program and HBO's Crashing.  He is the host of the Podcast, The Nightfly.

Bonus Episode #6 with Dov Davidoff

Peter Singer has been described as the world's most influential living philosopher.  He is professor of bioethics at Princeton University, and the author of many books, including Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, One World, The Life You Can Save, and The Most Good You Can Do. Coleman Hughes is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at City Journal. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Quillette, The City Journal and The Spectator. He has appeared on many podcasts, including The Rubin Report, Making Sense with Sam Harris, and Real Time with Bill Mahr. 

Taylor Dayne is an American pop icon. Her groundbreaking debut single “Tell It To My Heart” turned her into an overnight  international star in 1987. She followed the smash hit with seventeen Top 20 singles over the course of her three-decade career and she has sold over 75 million albums and singles worldwide. 

Bonus Episode 5 with Dov Davidoff

Keith Robinson and Danny Cohen

Ted Lange, John Joseph and Black Lives Matter

Cellar Security Discusses the Police: Steven King, Sean Moore and Andre Garcia 

Dan Naturman, Periel Aschenbrand and Dov Davidoff

Astronomer David Kipping and Nick Griffin

Bonus Episode 3: Dan Naturman, Periel Aschenbrand and Dov Davidoff

Daniel Markovits, Meritocracy and the State of America

Howie Mandel 

A Frank Discussion on Floyd and Race: Seaton Smith, Myq Kaplan and Coleman Hughes

Lewis Schaffer

Bonus Episode 2: Dan Naturman, Periel Aschenbrand and Dov Davidoff

The Greatest Presidential Failure in American History with Bulwark Editor, Jonathan V. Last

World Experts Explain How Masks Can Defeat Covid-19

Periel's Book with Judge Bernie Fabricant

BONUS Episode: Dan Naturman, Periel Aschenbrand, Dov Davidoff

Ian Fidance and Michael Moynihan

The Arbery Case: Two top criminal attorneys join the crew to discuss the intricacies of Georgia Law in this tragic case. 

Mark Normand and Lindsey Jenningz

Alex Berenson

Chris Turner and Valerie Scott

Jeffrey Gurian & Neko White

Tyler Cowen, Yascha Mounk and Coleman Hughes

The Pharmacist

Brian Volk-Weiss

Kyle Dunnigan

Ross Barkan

Erica Komisar

Pete Lee, Pete Lee, Pete Lee

Dr. Satish Pillai

Dov Davidoff

Rob Long and Gary Vider

Jim Tews and Mia Jackson

Fred Kaplan and Eleanor Randolph

Laurie Segall, Oliver Polak and Danny Cohen

Dina Hashem and Victoria Cook

Caroline Aaron and Judy Gold

Cults and the Lucas Bros

Amanda Seales & Periel Aschenbrand

Lindsey Jenningz and Mike Cannon

Is Noam Dumb? 

Artie Lange and Robert Kelly

Michael Moynihan and Dov Davidoff

To impeach or Not to Impeach

Megan Daum and Erica Rhodes

Jackie Fabulous and Kelly Bachman

Tom Green and Graham Kay

Judd Apatow, Ricky Velez and Estee Adoram

Joe Machi and Jim Norton

Lauren Duca and Gibran Saleem

James Kirchick and Joe Machi

Hari Ziyad and Jeff Leach

Ben Gleib and Dov Davidoff

Marie Myung-Ok Lee and Josh Johnson

Jordan Weissmann, Alingon Mitra and Mark Normand

Jason Flom

Erica Komisar, Josh Johnson and Kevin Brennan

Marina Franklin and Keith Robinson

Judith Regan and Rosebud Baker

Arthur Brooks and Wayne Federman

Jeff Leach and Fred Kaplan

Jeffrey Gurian and Dov Davidoff

Matt Taibbi and Myq Kaplan

Noor Tagouri and Jessica Kirson

Gilbert and Dara Gottfried

Bret Weinstein

Greg Giraldo, Alingon Mitra & Nikki Jax

Nick Di Paolo, Keith Robinson and Gilbert Gottfried

Glenn Loury, Coleman Huges and Josh Johnson

Tyler Cowen

Adam Carolla and Outside Steve

Pete Holmes and Keith Robinson

Adam Savage and Rick Crom

Barry Marder, Rick Crom and Nick Thune

Neal Katyal and Alingon Mitra

Jessica Kirson, Joe Machi and Matteo Lane

Brian Volk-Weiss and Myq Kaplan

Alana Newhouse and Lenny Marcus

Jim Breuer and Todd Barry

Michael J. Fox

Gary Gulman and Joe Zimmerman

David Frum and Gibran Saleem

Chloé Hilliard, Keith Robinson and Sean McCarthy

John Stossel, Ryan Reiss and Keith Robinson

Kevin Nealon: This week at Caroline's

Sohrab Amari and Mehran Khagani

Anthony Cumia Discusses his Past, with Jim Norton

Noel Casler, Tom Thakkar and Pete Lee

Avi Klein and Ramy Youssef

Eman El-Husseini, Jess Salomon and Eagle Witt

Rebecca Trent and James Altucher

Professor Phillip Glenn and Comic Erin Jackson

Bret Stephens is an American journalist, editor, and political commentator. Stephens began working as a contributing columnist at The New York Times in late April 2017. He previously wrote for the Wall Street Journal as a foreign affairs columnist.   Nimesh Patel is a New York City-based standup comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.  

Jeremy Corbell is an American contemporary artist and documentary filmmaker, having produced several short and feature films. His most recent documentary, "Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers", premiered last month and is in theaters now. Sean Donnelly is a New York City-based standup comedian who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. He is also an avid UFO & extraterrestrial enthusiast. 

Jackie Martling is a legendary New York-based standup comic and was the longtime head writer of The Howard Stern Show on terrestrial radio. Rich Vos and Keith Robinson are legendary New York City-based standup comedians. They may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Artie Lange is a legendary standup comedian, actor, and radio personality. He was recently involved in a controversy regarding the Comedy Cellar and its show on Comedy Central, 'This Week at the Comedy Cellar.'  Ray Ellin is a New York City-based standup comedian and producer of the Comedy Central TV show, "This Week at the Comedy Cellar." He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.   Russ Meneve is a New York City-based standup comedian who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.  

Dahlia Lithwick is a Canadian-American writer and journalist. Lithwick is currently a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate. She primarily writes about law and politics in the United States.   Matteo Lane is a New York City-based standup comedian and regular performer at the Comedy Cellar.    Kristen Houser is a leading expert on sexual violence with decades of experience in the field. Houser is currently a lead spokesperson for RALIANCE, a national partnership working to end sexual violence in one generation. She provides expert opinion, context, and facts about sexual assault to media covering high-profile cases, including those of Bill Cosby and Jerry Sandusky. 

With Noam away, Dan Danturman takes the helm with guests Nick Griffin, Gary Gulman, Ryan Hamilton, and Mike Finioia!

Chemda Khalili is a singer and podcaster. She is the co-host of the long-running podcast, “Keith and the Girl.”   Sally Satel is an American psychiatrist, lecturer at Yale School of Medicine, and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She is the author of several books, including, “P.C. M..D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine,” and “Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience.” Her writing often appears in such outlets as The Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal, where she penned the article titled, “Does it Take a Shrink to Evaluate Trump?”  

Iris Bahr is a writer and solo performer. You may know her as the Orthodox Jewish chick on the ski lift with Larry David or her various alter egos including Svetlana, the Russian Madam and Rae Lynn Caspar White, the world's prominent Southern Intellectual and sexpert. She has written two memoirs, Dork Whore and Machu My Picchu and most recently she co wrote BOOK OF LEON with JB Smoove.  Lana Pelletier McCrea is a lawyer, activist, and Legal Director for SAFER. As an attorney at the Goddard Riverside Law Project, she fights for fair housing and represents tenants facing eviction. She was one of the two protestors outside the Comedy Cellar.

Roy Wood Jr. is a standup comedian and correspondent for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. James Altucher is a financier, former hedge fund manager, and author of 21 books. He is partial owner of the New York City comedy Club StandUp New York and is a standup comedian in his own right.

Joe DeVito is a writer and comedian. He has appeared on the Late Late Show and Fox News.  Mehran Khagani is a New York City-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Andrew Schulz is a New York City-based standup comedian who has appeared in such hit TV programs as Sneaky Pete and Crashing. His podcast is titled, "The Brilliant Idiots." Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Before joining Cardozo, Professor Shaw worked in the White House Counsel’s Office as a Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President. She clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Andrew Friedman is a writer and chronicler of New York City's restaurant industry. He has authored multiple cookbooks and nonfiction books, and hosts a podcast titled, "Andrew Talks to Chefs." He is also the author of a new book titled, "Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits, and Wanderers Created a New American Profession." He was quoted recently in the New York Times article, "Louis CK Performs Again, But Club Gives Patrons an Out."

Krystyna Hutchinson is a standup comedian and co-host of the podcast, "Guys We Fucked." Nathan Macintosh is a standup comedian who has appeared on Conan and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.  Kevin Brennan is a standup comedian and host of the podcast, "Burning Bridges."

Janeane Garofalo is a legendary standup comedian and TV and film actress. Chrissie Mayr is a New York City-based standup comedian. Originally from Long Island, she hosts the show 'Comedy at Stonewall,' a monthly show at the legendary Stonewall Inn.

Judy Gold is a legendary New York City-based standup comedian. She may be seen regularly performing at the Comedy Cellar.

Josh Gondelman is a comedian who recently won his third consecutive Emmy for writing for John Oliver. Sarah Cooper is a comedian and author of two books, "How to Appear Smart in Meetings" and "How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings". She also composed the viral article, "10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings." Mehran Khagani is a New York City-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Hannah Giorgis is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers culture. She composed the recent article, "Louis CK and the Missed Point of Redemption. Jim Tews is a standup comic, writer, and host of the podcast, "Quitting Comedy." Kate Meaney is a New York City-based college student who recently began pursuing standup.

Bari Weiss is an American journalist. In 2017, she joined the New York Times as a staff editor in its opinion section. Sean Donnelly and Veronica Mosey are New York City-based standup comedians. They may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Tom Shillue and Baratunde Thurston discuss the issues of the day, including, DNA, Trump, & Italian actress Asia Argento.

Dean Delray is a New York City-based standup comedian and host of the podcast, "Let Ther Be Talk." Paul Virzi is a New York City-based standup comedian and host of the podcast, "The Virzi Effect." Alvin Kuai is a New York City-based standup comedian. Tim Doner is a recent graduate of Harvard and speaks over 20 languages.

Tim Dillon is a New York City-based standup comedian. He hosts his own podcast called, "Tim Dillon is Going to Hell." He recently secured a pilot with Comedy Central Emma Willmann, Seaton Smith, and Joe Machi are all New York City-based comedians. They may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling is a legendary standup comedian and former head writer for The Howard Stern Show. Liz Miele and Paul Mecurio are New York City-based standup comedians. They may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Jack Holmes is an Associate Editor for News & Politics at Esquire.com, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P. Pierce. Gilbert Gottfried is a legendary standup comedian and film and TV actor. He may be seen performing at the Comedy Cellar, and heard on his podcast, "Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast."

Brian Scott McFadden is a New York City-based standup comedian and voiceover actor. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar Audrey Murray is a Brooklyn-based comedian and author of the new book, "Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men."

Ron Bennington, Jared Fried, and Allan Havey are all New York City-based standup comedians. They may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Jake Flores is a Brooklyn based touring comedian and host of progressive podcast "Pod Damn America." He's a former columnist at The New York Observer and works via a large following online and in the political left. He recently received an unexpected visit from Homeland Security for a tweet he composed about ICE.   Chloe Hilliard is a native New Yorker, comedian, and former journalist. She penned 7 cover stories while a staff writer at the Village Voice and now hosts her own podcast titled, "Social Misfit." Her debut book, "Fuck Your Diet," comes out fall 2019.   Wil Sylvince is a New York City-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Krystyna is a New York City-based comedian and one-half of the popular podcast, "Guys We F****d."  Jamie Lee is a Los Angeles-based standup comedian and star of the HBO series, "Crashing."  Chris DiStefano is a New York City-based comedian and co-star of the web series "Bay Ridge Boys."

Joe List is a New York City-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Sam Pressler is the Founder of the Armed Services Arts Partnership or ASAP, a nonprofit that helps veterans integrate into their communities through the arts and comedy. He started Comedy Bootcamp, the first stand-up comedy class in the country for veterans and their families.  Michael Garvey is combat-wounded U.S. Marine Corps veteran who is an alum of ASAP's Comedy Bootcamp course. Since graduating from the class, Michael has gone on to perform at The White House, the Warner Theater, and DC Improv. His PTSD service dog, Liberty, performs with him and writes his material.

Gary Gulman is a Boston-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing intermittently at the Comedy Cellar. Matteo Lane is a New York City-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Lea Palmieri is a Senior Producer for the website Decider and writer of the recent article, "Stand-Up Specials Should Avoid Politics -- and Stay Personal Instead."

Ross Bennett, Jon Laster, and Ian Fidance are New York City-based standup comedians. Jeff Leach is a Los Angeles-based standup comedian.

Derek Gaines, Keith Robinson, and Dov Davidoff are all New York City-based standup comedians. They may be seen regularly performing at the Comedy Cellar. Eric Peterson is a Washington, D.C.-based diversity consultant for the firm Cook Ross.

Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein are the authors of the book, "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes. It has been translated into 30 languages. Dov Davidoff and Keith Robinson are New York City-based standup comedians and actors. They may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Molly Mulshine is a New York City-based standup comedian and freelance journalist. She is the author of the recent Elle Magazine article titled, "Maybe She's Born With It. Maybe Sarah Huckabee Sanders is Propping Up a Bigot and the Joke Was Fair."

Rich Vos is a legendary New York City-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Mike Lawrence is a Los Angeles-based standup comedian and writer. He may be seen performing regularly over the next several months at the Comedy Cellar. Aman Ali is an award-winning storyteller and comedian in New York City. He is currently the producer of the documentary "Two Gods," about a Muslim mortician in New Jersey using the lens of death to teach young boys that their own lives are worth living.

Darrell Hammond is a legendary standup comic and former Saturday Night Live cast member. Ray Ellin is a New York City-based standup comedian who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. He is also an Executive Producer on the Comedy Cellar's new Comedy Central TV show. Kendall Ketchum is a standup comedian who frequently opens for Darrell Hammond around the country.

Jessica Kirson is a New York City-based standup comedian. She may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Emmy Blotnick is a New York City-based standup comedian and head writer of the Comedy Central show, "The President Show." She may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Michael Mittermeier is a Germany-based standup comedian. Robby Soave is an associate editor at Reason magazine. He is currently writing a book about youth activism in the age of Trump. He is the author of the article, "Trump Won Because People Were Sick of Political Correctness."

Judah Friedlander is a New York City-based standup comedian, author of the book, "If the Raindrops United," and star of the standup comedy film, "America is the Greatest Country in the United States." He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Ronnie Chieng is a New York City-based standup comedian and correspondent for "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah." He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Alan Dershowitz is a legendary American lawyer and is currently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He was the youngest professor in the history of Harvard Law School -- having assumed the position at the age of 28 -- and later served as the appellate adviser for the defense in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Nimesh Patel is a New York City-based standup comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.  

Joe Kashnow is a Baltimore-based standup comedian. He was injured by a roadside bomb in 2003 while serving in the armed forces in Iraq, and subsequently underwent a below-knee amputation. Keith Robinson, Jon Fisch, and Mehran Khagani are New York City-based standup comedians. They may be seen regularly performing at the Comedy Cellar.

Jackie Martling is a legendary standup comedian who formerly was a regular on the Howard Stern Show. He has been a standup comedian for going on forty years and continues to sell out shows around the country. Danny Cohen is a New York City-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Joyelle Johnson is a New York City-based standup comedian who recently appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers. She may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Noah Gardenswatz is a New York City-based standup comedian and writer for the television program, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." He can be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Jaye McBride is a New York City-based transgender standup comedian.

Ira Glasser was the fifth executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1978 to 2001. Des Bishop is a New York City-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Chris Gethard is a New York City-based standup comedian and host of the TruTV show "The Chris Gethard Show." He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Kyle Dunnigan is a Los Angeles-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing at the Comedy Cellar - Las Vegas's opening night. Dov Davidoff and Joe Machi are New York City-based standup comedians. They may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Catie Lazarus is a writer and host of the podcast Employee of the Month produced by Slate. Lazarus has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Funny or Die, IFC, The Atlantic Monthly, Marie-Claire, Out Magazine, Bust Magazine and still owes several thank you notes from her bat-mitzvah.  Keith Robinson, Veronica Mosey, and Rich Vos are all prominent New York City-based standup comedians. They may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Shailee Basnet is a Nepalese mountaineer turned standup comic. Sean Donnelly and Jon Laster are both New York City-based standup comedians. They may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Cipha Sounds is a New York City-based radio DJ and comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar and on the TruTV show, "LaffMobb's Laff Tracks."  Chris DiStefano is a New York City-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Jordan Carlos is a New York City-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Ray Ellin is an Aruba-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar and at his Aruba-based comedy show, "Aruba Ray's Comedy."

Carmen Lynch is a New York City-based standup comedian who performs regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Her recent album, "Dance Like You Don't Need the Money," may be found on SiriusXM and Amazon. Sheba Mason is a standup comedian and daughter of legendary comedian Jackie Mason. Anna North is a senior reporter at Vox. She previously worked as a writer and editor at the New York Times, Salon, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel. She is the author of two novels, American Pacifica and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. She is the author of the recent Vox story, "The Aziz Ansari story is ordinary. That's why we have to talk about it."

Damien Lemon is a New York City-based standup comedian and the host of the TruTV show, "Comedy Knockout." He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.  Kat Timpf is a New York City-based Fox News pundit and standup comedian.  Pete Lee is a New York City-based standup comedian who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. He recently performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Ryan Cassata is a 24-year-old Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter and transgender activist. He has appeared on TV often to speak about being transgender. He has also been the subject of a documentary titled, "Songs For Alexis," and starred in a movie titled "Collective Unconscious" that premiered on South By Southwest. His latest full-length album is called "Shine," and is available on iTunes and Spotify. Gary Vider is a New York City-based standup comedian. He may be regularly seen performing at the Comedy Cellar. 

Justin Peters is a correspondent for Slate Magazine. He authored a recent story on how he watched nothing but Fox News for three consecutive weeks. Ray Ellin and Paul Mecurio are New York City-based standup comedians. They may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Gilbert Gottfried is a legendary standup comedian who has appeared in films, television, and radio. He is the subject of a new documentary titled, "Gilbert." Carmen Lynch is a New York City-based standup comedian who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. She has a new album titled, "Dance Like You Don't Need the Money."

Neil Brennan is a prominent standup comedian, writer, director, actor, and producer. He was the co-creator of Chappelle's Show and was the star of the Netflix special, "3 Mics."  Erica Komisar is a psychoanalyst, parent guidance expert, and author with a private practice in New York. She consults for schools, corporations, and other institutions. She is the author of the book, "Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters."

Sopan Deb is a culture writer for The New York Times, writing about the intersection of politics and culture, among other topics. Before joining The Times, he covered Donald Trump's presidential campaign for CBS News from start to finish as a campaign embed. He covered hundreds of rallies in more than 40 states for a year and a half. He is also a New York City-based stand up comedian.  Jim David is a legendary New York City-based standup comedian. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Aparna Nancherla is a prominent New York City-based standup comedian. Her new standup album, 'Just Putting it Out There,' is available for download on iTunes and Amazon. Rebecca Trent is the owner of the New York City comedy club Creek & the Cave. Danny Lobell is a Los Angeles-based standup comedian. Before he moved to Los Angeles, he hosted a podcast in New York City with Dan Naturman.

The Louis CK discussion continues at the Comedy Cellar table

Owner of the world famous Comedy Cellar, Noam Dworman, is joined at the table by Cellar regulars and Guy Branum to talk about his article accusations from Vulture and the Cellar's impact on the current situations within the world of comedy.

Reza Aslan is an author, producer, and TV host. He is the author of a new book, "God: A Human History." Des Bishop is a prominent standup comedian who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Sean Patton and Mark Normand are prominent standup comedians who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Nate Andorsky is a co-founder Creative Science - a digital agency that leverages theories derived from behavioral economics to build websites, mobile apps and virtual/augmented experiences for nonprofits, foundations and mission driven companies. He was recently published in Forbes about his experience performing standup comedy with his article, "What Performing Stand-Up Comedy Can Teach You About Growing Your Business".

Des Bishop and Dov Davidoff are prominent NYC-based standup comedians who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Brandyn Heppard is a PhD candidate at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He is the chair of the Humanities, Social Science, & Education department and an assistant professor of Philosophy at Raritan Valley Community College, where he also serves as the co-director of RVCC’s Women’s Center. He was recently selected as a NJ Public Scholar by the NJ Council for the Humanities for his work on the philosophy of comedy.

Nico is the director of communications at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and host of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast. Originally from the Chicagoland area, Nico lives and works in New York City. Ryan Reiss and Andrew Schulz are both New York City-based stand-up comedians. They can be seen regularly performing at the Comedy Cellar.

Jonathan Haidt is a scholar, author, and social psychologist. He has written two books, including "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion."  Andrew Schulz is a standup comedian and co-host of the podcast, "The Brilliant Idiots." He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Paul Mecurio is a standup comedian and the host of the podcast, "The Paul Mecurio Show." He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

The Legendary Wid is a renowned prop comic from Philadelphia. He recently performed at the Comedy Cellar for Dave Juskow's birthday bash, on a lineup that also included Dave Attell and Artie Lange. Keith Robinson and Mike Vecchione are prominent New York City-based standup comedians who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Rebecca Traister is a writer for New York Magazine, where she recently published a widely-read profile on Hillary Clinton. She is the author of the bestselling book, "All the Single Ladies." Joyelle Nicole and Andrew Schulz are prominent standup comedians who may be seen regularly performing at the Comedy Cellar.  

Charles Wojcik is an up and coming comedian based in New York City. Prior to comedy, Charles served five years in the United States Marine Corps as an intelligence analyst. Mike Finoia is a comedian and producer of the TV series "Impractical Jokers." He can be regularly seen performing at the Comedy Cellar. 

Hasan Minhaj is a standup comedian and contributor to The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Margaux Ewen is the Advocacy and Communications Director for Reporters Without Borders US. Dave Juskow is a standup comedian whose live shows -- including the upcoming 'Grease is the Word' -- may be seen regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Ryan Hamilton is a prominent standup comedian who performs regularly at the Comedy Cellar. His new special, "Happy Face," is out on Netflix. Kat Timpf is an American television personality, reporter, and comedian living in New York City. She appears regularly as a panelist on Fox News. 

Bonnie McFarlane is a standup comedian and co-host of the popular podcast, "My Wife Hates Me." She may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Alingon Mitra is a standup comedian and frequent performer at the Comedy Cellar. Sheila Lintott is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. She was one of the conference organizers for "The Ethics and Aesthetics of Stand-Up Comedy," which aimed to bring together scholars and practitioners interested in stand-up comedy from a range of academic disciplines.

Lynn Koplitz is a prominent standup comedian who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Her new standup special, "Hormonal Beast," is available on Netflix. Jessica Kirson is a prominent standup comedian who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. She may also be heard regularly on "The Howard Stern Show." Dr. Nancy Segal is a Professor of Psychology at California State University, Fullerton, and is the director of the Twin Studies center. She is the author of the new book "Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts About Twins."

James Altucher is a former financier, hedge fund manager, and author of 18 books. A year and a half ago he threw out all his possessions and now lives in Airbnb's. Rebecca Trent is the owner of Creek & the Cave comedy club, located in the Long Island City section of Queens, New York. Ray Ellin is a prominent standup comedian who may be seen regularly performing at the Comedy Cellar.

Mike Fine is an American stand-up comedian, writer, producer, ordained minister, and star of the hit TV show PARKYA-CAR-KUS aired on JetStreamTV; a reality based show featuring the absurdities of finding a parking spot in NYC. Mike (also known as the CuddleStar) holds the world record for having cuddled over 10,000 women.   Gregg Rogell is a prominent standup comedian and a regular performer at the Comedy Cellar.     

Mike Yard is a standup comedian and regular performer at the Comedy Cellar. Krystyna Hutchinson is a standup comedian and co-host of the podcast "Guys We Fucked." Khadeeja Safdar is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Paul Mecurio is a standup comedian and regular performer at the Comedy Cellar.

Chris Gethard is a prominent standup comedian and a regular performer at the Comedy Cellar. He is the star of the TV show "The Chris Gethard Show" and the HBO standup special Career Suicide. Jared Fried is a prominent standup comedian and a regular performer at the Comedy Cellar. He is the host of the JTrain Podcast.

Rachel Feinstein is a prominent standup comedian who may frequently be seen performing at the Comedy Cellar. Leonard Ouzts is a prominent standup comedian and star of the new MTV show "Safeword." He may frequently be seen performing at the Comedy Cellar. Gigi Engle is a writer and sex educator. She writes for Teen Vogue, Marie Claire, Glamour, Bustle, and Ravishly. She is the author of the recent Teen Vogue article, "How to Masturbate If You Have a Vagina."  

Adrienne Iapalucci is a standup comedian and frequent performer at the Comedy Cellar. Joe Machi is a standup comedian and frequent performer at the Comedy Cellar. Lucie Pohl is a comedienne, actress, and the star of the new hit off-broadway solo comedy show Hi, Hitler. She has appeared in the films Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Not Fade Away, and The Odd Couple.

Pete Holmes is a standup comedian and currently the star of the HBO comedy series "Crashing." Andrew Schulz is a standup comedian who has appeared on the TV programs "Girl Code" and "Guy Code. He is the co-host of the podcast "The Brilliant Idiots" and may be seen regularly performing at the Comedy Cellar.  Bill Schulz is a former TV producer for the Fox program "Red Eye." Phil Hanley is a standup comedian and frequent performer at the Comedy Cellar. He is the co-host of the podcast "Keeping Joe."

Ricky Velez, Liza Treyger, Sam Morrill, Anthony DeVito, and Keith Robinson are all prominent stand-up comedians who may be seen regularly performing at the Comedy Cellar.

Veronica Mosey is a standup comedian who may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar.   Lynn Harris is an author, former standup comedian, and Founder of Gold Comedy, a standup comedy workshop for girls and women.   Carsen Smith is an intern for Gold Comedy and an aspiring standup comedian.

Tom Shillue is an American stand up comedian, FOX News Host, actor and storyteller. He is also an actor and TV personality, known for Red Eye w/Tom Shillue, The Daily Show and The Five. Tony Daro is a standup comedian and former TV writer for such programs as Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show. He can regularly be seen performing at the Comedy Cellar.  

Krystyna Hutchinson & Corinne Fisher are standup comedians and co-hosts of the wildly successful podcast "Guys We Fucked."

  Fred Stoller is a stand-up comedian, actor, author, writer, and voice artist. He is best known for portraying Gerard on Everybody Loves Raymond. DC Benny is a NYC-based stand-up comedian. He may frequently be seen performing at the Comedy Cellar.

Ann Coulter is a conservative political pundit, columnist, and author of 12 best-selling books. Bill Schulz is an American journalist and TV personality. Kevin Brennan is a standup comedian and host of the "Misery Loves Company" podcast. He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Wil Sylvince is a standup comedian and host of the Comedy Cellar's weekly "New Joke Night." He may be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Harry Enten is a senior political writer and analyst for Fivethirtyeight.com.

Artie Lange is a comedian and actor who has appeared in numerous radio and TV series, including the new HBO show "Crashing." Mike Vecchione is a standup comedian who may frequently be seen at the Comedy Cellar. Dave Juskow is a comedian and writer of the Comedy Cellar's live show "The Year of the Godfather." Paul Mecurio is a standup comedian who has worked on such TV programs as The Daily Show and The Late Show.

Jim Florentine is a standup comedian and the man behind the prank-call CDs Terrorizing Telemarketers. Ben Bailey is a standup comedian and the former host of the TV game show Cash Cab. Dave Juskow is a comic and the force behind the Comedy Cellar's 'The Year of the Godfather' series.

Jonathan Solomon is a Los Angeles-based veteran standup comic and stand-up teacher. He was on the original roster of Comedy Cellar comics from the early 1980s. Jermaine Fowler is a standup comedian and actor, and star of the new sitcom "Superior Donuts." Estee Adoram is the legendary Booker of the Comedy Cellar. William Stephenson is a longtime standup comedian who may regularly be seen at the Comedy Cellar. Mike Finoia is a standup comedian and Producer for the TV show "Impractical Jokers."

Ron Bennington is a renowned NYC-based radio personality and stand-up comedian. Ray Ellin is a prominent stand-up comedian and regular performer at the Comedy Cellar.

Chris DiStefano is a prominent New York City-based standup comedian who can be seen regularly at the Comedy Cellar. Lewis Schaffer is a London-based standup comedian. He remains an important pillar in Comedy Cellar history.

David Cay Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. He was recently featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, where he handed over a copy of President Donald Trump's taxes from 2005. Judy Gold is a standup comedian and two-time Emmy Award-winner. She can be seen regularly performing at the Comedy Cellar. Dov Davidoff is a prominent standup comedian and a regular performer at the Comedy Cellar.

Nick Griffin is a prominent New York City-based standup comedian. He can be seen performing regularly at the Comedy Cellar and on late-night TV. Rebecca Trent is the owner of the New York City comedy club Creek & the Cave.

Bret Stephens is an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2013. He works for The Wall Street Journal as the foreign-affairs columnist and the deputy editorial page editor and is responsible for the editorial pages of its European and Asian editions. Nimesh Patel is a prominent standup comedian who can regularly be seen performing at the Comedy Cellar. He was also a writer for Chris Rock's 2016 hosting of the Oscars.

Sam Morril and Sean Donnelly are prominent standup comedians based in New York City. They can regularly be seen performing at the Comedy Cellar. Lee Rowland is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. She also serves as an adjunct clinical professor for NYU Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic, and is a member of the New York Bar Association’s Communications and Media Law Committee

Lynn Koplitz, Jon Fisch, and Joe List are all prominent New York-based standup comedians. They can regularly be seen performing at the Comedy Cellar.

Dov Davidoff is a prominent stand-up comedian and actor. He can be seen regularly at the Comedy Cellar.  James Altucher is a prominent author and financier. He is the author of 18 books. His latest book, called "Reinvent Yourself," debuted in January 2017.

Ray Ellin is a NYC-based stand-up comedian and a frequent performer at the Comedy Cellar.  Lori Palminteri is a NYC-based stand-up comedian and a frequent performer at the Comedy Cellar. Elizabeth Bernstein is a relationship columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

Ryan Hamilton, Jon Laster, Joyelle Johnson, and Keith Robinson are standup comedians who perform regularly at the Comedy Cellar.

Chris Mazzilli is the owner of Gotham Comedy Club. Al Martin is the owner of Greenwich Village Comedy Club and Broadway Comedy Club. Rebecca Trent is the owner of Creek and the Cave comedy club. [Guest Host] Paul Mecurio is a standup comedian and regular performer at the Comedy Cellar. He has appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and his own Comedy Central special.

Russ Meneve is a standup comedian and a regular performer at the Comedy Cellar. He has appeared previously on The Tonight Show and Last Call. Carmen Lynch is a standup comedian and a regular performer at the Comedy Cellar. She has appeared previously on The Late Show with David Letterman and on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

- Lenny Marcus is a standup comedian and a regular performer at the Comedy Cellar. He has previously appeared on The Late Show w/ David Letterman and at the Aspen Comedy Festival. - Kitty Crystal is a NYC-based actress, model, and the Creator/Host of the Funny or Die series, "The Drunken Yoga Show." 

Janeane Garofalo is a longtime standup comic and TV and film actress. She has been a cast member of the Ben Stiller Show, The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live, and The Jim Gaffigan Show, among others. She has appeared in dozens of films, including The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Wet Hot American Summer, Romy & Michele's High School Reunion, and Reality Bites. She has been a longtime activist for progressive causes.

Michael Stahl is a freelance writer, editor and journalist based in Queens, New York, whose work has been published in several print and digital publications. He is a features editor at Narratively and the author of the recent Rolling Stone article, "How Trump's Win is Changing Stand-Up Comedy."  Jim David is a stand-up comic and a longtime performer at the Comedy Cellar.

Giulia Rozzi: Standup comic, host of the Brooklyn-based live standup show "First Set" Seaton Smith: Standup comic, frequent Comedy Cellar performer and host

Gad Elmaleh & Booker Estee Adoram

Danny Goldberg - Fmr. manager for Nirvana, Neil Young, and more

Barry Crimmins

Election Aftermath

Rich Vos and an ACLU Lawyer

Jeff Dye and Miss America

Moe Amer & Elon Altman

Mike Lawrence & Sasheer Zamata

John Fisch & Metzger

Chris Distefano and Noam's Wife Juanita

Huffington Post Writers and Godfrey

Hamilton & Albanese

Baratunde Thurston

Emma Willman, Wil Sylvince, and Michael Che

Russ Meneve, Richard Kline and Dave Juskow

David Rees

Sam Morril Letter

Bill Clinton's Joke Writer, Mark Katz

Trump Author Michael D'Antonio

Che & Cipha

Kelsey Cook

Tom Papa and Dov Davidoff

Colin Quinn, Ray Romano and Godfrey

Ted Alexandro and Mike Boschetti

Tom Rhodes and Dave Juskow

Wil Sylvince & Paul Mercurio

Gulman & Little

Ryan Hamilton and Liza

Robert De Niro, Nick Di Paolo, Jim Norton

Chris Distefano, Gary Vider, Models

Brian Koppelman

Jimmy Carr and Bobby Kelly

Kevin Brennan and Lenny Marcus

Big Jay Oakerson and Keith Robinson

Gad Elmaleh

Nick Griffin

Gary Gulman and Kyle Dunnigan

Pete Lee

Todd Barry

Jeff Ross

Pete Holmes