The Comedy Cellar: Live From The Table

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.”