The Comedy Cellar: Live From The Table

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bonus Episode 12 with Dov Davidoff 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Noam Dworman, Dov Davidoff, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand

Bonus Episode 11 with Dov Davidoff

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

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