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. H...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 22 min
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.
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 37 min
Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand discuss Joe Rogan, Covid and their lost podcast episode.
Jan 28, 2022•1 hr 12 min
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.
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Al Lubel is a stand up comedian whose documentary, Mentally Al was chosen by The NY Times as best comedy doc of 2021.
Jan 14, 2022•1 hr 12 min
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 d...
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 30 min
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 Co...
Dec 24, 2021•1 hr 17 min
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.
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 20 min
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.
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 12 min
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.
Dec 04, 2021•1 hr 13 min
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
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 13 min
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 E...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 10 min
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.
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 14 min
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.
Oct 31, 2021•1 hr 21 min
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.
Oct 23, 2021•1 hr 13 min
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.
Oct 16, 2021•1 hr 15 min
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.
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 13 min
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.
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 26 min
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 alb...
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 2 min
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.
Sep 17, 2021•1 hr 32 min
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.
Sep 11, 2021•1 hr 24 min
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.
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Sheba Mason is a NYC based comedian whose album was recently released called “Not Just a Whore.” Danny Cohen is a Comedy Cellar regular.
Aug 28, 2021•1 hr 1 min
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.
Aug 20, 2021•51 min
Dr. Constantino Mendieta, who basically pioneered the Brazilian butt lift and comic and Trump impersonator, Bob Dibuono.
Aug 13, 2021•58 min
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.
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Kyle Smith is critic at large for National Review and for 12 years was a film critic and columnist for The New York Post.
Jul 24, 2021•1 hr 1 min
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 ...
Jul 17, 2021•1 hr 24 min
Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand with Guest Zoe Strimpel, a columnist, historian of gender and intimacy in modern Britain, and author.
Jul 10, 2021•1 hr 7 min
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.
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 17 min
