The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table

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To Mask or Not to Mask May 14, 2021

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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 and Brittany Carney May 01, 2021

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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.

George Floyd Apr 25, 2021

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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.

New York City, the Royals and Andrew Yang Apr 15, 2021

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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.

Comedy Cures! Apr 10, 2021

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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.

The Cellar Reopens! Apr 02, 2021

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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.

Patrice O'Neill - an Homage Mar 26, 2021

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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.

Spin Cycle Mar 21, 2021

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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.

Antiracism and Baby Skeletons Mar 14, 2021

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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."

BONUS EPISODE: Comedy, Antisemitism and the Woke Left Mar 06, 2021

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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.