The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table

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,...

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 woke...

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...

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 S...

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. M...

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 A...

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.