The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table

Mark Yosef is an attorney, comic and the new owner of Dangerfield's Comedy Club.

Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome? Spyer pushes back on some of the more extreme interpretations of Netanyahu's policies and comments. Also discussed: Human shields, Jihad, Camp David negotiations, and more. Spyer is a British-Israeli analyst, writer, and journalist of Middle Eastern affairs. He is director of research at the Middle East Forum, editor of Middle East Quarterly magazine

Shai-Li Ron, a student at Harvard as well as former spokesperson for the IDF, describes the current state of anti semitism on campus.

Comments: Podcast@comedycellar.com Controversial Professor Norman Finkelstein and Commentary Magazine writer Eli Lake debate the current Hamas-Israel conflict. It's quite a conversation. Check out Eli's podcast - The Reeducation, and Professor Finkelstein's many books, including Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom.

PEN CEO and author of the book Dare To Speak, Suzanne Nossel discusses the coverage of Hamas, the banning of books in school libraries, Twitter, and other free speech matters. Buy her book! https://www.amazon.com/Dare-Speak-Defending-Free-Speech/dp/0062966030

Columbia professor Khalidi felt this interview was an "ambush." You be the judge.  We discuss all matters Palestine. *Two clarifications: 1. I think we talked past each other a bit on the issue of "indigenous people." I wish I had that part to do over. 2. He said the Israelis were killed in "settlements," he didn't use the word "settlers". I don't really think there's a difference though.  00:00:1...

Greg Lukianoff is the President & CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the co-author, along with Rikki Schlott, of the new book, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Destroys Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution. Get Greg's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Canceling-American-Mind-Undermines-Threatens-ebook/dp/B0BTZT9PLM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20F3LOZX...

Noam Dworman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with journalist and editor Bret Stephens to discuss Hamas's attack on Israel. Bret Stephens joined The New York Times as an Opinion columnist in April 2017. He came to The Times after a long career with The Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently deputy editorial page editor in charge of international opinion and, for 11 years, the paper’s princ...

Ross Barkan is a contributing writer to the New York Times magazine and a columnist for Crain's. His Substack is called Political Currents.

Israel's preeminent historian, Benny Morris, discusses the latest Israeli controversies. He hasn't budged much...

Yascha Mounk, comes in to discuss his new book, "The Identity Trap," and much more.

Kyle Dunnigan is an Emmy, Peabody and Writer’s Guild Award winning comedy writer.  He stars in the Jerry Seinfeld movie "Unfrosted" along with a new cartoon series starring Adam Carolla. Kyle can also be heard regularly on the Howard Stern Show and the Adam Carolla Podcast, doing various impressions. Kyle has a significant online presence with over 1.3 million followers and was featured in The New...

Scott Adams discusses it all. Was the election stolen, why he was canceled and how to "reframe" racism, his new book Reframe Your Brain, media bias, conspiracy theories, Tucker Carlson, and more.

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with actor and comedian, Adam Ferrara.  Ferrara's multiple television appearances include the FX series Rescue Me, playing NYPD Sgt. Frank Verelli opposite Edie Falco on Showtime series Nurse Jackie, co-hosting the critically acclaimed BBC sensation US version of Top Gear and numerous others. His comedy album, It’s Scary in Here, debuted n...

Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the transformation of party coalitions and the future of American electoral politics. Before joining AEI, he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress from 2003 to 2022. A political demographer and commentator, Dr. Teixeira is the author of numerous books, reports, and articles...

Noam Dworman and Dan Naturman have a round table to discuss the episode with Philip Bump that went viral.  Eli Lake is a journalist and the former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek. Currently, he is a columnist for the Bloomberg View. He has, among others, contributed to CNN, Fox, C-SPAN and Charlie Rose. Created and hosted by Mike Pesca, The Gist is the longe...

Noam Dworman and Dan Naturman sit down with Daniel Drezner and Dov Davidoff. Daniel Drezner is Professor of International Politics, a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the co-director of Fletcher's Russia and Eurasia Program. He has written seven books and published articles in numerous scholarly journals. Dov Davidoff is a comic and an actor whose television...

Dr. Richard J. Haier is Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been teaching and conducting research since 1984. In addition to his many professional publications, Professor Haier's research has been featured on NOVA scienceNOW, NPR, CNN, and CBS Sunday Morning, and in numerous newspaper and magazine articles. Nick Griffin has appeared on...

Noam Dworman and Dan Naturman are joined by Dr. Louise Aronson, returning guest, psychiatrist Dr. Larry Durlofsky and comic, Maddie Wiener.  Dr. Aronson is a leading geriatrician, writer, educator, professor of medicine at UCSF and the author of the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life. Maddie Wiener was sel...

Noam Dworman and Dan Naturman sit down with world-renowned Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, Dr. Orna Guralnik. She is on faculty at NYU, co-founder of the Center for the Study of Dissociation and Depersonalization at the Mount Sinai Medical School and is featured on Showtime’s documentary series, Couples Therapy. Special guest Juanita Dworman.

Todd Barry is an actor and comic whose numerous television and film appearances include HBO’s Flight of the Conchords and Mickey Rourke’s deli boss in 2009 Oscar winner The Wrestler. His stand up appearances include The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and two Comedy Central Presents specials. He has a stand up special on Netflix called Spicy Honey...

David Folkenflik was described by Geraldo Rivera of Fox News as "a really weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty-palmed reporter." Others have been kinder. The Columbia Journalism Review, for example, once gave him a "laurel" for reporting that immediately led the U.S. military to institute safety measures for journalists in Baghdad. Based in New York City, Folkenflik serves as NPR's media correspondent...

Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with Jaye McBride. McBride is funny, smart and proudly transgender. She is the first openly transgender comedian to perform at Madison Square Garden and is a regular at New York City’s “Comedy Cellar." In 2021, she was featured as one of the "New Faces" at the Just For Laugh's Comedy Festival.

Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand sit down with comedian, writer and actor, Jay Jurden. Jurden was named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch in 2022, has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and is a Staff Writer for Apple TV+'s The Problem With Jon Stewart.

Noam Dworman and Dan Naturman sit down with Dan McLaughlin, senior writer at National Review online and a fellow at National Review Institute. His writings on politics, baseball and law have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and legal journals. They discuss responsible reporting, conspiracy theories and the Trump indictments.