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.
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.
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.
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 album called HINGED.
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.
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.
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.
Sheba Mason is a NYC based comedian whose album was recently released called “Not Just a Whore.”
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.
Dr. Constantino Mendieta, who basically pioneered the Brazilian butt lift and comic and Trump impersonator, Bob Dibuono.
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.
Kyle Smith is critic at large for National Review and for 12 years was a film critic and columnist for The New York Post.
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 scientific publications. In 2019, he was cited as one of the 50 most influential living psychologists in the world.
Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand with Guest Zoe Strimpel, a columnist, historian of gender and intimacy in modern Britain, and author.
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.
Patrick Sharkey is professor of sociology and public affairs at the PRinceton School of Public and International Affairs. He was formerly chair of sociology at NYU, where he taught for 10 years before joining Princeton. He is founder of americanviolence.org, former scientific director of crime lab new york, and author of the book Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
Mehran Khaghani and Lara Bazelon
Jeannie Suk Gersen is a law professor at Harvard Law School and a contributing writer to The New Yorker.
Myq Kaplan is a comic, his most recent album AKA is available now.
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 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.
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.