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 Social Justice Captured the Western World”. Andrew is the co-founder of Comedy Unleashed, a stand-up night in London.
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. Martin’s Press entitled ‘Road Dog’: Life and Reflections of a Standup Comic from the Road. He is a regular at the Comedy Cellar.
Sheba Mason and Ian Wehrle discuss their show, The Jackie Mason Musical.
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 AMY SCHUMER.
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.
A conversation about a piece Jed Shugerman co-authored in Persuasion magazine.
Jed Shugerman is a Professor at Fordham Law School. He received his B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. (History) from Yale.
Alan Dershowitz discusses trans swimmer Lia Thomas, Donald Trump and his newest book, The Price of Principle.
Mehran Khaghani is a standup comedian, emcee and actor. He is "remarkably gay" and of Iranian descent. He is a regular at The Comedy Cellar.
Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author.
Justin McKinney has had multiple performances on The Tonight Show, his own Comedy Central specials and consistently selling out theaters.
Stephen Merchant is an actor, comedian and director. With Ricky Gervais, Merchant was the co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series The Office, and co-writer, co-director, and co-star of both Extras and Life's Too Short. His show, The Outlaws is available on Amazon Prime.
Rafi Bastos is a Brazilian comedian, actor, journalist and television personality. He is one of the most well known and important comics in Latin America.
Jason Furman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Department of Economics at Harvard University.
He served eight years as a top economic adviser to President Obama acting as both President Obama’s chief economist and a member of the cabinet. Furman also served under President Clinton.
Myq Kaplan is the host of Broccoli and Ice Cream and his most recent album is called AKA.
Phillip Lopate is an American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher. He is a professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he teaches nonfiction writing. He is also Noam's elementary school teacher. He joins us along with John Engle, Noam's first friend.