The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table

Alan Dershowitz

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. 

Raanan Hershberg is a comedian who has performed on The Late, Late Show with James Corden and Comedy Central.   Misty Marris is a trial attorney based in New York City specializing in the defense of clients in entertainment, sports, employment, civil rights and sexual assault/abuse cases. Misty appears as an independent legal analyst on a variety of news networks including Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, HLN and NBC covering of the moment cases and legal  issues.

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. 

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.

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.

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.   

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.

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.