The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table

By Comedy Cellar NetworkComedy News

Favorites
263
Followers
Typical duration
74 min
per episode

Based on Podcast App listening data

The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table episodes

March 28 Iran, Nukes and the Illusion of Safety | Nuclear Weapons Expert Scott Sagan
The Table is joined by Professor Scott Sagan - leading scholar of nuclear security and international relations.
Sagan explains that the biggest risk of Iran going nuclear is being missed. It's the threat of accidental explosion and even full-out nuclear war in the Middle East. In his view, this is especially true when small despotic nations get the bomb.
Scary stuff.

57 min
March 27 Brute Force vs Strategy — Iraq War Veteran Phil Klay on America’s War Thinking
Philip Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He is an author, a journalist and winner of the National Book Award. He currently teaches fiction at Fairfield University and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and other esteemed publications.
We discuss his recent piece in The New York Times, “Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/opinion/trump-iran-war-memes.html
1 hr 11 min
March 25 Is "Zionism for Everyone?” Tablet Mag Editor Alana Newhouse Makes the Case

Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tablet Magazine, Alana Newhouse. They discuss her recent piece, "Zionism is for Everyone."

Available on Tablet:
https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/zionism-for-everyone
1 hr 9 min
March 19 Before Facebook Existed: The TRUE Story of the First Social Network (10M Users in 1997!)
Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by social networking pioneer and entrepreneur, Andrew Weinreich.
Weinreich is known for launching SixDegrees.com in 1997, which is recognized as one of the first social networking sites. He has been named #175 on the Forbes 250 list of America's Greatest Innovators.
1 hr 23 min
March 12 The Truth Behind the Groyper Panic and Immigration and Iran
Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Eric Kaufmann. Kaufmann is the author of multiple books, including The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism. He is a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and director of the Center for Heterodox Social Science.
1 hr 9 min
March 05 Discipline, Screens, Genetics, Routine – What Actually Shapes a Kid? - Michaeleen Doucleff
Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman, and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Michaeleen Doucleff. Doucleff has a PHD in chemistry, has written for the NPR Science desk for 14 years, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Hunt, Gather, Parent. Her new book, Dopamine Kids, is out now.
1 hr
February 26 Epstein, Anti-Zionism, Major Questions Doctrine and the Comedy Culture Shift.
Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Jesse Brown. Brown is the founder and editor of Canadaland. He won the Hillman Prize for Investigative reporting for breaking the Jian Ghomeshi scandal and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Factual Series for the television documentary Thunder Bay. He is a bestselling author and reporter and host of the podcast, What Is Happening Here.
1 hr 14 min
February 20 NYC’s Only Ethiopian-Israeli Restaurant Forced to Close Due to Antisemitism
Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Beejhy Barhany. Hailed "Harlem’s queen of Ethiopian Jewish cuisine," Barhany is the owner of Tsion Cafe, the Ethiopian Jewish restaurant, where she recently ended dine-in service, due to anti-Israel harassment.
She is also the author of Gursha: Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens, from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond. The book has been heralded as one of the best cookbooks of 2025 by The New York Times and The Boston Globe.
1 hr 2 min
February 13 Epstein Journalist Says New Files Show No Evidence of Sex Trafficking Ring
While Noam is away, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by investigative journalist Michael Tracey to discuss the latest developments in the newly released Epstein files.
Tracey asserts that the popular narrative of Jeffrey Epstein running a vast international sex trafficking ring—especially one involving “elite” clients—is not supported by credible evidence. He says that the factual record doesn’t substantiate claims of a sprawling organized network. They discuss ulterior motives, questions about victims and what's fact and what's fiction.
Tracey has contributed to a wide range of publications across the political spectrum, from The Nation to The American Conservative, the New York Daily News to the New York Post, and many more.
1 hr 38 min
February 06 Inside the Mind of Tucker Carlson with New Yorker Writer
Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Jason Zengerle, political journalist and author of “Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind.”

Jason Zengerle joined The New Yorker in 2026, as a staff writer covering politics. He previously wrote for the Times Magazine, GQ, New York, and The New Republic. He is a winner of the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting and has been a New America fellow.

1 hr 19 min

About The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table

From the publisher's feed

For 30 years, New York's legendary Comedy Cellar has served as the launching pad for greatest stand up comedians in the world. Colin Quinn, Dave Chappelle, Ray Romano, Dave Attell, Chris Rock, Jon…