The Comedy Cellar: Live From The Table

A new documentary maintains that Derek Chauvin was not given a fair trial. We interview doc creator Liz Collin. In my view this is as much about the trial as it is the right to discuss it. You be the judge. Here is a folder of some docs, including the Minnesota training manual. I do NOT endorse or know the reliability of these studies. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10MnO6P-T6z5SVtveGKKACBuueJzU80Xf?usp=drive_link Doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFPi3EigjFA&t=3414s Comments to podcast@comedycellar.com

Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson is a journalist, teacher, and rabbi. He is the author of ten books, including The Heresy of Jacob Frank, which won the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for scholarship.  He holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and nondenominational rabbinic ordination.  Jay is a frequent commentator on CNN and a contributor to Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, The Forward, and other publications. Dr. Michaelson worked as an LGBTQ activist for ten years and has been included in the ‘Forward 50’ list of influential American Jews.  

Stand up comedian Tina Friml uses animated optimism and fearless honesty about the social assumptions that come with living with cerebral palsy. She has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central, and The Drew Barrymore Show

He walks off after about 35 minutes of a 60-minute interview. In our view, this is an expose of the deep bias that permeates Human Rights Watch. You be the judge. Roth even goes as far as to claim that Israeli soldiers knowingly shot at people speaking in Hebrew. Ironically, we also offer an apology to Norman Finkelstein here. This is quite an episode. 04:44 Dershowitz was unfair to Finkelstein 13:05 Roth Intro 16:02 Proportionality 47:59 Israel Shoots White Flags and its Own Hostages Podcast@ComedyCellar.com Chairman of HRW repudiates Ken Roth: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opinion/20bernstein.html Danielle Haas HRW letter or resignation: https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1727452511408152934 HRW on Palestinian White Flag Deaths: https://www.hrw.org/report/2009/08/13/white-flag-deaths/killings-palestinian-civilians-during-operation-cast-lead HRW on Iraq: https://www.hrw.org/report/2003/12/11/target/conduct-war-and-civilian-casualties-iraq HRW - Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: https://www.hrw.org/le

Clayton Fletcher is a comedian, poker dude and author of "The ROI of LOL." Ray Ellin is a comedian, host and producer and the owner of Aruba Ray's Comedy Club.

Matan Peretz is stand up comedian, social media influencer and an active IDF soldier in the army reserves.

Laura High is a New York actor and comedian. She has been featured on the New York Comedy Festival and won the 'Broadly Funny' Divison at the 360 Stand Up Festival. Laura is a rising content creator and has gone viral several times on TikTok.

Aaron David Miller is an American Middle East analyst, author and negotiator. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has been an advisor to both Republican and Democratic secretaries of state and his articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Policy, USAToday and CNN.com.

A freewheeling debate on a lot of matters. Check out our YouTube page for sources and fact-checking matters. https://youtu.be/F1GkOhvscVY

Noam Dworman sits down with Philip Bump and Dov Davidoff.  Philip Bump is a national columnist for The Washington Post; before that he led political coverage for The Atlantic Wire. One of the paper’s most read writers, he focuses on the data behind polls and political rhetoric. Dov Davidoff is a comic and an actor whose television appearances include The Tonight Show, Crashing and numerous others. He is regular at The Comedy Cellar.

Coleman Hughes and Michael Moynihan join for a quick conversation addressing some of Norman Finkelstein's main arguments.

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. Haidt is the author of multiple books including the forthcoming, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.

Daniel-Ryan Spaulding is a world-traveling comedian, TV writer and social media influencer. He has been described by Huffington Post as “brilliantly subversive,” and has a one-man show called 'Power Gay.' His special, 'So Berlin,' is available on YouTube.

Dan Senor, the author of the new book "The Genius of Israel", is a columnist, writer, and political adviser. We discuss Israeli society during the war, the effect on American politics, Biden's hopes for reelection, and much more.

Alan Dershowitz has been called 'the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer' and one of its 'most distinguished defenders of individual rights,' 'the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,' 'the top lawyer of last resort,' and 'America's most public Jewish defender.' He is the author of forty books including seven bestsellers.

This is a version of a debate originally aired on Live From America. See an extensively sourced version on YouTube https://youtu.be/XuDK8nyyT2I

Liel Leibovitz is editor-at-large for Tablet Magazine, host of its weekly culture podcast, Unorthodox, and author of the new book, How the Talmud Can Change Your Life.

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.