I talk to Noam Dworman, owner of the Comedy Cellar about censorship, starting and running a small family-owned business, freedom of information vs. freedom of speech (which is more important?) and... Louis C.K.'s return to the stage. Some background:...
I talk to Noam Dworman, owner of the Comedy Cellar about censorship, starting and running a small family-owned business, freedom of information vs. freedom of speech (which is more important?) and... Louis C.K.'s return to the stage. Some background: a few weeks ago, Louis C.K. showed up at the Comedy Cellar. Noam wasn't there. He got a text. "Louis's here." He saw it the next morning. Now everyone is asking Noam, "Where do you draw the line?" He's gotten death threats. I told Noam “When we were growing up no one had peanut allergies. A generation later, because we’ve disinfected everything, millions of kids have peanut allergies. And now, people are allergic to language. It doesn’t seem like this trend ever reverses. First, we were disinfecting our food. Now we’re disinfecting language. What’s next?"
Links and Resources
Comedy Cellar
Also Mentioned
Fat Black Pussy Cat
Village Underground
Cafe Wha?
Bill Grundfest
Gilbert Gottfried
John Stewart
Bill Marr
Ray Ramano
Larry David
Michael Che
Chapelle
Allan Havey
Malcolm Gladwell
The Comedy Channel
Jerry Seinfeld’s Documentary “Comedian”
“Tough Crowd”
Amy Schumer
Chris Rock
Dave Patel
Joe Machi
Gary Shandling
Robert Kline
Harvey weinstein
Bill Cosby
Aziz Ansari
Fable: The Emperor’s New Clothes
Jim Gaffigan
Norm MacDonald
Roseanne
“The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure” by Greg Lukianoff
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