Mint Comedy streams live stand-up from the Comedy Cellar in New York City — and the comedians on that stage represent the full spectrum of contemporary American stand-up. From household names with Netflix specials to the working comics who are building their voice one Cellar set at a time, this is the roster of comedians you’ll find on Mint Comedy and what makes each of them worth watching.
The Headliners: Comedy’s Biggest Names at the Cellar
Nikki Glaser is one of the most talked-about comedians in the country right now. Her Comedy Central and HBO specials established her as a confessional, unflinching performer — but her Cellar sets are where she experiments with the material that will eventually become those specials. Watching Glaser at the Cellar means watching a comedian in the room where she works, not where she performs.
Jeff Ross is the Roastmaster General — a title that understates how precise and genuinely affectionate his comedy of destruction actually is. Ross’s Comedy Cellar appearances are often the room’s most electric moments because the intimate setting turns his crowd-focused style into something that feels almost confrontational in the best possible way.
Erin Jackson won America’s Got Talent and built a following long before that breakthrough on the strength of material that is both deeply personal and structurally impeccable. Her Cellar sets reward close attention — there’s more architecture in her jokes than a first listen reveals.
Mo Amer brings a biographical richness to stand-up that few comedians can match. Palestinian-American, raised in Houston, processed the immigrant American experience through stand-up in ways that have made him one of the more distinctive voices in the room. His Netflix special established the broader audience; the Cellar is where he keeps the material honest.
Godfrey is one of the most physically dynamic performers the Cellar stage has seen in recent years. His style — high-energy, vocally gymnastic, built on observation that accelerates into something almost surreal — is particularly suited to the Cellar’s tight room where every facial expression and gesture lands.
Gary Owen has built one of the most loyal audiences in stand-up through decades of touring and a point of view that has stayed consistent even as his material has evolved. His recent tour dates and Cellar appearances are worth catching for a comedian who knows exactly who he is on stage.
The Cellar Regulars: Comedians Who Make the Room What It Is
Liza Treyger is one of the sharpest observers of the comedy world from inside it. Her material has the quality of a person who has thought very carefully about what she actually believes and is willing to say it out loud regardless of whether it plays well. That’s a rare quality at any comedy club.
Yamaneika Saunders has a presence on stage that fills rooms considerably larger than the Cellar, which makes watching her in the intimate setting something like watching a force of nature in a small container. The energy compounds rather than dissipates.
Chris Redd built his reputation on Saturday Night Live and has translated that visibility into stand-up that is considerably more personal and textured than sketch comedy allows. Cellar sets from Redd tend toward the confessional — closer to what he is than what he plays.
Sydnee Washington and Tina Friml are two of the Cellar’s most consistent performers in the current moment — comedians who have developed a clear point of view and are performing it with increasing precision. Jared Freid has built a podcast audience and a stage presence that are mutually reinforcing — his Cellar sets have the quality of someone who has thought through his material in public for years.
Lucas Zelnick is one of the more interesting younger comics working the Cellar circuit — his style sits at an unusual intersection of observational and absurdist that doesn’t fully resolve in either direction, which is what makes it interesting. Tommy Brennan, known as the Bachelor of Comedy, has a persona that is both character-driven and personal in ways that take a few sets to fully appreciate.
The Next Wave: Comedians to Watch on Mint Comedy
The Comedy Cellar has always been the room where the next generation announces itself before the wider world catches up. The comedian bio pages on Mint Comedy document this ongoing emergence — the working comics who are building their voice one Cellar set at a time.
Jackie Fabulous brings a full-commitment performance style that the Cellar’s intimacy amplifies. Drew Dunn, Ian Lara, and Maddie Wiener each represent a different strain of the next generation’s sensibility — comedians for whom the Cellar is both proving ground and home room.
Mint Comedy’s 2026 comics to watch list captures the broader emerging talent pool — the comedians who are building the reputation that will eventually make them the names in the headliner section of this page.
The Comedy Cellar’s Most Celebrated Performers
Beyond the regulars, the Comedy Cellar’s history is defined by the comedians who treated it as their creative home during the periods when they were producing their most important work. Mint Comedy’s coverage of comedians who protect their classic material and comedy duos who have mastered on-stage chemistry provides context for understanding how the Cellar’s roster has shaped the broader comedy ecosystem.
The 2026 stand-up special season — the Netflix and HBO releases that mark the current moment in comedy — is full of comedians who developed the specials’ material on the Comedy Cellar stage. That’s the room’s function: it’s where the best material in the world gets made before the world gets to see it.
How to Watch These Comedians on Mint Comedy
Mint Comedy streams the Comedy Cellar live. The show lineup rotates nightly — the comedians listed on this page appear regularly but not on a fixed schedule. The only way to catch a specific comedian is to watch the stream regularly, check Mint Comedy’s schedule, or be the kind of person who treats a live stream of the world’s best comedy room as appointment television. That’s a reasonable choice.
For new subscribers trying to understand the room before diving in, Mint Comedy’s guide to how crowd work actually works and the breakdown of what makes the Comedy Cellar the best comedy club in NYC provide the frame that makes individual sets more legible.
Frequently Asked Questions — Mint Comedy Comedians
How do I know which comedians are performing on a given night?
Mint Comedy publishes the scheduled lineup, though the Comedy Cellar’s drop-in culture means the actual show often includes unannounced performers. The scheduled lineup is the floor, not the ceiling.
Can I see comedian bios for everyone who performs at the Comedy Cellar?
Mint Comedy maintains an extensive library of comedian profiles covering both the headliners and the working comics who make up the Cellar’s rotating roster. Browse the full comedian directory on the Mint Comedy site.
Are these comedians exclusively performing at the Comedy Cellar?
No. These comedians tour, record specials, and perform at venues around the country. The Comedy Cellar is where they work — the place where they develop material that eventually appears everywhere else.
