The Comedy Cellar has a complicated history with women in comedy — and a present that looks different from that history. The room that was once almost exclusively male in its headliner slots now features a rotating cast of female comedians whose work is among the most important being made anywhere in stand-up. This page collects the women you’ll find on Mint Comedy’s Comedy Cellar stream, with context for what makes each of them worth watching.
Every comedian listed here is verified from Mint Comedy’s bio library or documented performance history. These are not suggestions. These are the women on the roster.
The Headliners
Nikki Glaser
Nikki Glaser is the most prominent female comedian working the Comedy Cellar circuit right now, and one of the most prominent in American comedy full stop. She made history as the first solo female host of the Golden Globes and has built a body of work — on Comedy Central, HBO, and through her podcast — that is both commercially enormous and genuinely artistically serious. Her Cellar sets are where she tests the material that eventually becomes the polished version the wider world sees. That testing process is visible on Mint Comedy’s stream.
Erin Jackson
Erin Jackson is one of the fastest-rising comedians in New York, and her trajectory shows no signs of decelerating. She’s been a writer on Netflix’s The Upshaws, appeared in Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready on Netflix, and established herself as a Comedy Cellar regular whose material is both structurally precise and genuinely personal. The combination is rarer than it sounds.
Jordan Jensen
Jordan Jensen was the first female comic to win “New York’s Funniest Stand Up” in 2021, released the Netflix special Take Me With You in 2025, and co-hosts the podcast “Bein’ Ian with Jordan.” Born in Ithaca, New York, she represents the generation of female comedians for whom the Comedy Cellar is not a male room they had to fight to enter — it’s simply where they work.
Liza Treyger
Liza Treyger‘s comedy is built on bravery — a willingness to say things audiences are thinking but wouldn’t voice, finding unexpected humor in relationships, family dynamics, and the way systems fail us. Her Netflix debut Night Owl (January 2025) is the record of that willingness at full length. Her Cellar sets tend to push further than the recorded material, which is why they’re worth watching live.
Sam Jay
Sam Jay served as a head writer at Saturday Night Live — the second Black lesbian to hold a significant role there overall — earning two Emmy nominations and a WGA nomination for her work including the celebrated “Black Jeopardy” sketch. Her stand-up practice at the Comedy Cellar is the other side of a writing career that has shaped some of SNL’s most discussed recent material. The stand-up is where she speaks in her own voice rather than through characters.
Rosebud Baker
Rosebud Baker made history as part of SNL’s cast and released The Mother Lode on Netflix in 2026 following her departure from the show. Her stand-up material developed at the Comedy Cellar long before and after the SNL chapter — the room is where she is most recognizably herself, unmediated by sketch format.
The Cellar Regulars
Sydnee Washington
Sydnee Washington is a born New Yorker whose presence and energy fill rooms considerably larger than the Cellar — which makes watching her in the intimate setting particularly rewarding. She’s one of the comedians whose material rewards rewatching: the construction is tighter than the delivery speed suggests.
Tina Friml
Tina Friml was born in Vermont — a NICU in Vermont, specifically, which tells you something about how her life has started. Her Comedy Cellar sets have the quality of someone who grew up at a slight angle to the culture she was eventually absorbed by, which is one of the most productive positions from which to observe and report.
Jackie Fabulous
Jackie Fabulous brings full-commitment performance energy to the Cellar stage. The intimate room amplifies commitment — there is nowhere to hide at close range, which means the performers who bring everything leave the room crackling. Jackie Fabulous leaves the room crackling.
Molly Kearney
Molly Kearney made history as the first nonbinary cast member in SNL’s 47-year history at the time of their joining. Their stand-up at the Comedy Cellar represents the most unmediated version of what they’ve built — the sketch format is a different constraint, and the Cellar is where the comedian performs without that constraint.
Rachel Feinstein
Rachel Feinstein has been part of the Comedy Cellar ecosystem for long enough to have accumulated the kind of room-specific reputation that only develops over years of showing up and doing the work. Her Netflix special Big Guy (2026) is the most recent record of that accumulated work in long form.
Jaye McBride
Jaye McBride is one of the Cellar regulars whose material draws on lived experience in ways that are both specific and universally legible — a combination that is harder to achieve than it sounds. She’s appeared on Netflix and brought that material back to the room where it was developed.
The Next Wave
The Mint Comedy bio library documents comedians at every stage of their career trajectory. The women who are building their names in the Cellar’s current moment — Kendall Ward, Olivia Flood-Wylie, Casey Balsham, Ashley Austin Morris, Mia Jackson, Ayanna Dookie, Laura Peek, Elle Orlando, Daniela Mora, Jenny Tian — represent the generation for whom the arguments about women in stand-up are historical rather than current. They are simply working comedians. The Cellar is simply the room where they work.
Judy Gold, whose bio notes a Rutgers University music degree in piano, represents an earlier generation of female comedians who navigated a different Comedy Cellar — one that required more navigation. The room she helped create is the room the current generation inherited.
Why This List Matters
The Comedy Cellar’s gender history is not simple. The room was associated for decades with a specific demographic of performer, and the arguments about that — who was in the room, who wasn’t, and why — played out publicly. The current roster is not an accident or a correction. It’s the result of a lot of comedians doing the work until the room reflected a more complete picture of what comedy actually looks like.
Watching Mint Comedy’s stream on any given night, the likelihood of seeing a female comedian on the lineup has never been higher. That’s a fact worth noting, and it’s the reason this page exists.
For the full Comedy Cellar comedian roster, see the complete guide to the Mint Comedy comedian roster. For the SNL connections specifically, see Comedy Cellar comedians who have been on SNL.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Comedy Cellar welcoming to female comedians now?
The current roster — documented on this page — answers this question directly. The Cellar’s present is different from its history.
Who was the first woman to headline the Comedy Cellar regularly?
This is a historical question that Mint Comedy’s bio library doesn’t definitively answer. What’s documented is who is headlining now and recently.
Can I watch female comedians on Mint Comedy’s live stream?
Yes. The lineup rotates nightly. The comedians on this page appear regularly. Check Mint Comedy’s current schedule.
