Periel aschenbrand biography channel

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Periel Aschenbrand is a force to be reckoned with. She has penned two savagely funny and revealing memoirs, The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own and On My Knees.

She recalls her Jewish upbringing in Queens, with a neurotic Israeli mother and laid-back dad, who played old-timey stand-up comics on vinyl records.

Aschenbrand was always a rebel, sneaking out to party in Manhattan from a young age.

Obsessed with the comedy world since her adolescence, now as a published author and producer, Aschenbrand co-founded a stand-up comedy series with Iris Bahr (Curb Your Enthusiasm) called “Just the Tip,” which lives up to its raunchy, raucous name, at Gold Bar in New York City.

She also produces Live from the Table, the Comedy Cellar’s podcast.

“They usually only let comics sit there, but I get to sit there,” says Aschenbrand of recording live from The Comedy Cellar’s table, which has seated such comics as Sarah Silve