Reboot Presents: Replay

Steve Bodow is a 14-time Emmy-winning writer and producer, having served as EP and showrunner of Netflix’s Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, following 13 years at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as an EP, head writer and staff writer. Bodow also co-edited and co-wrote the Daily Show’s three best-selling books, America: The Book; Earth: The Book; and The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library. The Trump Twitter Library also became a live installation event, touring the US and winning a Cannes Lions Grand Prix. 

In 2021, Bodow created and coordinated “Climate Night,” a one-night event where seven major American late-night shows devoted their airtime to climate issues, reaching more than 20 million viewers.

Bodow is a founding member and a past artistic director of Elevator Repair Service,[1] the New York theater group best known for Gatz, its full-text adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which played sold-out runs at NYC’s Public Theater, London’s Old Vic, and in more than 25 other cities globally.

In addition to Reboot, he sits on the boards of ERS and The Onion‘s parent company, Global Tetrahedron.

View full profile

Dan Crane is a journalist, musician, Jew (lax, loves lox) and retired professional air-guitarist. He writes about culture and travel for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, California Sunday, Slate, and numerous other publications. He’s the author of “To Air is Human” and stars in the documentary, Air Guitar Nation.

View full profile

Jessie Kahnweiler’s films have been featured everywhere from The New York Times to the Cannes Film Festival. She wrote, directed, and starred in The Skinny, a dark comedic series based on her 10-year relationship with bulimia. The Skinny was produced by Joey Soloway, Paul Young, and Refinery29. It premiered at Sundance and won a Webby for best series. Kahnweiler also developed Viagra Diaries for CW, Bump for ABC Digital, and staffed on Skam AUSTIN for Facebook Watch. Fox Digital commissioned Jessie to write and direct the comedic thriller Retreat which premiered on Hulu. Currently she is developing a TV series about Jewish Polish teenagers during Hitler’s rise to power and a musical about Anne Frank. She lives in LA with her cat.

View full profile

Rabbi David Kasher grew up bouncing back and forth between the Bay Area and Brooklyn, hippies and Hassidim – and has been trying to synthesize these two worlds ever since. After graduating from college at Wesleyan University in 1998, he studied for several years in yeshivot in Israel before heading off to rabbinical school at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York. He was ordained there in 2007, and returned to Northern California, where he completed a doctoral degree at Berkeley Law. He has served on the faculty of Berkeley Law, the Wexner Heritage Program, Reboot, and BINA: The Secular Yeshiva, and also taught courses at Pardes, SVARA, The Hartman Institute, AJR and HUC.

Rabbi Kasher is a teacher of nearly all forms of classical Jewish literature, but his greatest passion is Torah commentary, and he spent five years producing the weekly ParshaNut blog and podcast exploring the riches of the genre. In 2018, he began work as an Associate Rabbi at IKAR, a non-denominational spiritual community in Los Angeles, where he now teaches a weekly parsha class and has a new parsha podcast called, ‘Best Book Ever.’ He just published his first book, ParshaNut: 54 Journeys Into the World of Torah Commentary.

View full profile

Moshe Kasher has written for several films, series, and specials including Betty for HBO, Little America for Apple, Wet Hot American Summer for Netflix, Another Period, the Comedy Central Roasts for Comedy Central, and ZOOLANDER 2. Last year, Moshe and his wife Natasha Leggero released a three-part comedy special for Netflix, “The Honeymoon Stand-Up Special” – based off of their wildly successful podcast entitled The Endless Honeymoon. He also co-hosted the popular podcast The Champs and is the host of The Hound Tall Discussion Series on the Nerdist Network.

Additionally, Moshe can be seen in his 2017 Comedy Central talk show, Problematic with Moshe Kasher. Named one of Variety’s “10 Comics To Watch,” he makes frequent appearances on This Is Not Happening and Drunk History and has also appeared on the series Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, @midnight with Chris Hardwick, and The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. Kasher has also had roles on Portlandia, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The League, Shameless, Maron, Garfunkel and Oates, and The New Normal.

Earlier in his career, Moshe wrote the 2012 memoir Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 and had his first Netflix special debut – Moshe Kasher: Live in Oakland.

View full profile