845 Saturday with Comedian's Christian Finnegan and Ophira Eisenberg
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Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Lauded as “hilarious, high risk, and an inspiration,” Ophira filmed her comedy special Inside Joke, when she was 8½ months pregnant. The show’s material revolves around how she told everyone that she was never going to have kids, and then unexpectedly found herself expecting at “an advanced maternal age.” Inside Joke can be found on Amazon and iTunes, along with her two other comedy albums, Bangs!and As Is.
She has appeared on Comedy Central, This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, HBO’s Girls, Gotham Live, The Late Late Show, The Today Show, and VH-1. The New York Times called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with “bleakly stylish” humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine’s “Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny,” and hailed by Forbes.com as one of the most engaging comics working today.
Ophira is a regular host and teller with The Moth and her stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and in two of The Moth’s best-selling books, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible.
Ophira’s first book, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamyi s a comedic memoir about her experiments in the field as a single woman, traveling from futon to futon and flask-to-flask, gathering data, hoping to put it all together and build her own perfect mate.
She is also sought after as a brilliant interviewer and moderator, and has interviewed dozens of celebrities, writers, and actors.
Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ophira graduated with a Cultural Anthropology and Theater degree from McGill University. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is a fixture at New York City’s comedy clubs
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello my friends, surprise for the third Saturday in a row. |
| 0:05.4 | I want to make a surprise, I don't know if it'll be regular, but I've got a podcast |
| 0:09.3 | for you. |
| 0:10.3 | I've got a conversation with two hilarious comedians who I love to talk to and our |
| 0:14.0 | good friends of mine. |
| 0:15.0 | Christian Finnegan, Ophira Eisenberg, both joined me today Saturday for a great conversation |
| 0:20.8 | where we first talked about some serious issues regarding health insurance because Ophira |
| 0:25.8 | has lost it for a moment. |
| 0:28.0 | Her health insurance, not it. |
| 0:29.8 | We've all been there, not all of us, but many of us, it's terrifying, it's awful and |
| 0:34.0 | it's just a broken system. |
| 0:36.0 | We talked about some other current events, had some laughs, and I think you're really going |
| 0:39.7 | to like it. |
| 0:40.7 | Christian is doing a comedy special taping. |
| 0:44.0 | Next Thursday in New York City and Queens, if you are in or around, then go check it |
| 0:48.4 | out. |
| 0:49.4 | Alright, and also Ophira has got started a new sub stack to go with her podcast called |
| 0:53.3 | Parenting Is a Joke, subscribe to that, subscribe to new music for olds as well. |
| 0:59.2 | And yeah, let's do it. |
| 1:00.3 | How about it? |
| 1:01.3 | Let's get started right now. |
| 1:02.3 | Christian Finnegan, Ophira Eisenberg, I'm always recording, but this is where I decided |
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