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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 52 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 | Stand up. |
0:02.0 | Well, hello there, welcome to your Wednesday, if you're listening on the 22nd of November, |
0:07.0 | the day before Thanksgiving, it's Thanksgiving week, |
0:10.0 | and I'm very excited that I've got the hilarious and always very thoughtful and brilliant. |
0:14.8 | Ophira Eisenberg, comedian Ophira Eisenberg joins me again, the host of Parenting |
0:20.2 | Is a Joke podcast, former host of Ask Me Another on NPR. It's always a great day |
0:27.4 | when Oferes Stop Spy has been way too long since we've spoken and I think you're going to love our conversation but I do want to make sure you know that I am hosting a |
0:37.6 | Thanksgiving themed hangout this evening that means nothing just a regular hangout but it's Thanksgiving themed if you want it to be. |
0:45.2 | How about this? |
0:46.2 | Bring some new people by. |
0:47.7 | Maybe you've got some friends or loved ones in town that you are spending Thanksgiving |
0:52.2 | with and you want to bring them by the hangout. |
0:55.0 | We always love to meet new people. |
0:56.8 | We welcome new people and of course new subscribers to the hangout each and every week. |
1:01.2 | So stop by 8 p.m. east tonight I hope to see you there I am |
1:05.7 | posting a little bit lighter than I do most weeks this game Thanksgiving week |
1:10.6 | because Ava's home my parents are coming down of course it is |
1:13.9 | Thanksgiving so taking it a little bit easier but I do have some news that I love to |
1:19.1 | read and mention here at the top including just that you know you're going to be probably traveling |
1:24.0 | for Thanksgiving and so I want to thank you for listening and supporting this |
1:28.5 | podcast tell you friends some of your favorite episode to listen to, but guess what? |
1:34.0 | It's going to be record crowds expected to take to the air and roads this year, |
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