Ophira eisenberg bio

Ophira Eisenberg is a comedian, writer, and host who relocated to New York in 2001 from Canada. She performs stand-up regularly at all major comedy clubs in the city and headlines theaters across the United States. Eisenberg tours as a host and storyteller with The Moth, a MacArthur Grant-winning storytelling organization, and is featured on their Peabody award-winning radio show and podcast, "The Moth Radio Hour."

Eisenberg's comedic talents are recognized in the realm of radio and television. She is the celebrated host of NPR’s comedy trivia radio show and podcast "Ask Me Another" and appears on various TV shows including Comedy Central's "Premium Blend," "This Week At The Comedy Cellar," "The New Yorker Festival," Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, HBO’s "Girls," "The Late Late Show," and "The Today Show." She is also a regular panelist on Hulu’s "Up Early Tonight." Her work has earned her a spot in New York Magazine's "Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny," and she has been featured in the New York Times for her "bleakly stylish" sense of humor.

Eisenberg's writing extends beyond live performances. Her comedic memoir, "Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy," published in Spring 2013, was optioned for a television series. Additionally, she contributed to five anthologies, including "I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics" and "Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled." Her latest projects include her comedy special "Inside Joke" available on Amazon, and her new comedy album "Plant-Based Jokes," set to be released by 800 Pound Gorilla Records. Her personal story about overcoming breast cancer is featured in The Moth’s best-selling book "Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible."

Ophira Eisenberg is a standup comedian, writer, and the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke with iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends. She also hosted NPR’s Ask Me Another where she interviewed hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Harris, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Awkwafina, Roxanne Gay, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler and more. She’s appeared multiple times on CBS’s The Late Late Show, Comedy Central, HBO, The New York Festival, Just For Laughs, Moontower, SXSW, and is regular host and teller on The Moth Radio Hour and her stories are included in three of The Moth’s best-selling collections, including the most recent: How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth. Her memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy was optioned for a television series, and her new comedy special Plant-Based Jokes is streaming on YouTube. Her solo show Leaving A Mark: A Comedy About Scars recently made its Off-Broadway review to rave reviews and won the Women in the Arts & Media Award for Solo Show Scripts.

Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR’s comedy trivia show Ask Me Anotherfor 9-years, where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, Jim Gaffigan, Michael C. Hall, and so many others.

As a comic and a parent to a 6-year-old, Ophira is the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke co-produced by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends Productions. The show launches on October 18th.

She can be seen live, regularly headlining across the United States, Canada, and Europe delivering her unique blend of standup and storytelling to a loyal fan base of smart, irreverent comedy lovers. She has appeared at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival, The New Yorker Festival, The New York Comedy Festival, Moontower Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, The Nantucket Film Festival, Women in Comedy Festival and more.

Her new comedy album at special Plant-Based Jokes is available on iTunes and is streaming now on YouTube. 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.” Her 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