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  <title>Comedians Christian Finnegan and Ophira Eisenberg together </title>
  <description>   Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 740 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls.       Ophira Eisenberg&amp;amp;nbsp;is a Canadian-born standup comedian and writer.&amp;amp;nbsp;She hosted NPR’s&amp;amp;nbsp;nationally syndicated&amp;amp;nbsp;comedy trivia show&amp;amp;nbsp;Ask Me Another&amp;amp;nbsp;(airing on 400+ stations) where she interviewed, joked, and played silly games with some of the biggest and funniest folks in the world.&amp;amp;nbsp;   Lauded as “hilarious, high risk, and an inspiration,” Ophira filmed her comedy special&amp;amp;nbsp;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.”&amp;amp;nbsp;Inside Joke&amp;amp;nbsp;can be found on&amp;amp;nbsp;Amazon&amp;amp;nbsp;and&amp;amp;nbsp;iTunes, along with her two other comedy albums,&amp;amp;nbsp;Bangs!and&amp;amp;nbsp;As Is. She has appeared on Comedy Central,&amp;amp;nbsp;This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart’s&amp;amp;nbsp;LOL Network, HBO’s&amp;amp;nbsp;Girls,&amp;amp;nbsp;Gotham Live,&amp;amp;nbsp;The Late Late Show,&amp;amp;nbsp;The Today Show, and VH-1.&amp;amp;nbsp;The New York Times&amp;amp;nbsp;called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with “bleakly stylish” humor. She was also selected as one of&amp;amp;nbsp;New York&amp;amp;nbsp;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&amp;amp;nbsp;The Moth&amp;amp;nbsp;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&amp;amp;nbsp;Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible. Ophira’s first book,&amp;amp;nbsp;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  &amp;amp;nbsp; Christian Finnegan&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;is an&amp;amp;nbsp;American&amp;amp;nbsp;stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in&amp;amp;nbsp;New York City.   BUY HIS NEW ALBUM---&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;Show Your Work: Live at QED&amp;quot;   Check out Christian's new Substack Newsletter!&amp;amp;nbsp;What is New Music for Olds?   This&amp;amp;nbsp;newsletter&amp;amp;nbsp;has&amp;amp;nbsp;a&amp;amp;nbsp;very&amp;amp;nbsp;simple&amp;amp;nbsp;premise:&amp;amp;nbsp;You&amp;amp;nbsp;don’t&amp;amp;nbsp;have&amp;amp;nbsp;time&amp;amp;nbsp;to&amp;amp;nbsp;discover&amp;amp;nbsp;new&amp;amp;nbsp;music.&amp;amp;nbsp;I&amp;amp;nbsp;do.&amp;amp;nbsp;Here’s&amp;amp;nbsp;what&amp;amp;nbsp;I’ve&amp;amp;nbsp;discovered.   Finnegan is perhaps best known as one of the original panelists on&amp;amp;nbsp;VH1's&amp;amp;nbsp;Best&amp;amp;nbsp;Week&amp;amp;nbsp;Ever&amp;amp;nbsp;and as Chad, the only white roommate in the “Mad Real World” sketch on&amp;amp;nbsp;Comedy Central's&amp;amp;nbsp;Chappelle's&amp;amp;nbsp;Show. Additional television appearances as himself or performing stand up have included “Conan”, “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”, &amp;quot;Would You Rather...with Graham Norton&amp;quot;, “Good Afternoon America” and multiple times on&amp;amp;nbsp;The&amp;amp;nbsp;Today&amp;amp;nbsp;Show&amp;amp;nbsp;and&amp;amp;nbsp;Countdown&amp;amp;nbsp;with&amp;amp;nbsp;Keith&amp;amp;nbsp;Olbermann, and on&amp;amp;nbsp;History's&amp;amp;nbsp;I Love the 1880s. He hosted&amp;amp;nbsp;TV Land's&amp;amp;nbsp;game show &amp;quot;Game Time&amp;quot;. As an actor, Finnegan portrayed the supporting role of &amp;quot;Carl&amp;quot; in the film&amp;amp;nbsp;Eden Court, a ticket agent in &amp;quot;Knight and Day&amp;quot; and several guest roles including a talk show host on &amp;quot;The Good Wife&amp;quot;. In October 2006, Finnegan's debut stand up comedy CD titled&amp;amp;nbsp;Two For Flinching&amp;amp;nbsp;was released by&amp;amp;nbsp;Comedy Central Records, with a follow-up national tour of college campuses from January to April 2007.&amp;amp;nbsp;“Au Contraire!” was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2009. His third special &amp;quot;The Fun Part&amp;quot; was filmed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on April 4, 2013 and debuted on Netflix on April 15, 2014. &amp;amp;nbsp;    Pete on YouTube    Check out all things Jon Carroll   Follow and Support Pete Coe   Pete on Twitter   Pete On Instagram   Pete Personal FB page    Stand Up with Pete FB page    &amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp;     </description>
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