{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"678 SUPD Hangout and Comedians Christian Finnegan and Ophira Eisenberg ","description":"Today's show opens with a segment taped in front of a live virtual audience of SUPD subscribers on Thursday, September 8 shortly after Queen Elizabeth died. We hear lots of insight from several thoughtful listeners and then I toss it to another great conversation with my special guests Comedians Ophira Eisenberg and Christian Finnegan Stand Up is a daily podcast that 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 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Christian Finnegan  is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in New York City. BUY HIS NEW ALBUM--- "Show Your Work: Live at QED" Check out Christian's new Substack Newsletter! What is New Music for Olds? This newsletter has a very simple premise: You don\u2019t have time to discover new music. I do. Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve discovered. Finnegan is perhaps best known as one of the original panelists on VH1's Best Week Ever and as Chad, the only white roommate in the \u201cMad Real World\u201d sketch on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show. Additional television appearances as himself or performing stand up have included \u201cConan\u201d, \u201cThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson\u201d, "Would You Rather...with Graham Norton", \u201cGood Afternoon America\u201d and multiple times on The Today Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and on History's I Love the 1880s. He hosted TV Land's game show "Game Time". As an actor, Finnegan portrayed the supporting role of "Carl" in the film Eden Court, a ticket agent in "Knight and Day" and several guest roles including a talk show host on "The Good Wife". In October 2006, Finnegan's debut stand up comedy CD titled Two For Flinching was released by Comedy Central Records, with a follow-up national tour of college campuses from January to April 2007. \u201cAu Contraire!\u201d was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2009. His third special "The Fun Part" was filmed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on April 4, 2013 and debuted on Netflix on April 15, 2014.   GET OPHIRA'S NEW ALBUM ! Youtube for the special : https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o-7qnFrSDhU Here\u2019s the pre add for Apple Music etc: https:\/\/800pgr.lnk.to\/PlantBasedJokes     Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian and writer. She hosted NPR\u2019s nationally syndicated comedy trivia show Ask Me Another (airing on 400+ stations) where she interviewed, joked, and played silly games with some of the biggest and funniest folks in the world.  Lauded as \u201chilarious, high risk, and an inspiration,\u201d Ophira filmed her comedy special Inside Joke, when she was 8\u00bd months pregnant. The show\u2019s material revolves around how she told everyone that she was never going to have kids, and then unexpectedly found herself expecting at \u201can advanced maternal age.\u201d 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\u2019s LOL Network, HBO\u2019s 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 \u201cbleakly stylish\u201d humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine\u2019s \u201cTop 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny,\u201d 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\u2019s best-selling books, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible. Ophira\u2019s 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\u2019s comedy clubs Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page ","author_name":"Stand Up! with Pete Dominick","author_url":"http:\/\/standupwithpete.libsyn.com\/website","html":"