{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 724 Ophira Eisenberg and Christian Finnegan","description":"  TGIF AM I RITE?&amp;nbsp; Hello Friends! I think you will love today's conversation with Christian and Ophira. I had a great time at last nights hangout with over 50 listener\/subscribers!&amp;nbsp; 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$&amp;nbsp;and gain access to a community of over 740 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls. We used to be 800 so lets get back up there! Check out&amp;nbsp;StandUpwithPete.com&amp;nbsp;to learn more  GET OPHIRA'S NEW ALBUM ! Youtube for the special :&amp;nbsp;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o-7qnFrSDhU Here\u2019s the pre add for Apple Music etc:&amp;nbsp;https:\/\/800pgr.lnk.to\/PlantBasedJokes &amp;nbsp; Check out her new Podcast &quot;Parenting is a Joke&quot;&amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp;      Ophira Eisenberg&amp;nbsp;is a Canadian-born standup comedian and writer.&amp;nbsp;She hosted NPR\u2019s&amp;nbsp;nationally syndicated&amp;nbsp;comedy trivia show&amp;nbsp;Ask Me Another&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;nbsp;   Lauded as \u201chilarious, high risk, and an inspiration,\u201d Ophira filmed her comedy special&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;Inside Joke&amp;nbsp;can be found on&amp;nbsp;Amazon&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;iTunes, along with her two other comedy albums,&amp;nbsp;Bangs!and&amp;nbsp;As Is. She has appeared on Comedy Central,&amp;nbsp;This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart\u2019s&amp;nbsp;LOL Network, HBO\u2019s&amp;nbsp;Girls,&amp;nbsp;Gotham Live,&amp;nbsp;The Late Late Show,&amp;nbsp;The Today Show, and VH-1.&amp;nbsp;The New York Times&amp;nbsp;called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with \u201cbleakly stylish\u201d humor. She was also selected as one of&amp;nbsp;New York&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;The Moth&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible. Ophira\u2019s first book,&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\u2019s comedy clubs   Christian Finnegan&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;is an&amp;nbsp;American&amp;nbsp;stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in&amp;nbsp;New York City.    BUY HIS NEW ALBUM---&amp;nbsp;&quot;Show Your Work: Live at QED&quot; Check out Christian's new Substack Newsletter!&amp;nbsp;What is New Music for Olds?  This newsletter has a very simple premise:&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;VH1's&amp;nbsp;Best&amp;nbsp;Week&amp;nbsp;Ever&amp;nbsp;and as Chad, the only white roommate in the \u201cMad Real World\u201d sketch on&amp;nbsp;Comedy Central's&amp;nbsp;Chappelle's&amp;nbsp;Show. Additional television appearances as himself or performing stand up have included \u201cConan\u201d, \u201cThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson\u201d, &quot;Would You Rather...with Graham Norton&quot;, \u201cGood Afternoon America\u201d and multiple times on&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;Today&amp;nbsp;Show&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Countdown&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;Keith&amp;nbsp;Olbermann, and on&amp;nbsp;History's&amp;nbsp;I Love the 1880s. He hosted&amp;nbsp;TV Land's&amp;nbsp;game show &quot;Game Time&quot;. As an actor, Finnegan portrayed the supporting role of &quot;Carl&quot; in the film&amp;nbsp;Eden Court, a ticket agent in &quot;Knight and Day&quot; and several guest roles including a talk show host on &quot;The Good Wife&quot;. In October 2006, Finnegan's debut stand up comedy CD titled&amp;nbsp;Two For Flinching&amp;nbsp;was released by&amp;nbsp;Comedy Central Records, with a follow-up national tour of college campuses from January to April 2007.&amp;nbsp;\u201cAu Contraire!\u201d was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2009. His third special &quot;The Fun Part&quot; was filmed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on April 4, 2013 and debuted on Netflix on April 15, 2014. &amp;nbsp;   Check out all things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;Twitter Pete&amp;nbsp;On&amp;nbsp;Instagram Pete&amp;nbsp;Personal&amp;nbsp;FB&amp;nbsp;page      ","author_name":"Stand Up! with Pete Dominick","author_url":"http:\/\/standupwithpete.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/25060071\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/140767515"}