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Ophira Eisenberg
Canadian American comedian, writer, and actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ophira Eisenberg (born 1972) is a Canadian American comedian, writer, and actress. She is from Calgary, Alberta.[1] She has been living in New York City since 2001 and obtained American citizenship in April 2021.[2][3]
Eisenberg hosted the weekly NPR and WNYC trivia, puzzle, and game show Ask Me Another,[4] with the "one-man house band" Jonathan Coulton. In 2013, she appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.[5] She also appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend[6] and Fresh Faces of Comedy, as well as VH-1's Best Week Ever[7] All Access,[8] the E! Channel, the Oxygen Network, the Discovery Channel, TV Guide Channel's Standup in Stilettos, and the AXS Network.
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Stand-up comedy and storytelling
Eisenberg performs regularly in New York City.[1][9] She frequently hosts and tours with The Moth,[1] a storytelling show, and is featured on one of their Audience Favorites CDs.
She was featured in the New York Times' "Telling Tales With a Tear and a Smile,"[10] New York magazine's "Ten New Comedians That Funny People Find Funny",[11] New York Post's "The 50 Best Bits That Crack Up Pro Comics",[12] selected by Backstage magazine as one of "10 Standout Stand Ups Worth Watching" in their Spotlight on Comedy Issue, and hailed as a "Highly Recommended Favorite" by Time Out New York magazine. She was a MAC Awards (Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets) Finalist for Best Female Comic in 2009.[13]
Writing
Her debut memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy was released 2 April 2013.[14] She has also been featured in a number of anthology books, including: I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics alongside Dennis Miller, Joan Rivers, Chris Rock, and Jerry Seinfeld;[15] Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled;[16] Heeb Magazine's Sex, Drugs and Gefilte Fish (2010);[17] and Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats (2022) alongside Margaret Cho, Ray Romano, Roy Wood Jr., and Maria Bamford.[18]
Acting
Her acting credits include The Overlookers (winner of Best Picture at the Canadian Film Festival and Best Feature Film at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival), Showtime's Queer as Folk, and CBS's The Guardian. She was also in the original Toronto Fringe production of The Drowsy Chaperone in 1999,[19] which later became a Tony Award-winning Broadway show.[citation needed]
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Personal life
Eisenberg lives in an apartment in Brooklyn, New York City, with her husband, Jonathan Baylis (a writer-producer-editor and comic creator of So Buttons Comix) and their son Lucas.[20] She is Jewish and a breast cancer survivor.[21] She is half Dutch, from her mother who came from Nijmegen.[22]
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