Parenting is a Joke

Ophira Eisenberg

ophiranyc@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

This is a weekly interview show focused on parenting, family life, and the tensions between raising children and pursuing creative careers, typically featuring comedians, writers, performers, and other media professionals. Suitable pitches include authors, comedians, television creators, journalists, and parents with distinctive or nontraditional family experiences; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need established creative credentials and an engaging personal parenting perspective.

Metrics

Episodes: 246

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 358 subscribers

Instagram: 19.0k followers

Contact Information

ophiranyc@gmail.com

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Host

Ophira Eisenberg - Stand-up comedian, writer, and former host of NPR’s Ask Me Another.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Established comedians, writers, performers, journalists, authors, television creators, or other media professionals with a compelling parenting perspective or distinctive family experience.
Required Achievements:  
Published books or journalism, Television writing or showrunning credits, Established comedy or performance careers, Podcasting or other media work

Recent Guest Discussions

Wendy Molyneux - Growing Up In A Large Family, Raising Children, Creative Work, Television Writing, Children’s Entertainment, Screen Time, And Parenting Boundaries.

Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin - Growing Up In A Large Family, Raising Children, Creative Work, Television Writing, Children’s Entertainment, Screen Time, And Parenting Boundaries.

Jo Piazza - Raising Children While Pursuing Ambitious Creative Work, Influencer Culture, Momfluencers, Postpartum Life, Trad-wife Ideals, And The Gap Between Curated Family Life And Reality.

Mike Albo - Donor-parent Family Life, Unconventional Parenthood, Creative Identity, Queer Culture, Consent, Social Media Envy, And Balancing Artistic Work With Family Relationships.

Recent Topics

Parenting, Comedy, Family, Parenthood, Work-life Balance

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Parenting is a Joke
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Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux Trust Weird Kids

July 07, 2026

Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux, the sister writing team behind Bob's Burgers and The Great North, join Ophira to compare growing up in a large family with raising seven kids of their own while balancing television writing, showrunning, and creative work. They swap stories about "feral" childhoods that somehow still included dinner together, debate what actually counts as being a strict parent, and explain why weekday iPad bans, family meals without devices, and simply convincing kids to shower can...

Jo Piazza Sees Through the Trad Wife Dream

June 30, 2026

Best -selling author and podcaster Jo Piazza joins Ophira Eisenberg for a sharp, funny conversation about raising three kids while writing bestselling thrillers, hosting a hit podcast, and investigating the increasingly bizarre world of mom influencers. Piazza explains how her novel Everyone Is Lying to You grew out of years spent reporting on influencer culture, from attending lavish creator conferences to briefly attempting life as a momfluencer herself—an experiment that lasted about two w...

The Automatic Family with Mike Albo

June 23, 2026

In this second conversation between our host Ophira Eisenberg and writer, performer, and donor dad comedian and writer Mike Albo, the focus shifts from how his unconventional family was created to how it has evolved over the last twelve years. Albo reflects on the surprising way a child instantly turned a collection of unrelated adults into a family unit, from annual birthday parties elaborate enough to feel like “a luncheon for the Obamas” to finding himself genuinely invested in catching up...

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