Parenting is a Joke

Ophira Eisenberg

Booking Overview

A parenting-and-comedy interview show featuring conversations with comedians, authors, coaches, and other public-facing parents about career, family life, and unconventional parenthood. Strong guest candidates include parent-authors, comedians, relationship or parenting experts, and creators with a distinctive family or work-life story; booking difficulty is medium because guests are generally established professionals rather than top-tier celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 255

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 396 subscribers

Instagram: 19.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

ophiranyc@gmail.com

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Host

Ophira Eisenberg - Stand-up comedian and podcast host known for candid, humorous conversations about parenting, careers, relationships, and family life.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Public-facing comedians, authors, podcasters, coaches, journalists, and other creative or media professionals who are parents and can offer a distinctive perspective on family life, career, relationships, or nontraditional parenthood.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Established comedy or media careers, Podcasting or journalism experience, Recognized expertise in relationships, parenting, or family life

Recent Guest Discussions

Carlos Greaves - Balancing Satire Writing And Stay-at-home Fatherhood, Creative Careers, Political Satire, Parenting Anxiety, And Raising Children Amid Social And Environmental Uncertainty.

Sabrina Bendory - Relationship Patterns, Dating, Emotional Wounds, Parenting Four Children, Postpartum Anxiety, Generational Patterns, And Choosing Stable Partnerships.

Sabrina Bendory - Motherhood, Emotional Attunement, Postpartum Anxiety, Parenting Mistakes, Confidence, People-pleasing, And Breaking Generational Cycles.

Jo Piazza - Writing And Parenting, Balancing An Author Career With Family Life, Accepting Help, Creative Children, Marriage, And Working-parent Freedom.

Holly Rizzuto-Palker - Interfaith Parenting, Family Traditions, Religious Identity, Raising Independent Children, And Balancing Comedy With Family Responsibilities.

Recent Topics

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

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Parenting is a Joke

Sona Movsesian: Two Moms, One Computer Connection

September 08, 2026

In the Season 5 premiere of Parenting Is a Joke, Ophira Eisenberg talks with Sona Movsesian—co-host of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, former longtime Conan O’Brien assistant, and author of The World’s Worst Mom—about becoming a mother without ever having pictured herself as one, and about building a creative career around the unpredictable logistics of raising children. Their conversation begins with a fitting technological disaster: the two women spend 45 minutes switching laptops, sign-ins, ...

Adam Cayton-Holland Is On the Big Screen

September 01, 2026

Host Ophira Eisenberg brings back this favorite episode with Adam Cayton-Holland in celebration of his new film See You When I See You recently featured at the Sundance Film Festival, the Nantucket Film Festival, and more. They talk about the peculiar math of building a creative life around two young children, five-year-old Malcolm and a two-year-old, and how becoming a parent turned the ambitious comedian who once imagined “conquering the world” into someone who now negotiates club wee...

A Bit of Magic with Carlos Greaves

August 25, 2026

Carlos Greaves returns to the podcast for a closer look at the surprisingly authoritarian role of parenting, beginning with his 18-month-old daughter’s new favorite activity: climbing things that are clearly designed for five-year-olds and launching herself toward a seven-foot drop. With essentially no childcare experience before becoming a dad—he had never even changed a diaper until the nurse handed him his daughter in the hospital—Greaves describes figuring out parenting through research, ...

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