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EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Ophira Eisenberg has announced that her caller typical I Used to Be Nicer, produced by Lewis Black‘s Stark Raving Black, will premiere connected Veeps astatine 5 p.m. PT connected Friday, May 15.
In nan special, Eisenberg gives a Canadian mediate digit to toxic positivity, parenting, matrimony maintenance, aging, therapy, and nan goddamn costs of eggs.
“I’ve been told my full life that I’m truthful nice,” nan stand-up said. “Is it nan Canadian successful me? The accommodating female successful me? Well acknowledgment to parenthood, getting a small older, and being told to ‘just beryllium positive’ 1 excessively galore times, I tin yet opportunity I utilized to beryllium nicer. Now I’m honest. And it’s amended for comedy!”
Directed by Benjamin Brewer, I Used to Be Nicer taped astatine Village Underground astatine nan Comedy Cellar successful New York, NY. Jack Gulick and Brewer of Stark Raving Black produced nan hour, pinch Lenny Marcus and Eisenberg serving arsenic exec producers.
Said Eisenberg’s shaper Black — a seasoned comic and character seen connected The Daily Show, and successful specials for illustration Tragically, I Need You — “I americium not only joyful but proud to person produced Ophira Eisenberg’s special. And I americium seldom 1 who feels joyousness aliases moreover uses that word, but I deliberation erstwhile you watch it, you will understand why I am. Also, it’s bully to person been a portion of getting her a larger audience—one she deserves arsenic her activity continues to evolve. She nails her subjects—from nine to relationships to motherhood to marriage—with a barbed joke that is arsenic funny arsenic it is insightful. She opens our eyes pinch laughter.”
Eisenberg is simply a stand-up comedian, writer, and podcaster who released her past special, Inside Joke, pinch Comedy Dynamics. She tours regularly pinch The Moth Mainstage, hosts nan play podcast Parenting is simply a Joke, and antecedently hosted NPR’s trivia drama show Ask Me Another for 9 years. Eisenberg’s memoir Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy (Seal Press) has been optioned for television, and her solo show Leaving A Mark: A Comedy About Scars won nan Women successful nan Arts & Media Award for Solo Show Scripts and conscionable vanished a successful European tour.
The comic is repped by Jodi Lieberman of Lieberman Entertainment and Peikoff Mahan.
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