My guest today, Ophira Eisenberg, hosts NPR's nationally syndicated comedy trivia show Ask me another, where she interviews and plays silly games with all sorts of people like Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Roxane Gay, Terry Crews, Tony Hawk, George Takei, Julia Stiles, so many other awesome human beings.
She is also a regular host and teller on the Moth Radio Hour.
Her stories have been included in two of the Moth's best selling collections and Ophira's own comedic memoir, Screw Everyone sleeping my way to Monogamy, was optioned for a feature film.
She has appeared on Comedy Central this week at the Comedy Cellar, New Yorker Festival.
So many other places, amazing story driven stand up, and her comedy special inside Joke is available on Amazon and iTunes.
And today we dive into her remarkable journey.
So many of the moving, deeply personal stories, stumbles and awakenings that have brought her to this point in her life.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So you hail from the wilds of up north, which I have been to once in my life and absolutely fell in love with Calgary.
Well, actually Calgary, the city.
And then we jumped up to Banff for like three days, and it was, I was like, do I have to leave here?
It was mind blowingly gorgeous.
Yeah.
All right, so you're growing up in Calgary, a dance person as a kid?
Yes.
Yes, that's right.
Just a lot of ballet.
Well, you know, because I don't.
I did ballet growing up, classical ballet for years.