Big Stretch: A Comedy Show (ft. Ophira Eisenberg)

Big Stretch is a monthly comedy show hosted by Dan Wilbur, showcasing some of the best comics from Long Island and New York City. Previous guests have been featured on Conan, The Tonight Show, Colbert, HBO, and Comedy Central.

Tuesday, December 17th @ 8:00 PM includes...

Ophira Eisenberg (NPR, Comedy Central)

Joe Pontillo

Kathy Arnold Jr.

Will Purpura

hosted by Dan Wilbur (Sirius XM, The Onion)

21+

$10

Doors 7:00 PM, Show 8:00 PM

About the headliner:

Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR’s comedy trivia show  for 9-years, where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, Jim Gaffigan, Michael C. Hall, and so many others.

As a comic and a parent to a 6-year-old, Ophira is the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke co-produced by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends Productions. The show launches on October 18th.

She can be seen live, regularly headlining across the United States, Canada, and Europe delivering her unique blend of standup and storytelling to a loyal fan base of smart, irreverent comedy lovers. She has appeared at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival, The New Yorker Festival, The New York Comedy Festival, Moontower Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, The Nantucket Film Festival, Women in Comedy Festival and more.

Her new comedy album at special is available on iTunes and is streaming now on YouTube. Lauded as “hilarious, high risk, and an inspiration,” Ophira filmed her comedy special , when she was 8½ months pregnant. The show’s material revolves around how she told everyone that she was never going to have kids, and then unexpectedly found herself expecting at “an advanced maternal age.” Her other comedy albums,  and 

She has appeared on Comedy Central, This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, HBO’s Girls, Gotham Live, The Late Late Show, The Today Show, and VH-1. The New York Times called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with “bleakly stylish” humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine’s “Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny,” and hailed by Forbes.com as one of the most engaging comics working today. 

Ophira is a regular host and teller with  and her stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and in two of The Moth’s best-selling collections, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller: . 

Ophira’s first book,  (Seal Press), is a comedic memoir about her experiments in the field as a single woman, traveling from futon to futon and flask-to-flask, gathering data, hoping to put it all together and build her own perfect Frankenmate. It was optioned for a feature film. 

About the host:

Dan Wilbur is a comedian and the author of 2 humor books, How Not to Read (Penguin) and Never Flirt with Puppy Killers (AM Universal). His work has been featured on Sirius XM, College Humor, McSweeney’s, The Onion News Network, the RISK! podcast, and Someecards (where he was also the Ecards Editor). He’s been featured in sketches for College Humor, IFC, MTV, Funny or Die, and Distractify (one of which ended up on The Today Show). He has performed stand-up for over 11 years and has been featured in festivals in Boston, Cleveland, New York, Austin, Salt Lake City, and North Carolina. Dan recently opened for Patton Oswalt in Madison, Grand Rapids, and at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. His first album, Husband Material, is out now on Ghost Runner Records.

Host or Publisher Dan Wilbur