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The Automatic Family with Mike Albo
Jun 23, 2026
42m 27s
Mike Albo Deserves to be a Daddy
Jun 16, 2026
45m 58s
That’s What The Job Is with Jenny Hagel
Jun 9, 2026
29m 44s
Jenny Hagel Gives Great Advice (That I Asked For)
Jun 2, 2026
53m 02s
Megan Gailey Adds Another Member to the Team
May 26, 2026
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() The Automatic Family with Mike Albo | 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 with grandparents whose lives might otherwise never have intersected with his. He talks about recognizing himself in his daughter’s ability to entertain herself for hours with thick Peanuts collections, seeing traces of his own creative childhood in the way she builds stories and worlds, and preparing for the role he hopes to play during her teenage years: a trusted adult outside the immediate family orbit. Along the way, the conversation moves through creative identity, aging, social media envy, queer culture, consent, and the ways parenting can quietly force a reckoning with habits and assumptions inherited from childhood, including a moment when a simple correction about personal boundaries made him rethink how casually children’s bodies were treated when he was growing up. For parents balancing artistic ambition with family life, Albo offers a perspective that is neither traditional nor detached, but rooted in showing up, paying attention, and staying open to being changed by the relationship. The episode closes with Albo describing his daughter watching movies on VHS tapes and winding down with cake-decorating videos while he marvels that her mothers somehow managed to make 2025 feel a little bit like 1982. 📍June Shows are in Las Vegas, Nantucket, MA, New Haven, CT and NYC Follow Mike Albo : https://www.instagram.com/albomike Check out his writing and work: https://www.mikealbo.net/ See Ophira LIVE: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/events/ Check out my NEW Comedy Special “I Used to Be Nicer” streaming right now exclusively on Veeps https://veeps.com/ophiraeisenberg SUBSCRIBE so you never miss O thing: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/sign-up Follow PIAJ: https://www.instagram.com/parentingisajoke/ https://parentingisajoke.substack.com/ Follow Ophira: https://www.instagram.com/ophirae/ https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 42m 27s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() Mike Albo Deserves to be a Daddy | Writer, comedian, actor Mike Albo joins host Ophira Eisenberg on Parenting is a Joke for a conversation about becoming a sperm donor for two close friends and finding himself in a version of parenthood he never expected. Albo traces the decision back to a deeper question—whether, as a gay man who came of age during the AIDS crisis, he believed he deserved the kind of full family life that once felt out of reach. What follows is both thoughtful and absurd: months of fertility clinic visits in Murray Hill, navigating the “Goldilocks” timing of sperm donation, getting performance reviews on his sperm motility from a stern Eastern European technician, and discovering that even sperm can apparently show up hungover. The discussion moves from the legal realities of donor agreements to the emotional nuances of being a child’s biological father without being a traditional parent, including why he avoids the word “dad,” how his role has evolved as his daughter has grown older, and why preserving his artistic life felt important both for himself and for her. Along the way, Albo and Eisenberg compare notes on horror movies, practical effects, creative identity, and the many ways families get built outside conventional scripts, all while reflecting on what children understand, what they need confirmed, and how relationships take shape over time. The episode ends with one of Albo’s favorite stories: his daughter, raised by two mothers and a gay sperm donor, casually asking, “Is Mike gay?” 📍June Shows are in Las Vegas, Nantucket, MA, New Haven, CT and NYC Follow Mike Albo : https://www.instagram.com/albomike Check out his writing and work: https://www.mikealbo.net/ See Ophira LIVE: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/events/ Check out my NEW Comedy Special “I Used to Be Nicer” streaming right now exclusively on Veeps https://veeps.com/ophiraeisenberg SUBSCRIBE so you never miss O thing: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/sign-up Follow PIAJ: https://www.instagram.com/parentingisajoke/ https://parentingisajoke.substack.com/ Follow Ophira: https://www.instagram.com/ophirae/ https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 45m 58s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() That’s What The Job Is with Jenny Hagel✨ | parenting challengesraising boys+4 | Jenny Hagel | Late Night with Seth MeyersAdvice No One Asked For | Puerto RicoNew York City+4 | parentingraising kids+6 | — | 29m 44s | |
| 6/2/26 | ![]() Jenny Hagel Gives Great Advice (That I Asked For)✨ | parentingemotional regulation+4 | Jenny Hagel | Late Night with Seth Meyers | — | parenting adviceemotional math+5 | — | 53m 02s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() Megan Gailey Adds Another Member to the Team✨ | parentingstand-up comedy+4 | Megan Gailey | Pacers | The HagueNijmegen+4 | parentingcomedy+5 | — | 40m 10s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() Telling Great Stories with Christine Walters✨ | storytellingparenting+3 | Christine Walters | Three Day ChampionComedy Central+1 | The HagueNijmegen+3 | storytelling formatcomedians+3 | — | 31m 14s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() Christine Walters is an Everyday Champion Mom✨ | parentingcomedy+4 | Christine Walters | Three Day ChampionFull Frontal with Samantha Bee+1 | The HagueNijmegen+3 | parentingcomedy+4 | — | 46m 02s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() Taking Care of Mama with Corey Ryan Forrester✨ | parentingstand-up comedy+4 | Corey Ryan Forrester | HarperCollinsToy Story+1 | — | parentingstand-up comedy+6 | — | 28m 31s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Corey Ryan Forrester Solves It All With Build-A-Bear✨ | parentingcomedy+3 | Corey Ryan Forrester | — | Chickamauga, Georgia | parentingcomedy+5 | — | 41m 25s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() The Parent Trap with Ahri Findling✨ | parentingcomedy+5 | Ahri Findling | E.T.The Parent Trap | — | parentingcomedy+6 | — | 35m 26s | |
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| 4/14/26 | ![]() Ahri Findling is An Emotional Support Dad✨ | parentingcomedy+3 | Ahri Findling | — | — | parenting anxietyempath dad+3 | — | 45m 39s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() Laurie Kilmartin Parents From the Green Room✨ | parentingcomedy+3 | Laurie Kilmartin | Academy Awardsanime-inspired webcomic | — | parentingcomedy+7 | — | 41m 04s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() Good Mom, Bad Puppy with Ashley Austin Morris✨ | pregnancyparenting+4 | Ashley Austin Morris | New York | — | pregnancy experiencescomedy career+4 | — | 48m 08s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() Writing Horoscopes for Tiny Terrors with Johanna Gohmann✨ | astrologyparenting+4 | Johanna Gohmann | All Toddlers Are Scorpios | — | horoscopestoddler behavior+4 | — | 40m 47s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() Johanna Gohmann Declares All Toddlers Are Scorpios✨ | parentingcomedy+4 | Johanna Gohmann | The New YorkerMcSweeney’s+2 | DublinArby’s | parentingastrology+5 | — | 52m 19s | |
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Raising Responsible Subway Riders with Gideon Evans✨ | parentingsubway safety+5 | Gideon Evans | PBS NewsHourGermany’s DW+3 | New YorkBrooklyn Game Lab | subway ridingparenting+8 | — | 38m 04s | |
| 3/2/26 | ![]() Gideon Evans Confronts Mickey Mouse✨ | parentingcomedy+5 | Gideon Evans | The Daily ShowMichael Moore+1 | ManhattanBrooklyn+2 | parentingcomedy+5 | — | 44m 43s | |
| 2/24/26 | ![]() Durable Gladness with Annabelle Gurwitch✨ | parentingcommunity+4 | Annabelle Gurwitch | — | — | parentinganxiety+5 | — | 33m 46s | |
| 2/17/26 | ![]() Annabelle Gurwitch is Just Trying to Eat, Pray, Live Story✨ | parentingstorytelling+4 | Annabelle Gurwitch | Joe’s PubThe End of My Life Is Killing Me+1 | MalibuBarcelona | parentingcancer+5 | — | 42m 24s | |
| 2/10/26 | ![]() Jon Fisch Explains Why Bedtime Is the Deadline | In this second conversation with Jon Fisch, Ophira Eisenberg and Jon settle into the daily mechanics of parenting two young kids while maintaining a working stand-up career, from navigating December birthdays, redshirting anxiety, and Malcolm Gladwell math, to the quiet shock of realizing your kid suddenly wants to walk to school alone. Fisch talks through the practical negotiations of comedy life now that bedtime matters—calling clubs to ask when he actually needs to arrive, setting a firm four-figure holiday minimum for skipping Passover, and learning how to sneak out of the house mid-Hot Wheels race without triggering tears. They compare notes on sibling dynamics as Fisch describes his daughter’s recent 180 into devoted big-sister mode, reading books to her brother for an hour while grandparents watched football, and reflect on the strange intimacy of bringing a child to shows where she colors on the floor, doesn’t look up once, and later proudly announces, “You were talking about me.” The episode threads through modern parenting pressure points—YouTube shorts bans, grocery store toy ambushes, American Girl’s Hot Wheels crossover, and the slow realization that kids’ programming is one story told with dogs, trucks, or monsters—before circling back to the moment Fisch explains why leaving for a gig feels hardest when his son suddenly has “a thousand things to say” as he’s reaching for his coat. 📍February Shows are in Anchorage, Alaska, Pine Plains, NY, Nashville, NT, KY, Chicago, IL, Madison, WI Follow Jon Fisch: https://www.instagram.com/jdfisch See Ophira LIVE: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/events/ SUBSCRIBE so you never miss O thing: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/sign-up Follow PIAJ: https://www.instagram.com/parentingisajoke/ https://parentingisajoke.substack.com/ Follow Ophira: https://www.instagram.com/ophirae/ https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 36m 40s | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | ![]() Jon Fisch Has Enough Stuffies | In this episode of Parenting Is a Joke, Ophira Eisenberg sits down with longtime friend and comedian Jon Fisch to talk about becoming the parent he always knew he wanted to be—just not in the order he expected—starting with the moment he learned his girlfriend was pregnant while sitting across from his mother at a Cheesecake Factory in the Natick Mall. They trade stories about raising young kids during COVID, from how lockdown accidentally turned Jon’s son into an early, voracious reader thanks to curbside bookstore recommendations, to navigating a preemie birth amid constantly shifting hospital rules that changed by the nursing shift. The conversation drifts easily between creative life and parenting logic, including Jon’s observation that stand-up used to provide “purpose” at night until kids rewired the entire day, and how slowing down during the pandemic made comedy feel more enjoyable again. The heart of the episode lands on a darkly funny family legend involving his niece’s beloved owl lovey—one of many identical backups—which Jon confirms his brother once decapitated in a moment of exhausted bedtime brinkmanship, a parenting move so extreme it later came full circle when that same niece gifted her remaining owls to Jon’s newborn daughter. 📍February Shows are in Anchorage, Alaska, Pine Plains, NY, Nashville, NT, KY, Chicago, IL, Madison, WI Follow Jon Fisch: https://www.instagram.com/jdfisch See Ophira LIVE: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/events/ SUBSCRIBE so you never miss O thing: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/sign-up Follow PIAJ: https://www.instagram.com/parentingisajoke/ https://parentingisajoke.substack.com/ Follow Ophira: https://www.instagram.com/ophirae/ https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 37m 04s | ||||||
| 1/27/26 | ![]() Star Wars Gave Phuc Tran a Way to Relate | In this episode, Ophira Eisenberg reconnects with author, dad, and tattoo artist Phuc Tran for a conversation that zigzags from Star Wars as a childhood lifeline to parenting philosophies shaped by motorcycles, rotary phones, and letting kids touch the metaphorical hot pipe. Tran talks about growing up Vietnamese in a town where missing one TV network meant missing cultural shorthand, and how Star Wars became a rare common language that let him belong, a feeling he’s intentionally recreating with his own daughters by showing them the films before they develop a critical eye. They get into raising kids amid microlabeling culture, with Tran explaining why he wrote “labels are for jars” on the family chalkboard, as well as his years teaching Latin, Greek, and German, arguing that Latin slows kids down in a way modern life rarely does. The conversation moves easily between creative work and parenting ethics, from why he stopped talking tattoo clients out of bad ideas after becoming a parent to how children’s books often serve adult anxieties more than kids’ curiosity. Throughout, Tran frames creativity as something lived rather than branded—whether it’s daughters trading sketchbooks at restaurants instead of phones, apprenticing at the tattoo shop, or his own belief that punk rock shouldn’t be a lifelong personality—before landing on the story of calmly watching his toddler pick herself up in public while a stranger yelled, a moment that neatly captures his faith in letting kids learn by standing back. 📍January Shows are in Las Vegas, NV, Beacon, NY and New York, NY Follow Phuc Tran: https://www.instagram.com/phucskywalker/ See Ophira LIVE: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/events/ SUBSCRIBE so you never miss O thing: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/sign-up Follow PIAJ: https://www.instagram.com/parentingisajoke/ https://parentingisajoke.substack.com/ Follow Ophira: https://www.instagram.com/ophirae/ https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 33m 53s | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | ![]() Phuc Tran Trades Punk Rock for Parenting Teen Daughters | Ophira Eisenberg sits down with author, tattoo artist, and Maine-based dad Phuc Tran for a wide-ranging, grounded conversation that moves from frantic school drop-offs and topping off windshield wiper fluid before a storm to the deeper anxieties of becoming a parent after trauma, bullying, and immigration. Tran talks candidly about growing up as a Vietnamese refugee in small-town America, finding safety in classrooms when home wasn’t safe, and how punk rock, tattoos, and books became both armor and language. The two bond over raising kids while making creative work that pays unevenly, advocating half-jokingly for plumbing and electrical careers, and embracing Maine’s culture of the multi-hyphenate as a survival skill rather than a branding exercise He also reflects on fearing he’d be a bad father, how therapy reframed imperfection as necessary, and why parenting teenage daughters now feels like his area of expertise after decades teaching middle and high school. They also get into luck versus merit in publishing, how his memoir Sigh, Gone led—almost accidentally—to a bestselling children’s book series about big feelings, and why emotional batteries, not discipline charts, determine household peace. The episode circles back to physical objects as emotional anchors, landing on Tran’s red rotary phone—kept for Maine power outages and the unmatched satisfaction of slamming down a receiver when a conversation is truly over. 📍January Shows are in Las Vegas, NV, Beacon, NY and New York, NY Follow Phuc Tran: https://www.instagram.com/phucskywalker/ See Ophira LIVE: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/events/ SUBSCRIBE so you never miss O thing: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/sign-up Follow PIAJ: https://www.instagram.com/parentingisajoke/ https://parentingisajoke.substack.com/ Follow Ophira: https://www.instagram.com/ophirae/ https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 43m 49s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | ![]() Building a House Everyone Comes To With Carole Montgomery | Carole Montgomery and Ophira Eisenberg zoom out from early parenting to talk about what happens after the kid grows up, moves out, and then… moves back in. Carole describes her son’s room as a frozen time capsule—albums, toys, and CDs untouched—while explaining how his first attempt at college lasted six months before the classic millennial boomerang returned him home, a pattern she sums up as “they leave, they come back; I moved—he found me.” She reflects on the anxiety that followed him into adulthood, her belief that anxiety is practically the baseline setting now, and the emotional whiplash of touring for weeks before constant phone contact existed, including the moment her six-year-old calmly told her she was “solid” and could go back on the road. The conversation weaves through parenting philosophies shaped by Vegas cul-de-sacs and open-door houses, her resistance to overscheduled childhoods, the reality that almost no kids actually go pro despite intense sports pressure, and the great trophy purge that left only signed baseballs and, somehow, her husband’s awards. Carole also digs into the creation of Funny Women of a Certain Age, venting about theaters that expect comics to sell tickets, sweep floors, and manage social media while still questioning whether women-led comedy events can sell, all before landing on the oddly satisfying moment she told a woman in her mid-30s she was simply too young for the show. 📍January Shows are in Las Vegas, NV, Beacon, NY and New York, NY Follow Carole Montgomery: https://www.instagram.com/carolemontgomerycomic/ See Ophira LIVE: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/events/ SUBSCRIBE so you never miss O thing: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/sign-up Follow PIAJ: https://www.instagram.com/parentingisajoke/ https://parentingisajoke.substack.com/ Follow Ophira: https://www.instagram.com/ophirae/ https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 37m 56s | ||||||
| 1/6/26 | ![]() Jennifer Wai Connects Reiki, Fortnite, and Staying Close to Your Kid | In this New Year’s episode of Parenting Is a Joke, Ophira Eisenberg talks with mystic, Reiki practitioner, and parent Jennifer Wai about raising kids while trusting intuition in a culture obsessed with rules, experts, and productivity. Jennifer explains what it actually means to be a mystic—describing herself as a human antenna fine-tuning static—and traces that sensitivity back to a childhood marked by literal thinking, bullying, and parents who didn’t quite know what to do with a kid who felt everything. They compare notes on parenting highly perceptive children, including how Jennifer’s early ability to anticipate her kids’ needs sometimes backfired by discouraging them from speaking up, and how her own children have been “socialized out” of mystical thinking, even as they casually tolerate card pulls and energy talk. The conversation moves easily from Reiki as “gentle jumper cables” for the nervous system to the emotional labor of rejecting people-pleasing while doing psychic readings, before landing on practical parenting ideas for the year ahead—like offering kids a “third option” instead of a hard no, or sitting through Fortnite matches just to stay connected. The episode closes on Jennifer’s big theme of grace—grace around self-care that looks like binge-watching, grace around messiness, and grace delivered with a laugh as Ophira admits she’s now calling “grace” her personal Pantone color. 📍January Shows are in Las Vegas, NV, Beacon, NY and New York, NY Follow Jennifer Wai: https://www.instagram.com/thejenniferwai/ See Ophira LIVE: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/events/ SUBSCRIBE so you never miss O thing: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/sign-up Follow PIAJ: https://www.instagram.com/parentingisajoke/ https://parentingisajoke.substack.com/ Follow Ophira: https://www.instagram.com/ophirae/ https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 42m 30s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.
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