Telling Great Stories with Christine Walters

About this episode

Ophira Eisenberg interviews Christine Walters about her creative journey and the challenges of parenting a teenager.

In this episode of Parenting Is a Joke, Ophira Eisenberg talks with Christine Walters—comedian, former TV development executive, and creator of Three Day Champion—about building a creative life that moves between producing, performing, and parenting a now 17-year-old son on the brink of college, while still feeling the daily pull of waiting up for him at night and resisting the urge to track his every move. Walters explains how Three Day Champion grew out of watching Jeopardy! with her family and becoming obsessed with contestants’ awkward personal anecdotes, leading her to design a live storytelling format where comedians must deliver three distinct personal stories under pressure, revealing not just their material but their personality arc, all judged by rotating celebrity guests with their own criteria. She shares how her background developing shows for networks like Comedy Central and Nickelodeon shaped her instinct for structure, including her earlier parenting sketch series Other Mothered, which exaggerated the quiet competitiveness and judgment between moms—like escalating a child’s science fair project from cotton-ball clouds to nuclear fusion—while also reflecting her…

People in this episode

Host: Ophira Eisenberg

Guest: Christine Walters

Topics covered

• storytelling
• parenting
• comedy
• creative life
• personal anecdotes

Keywords

• storytelling format
• comedians
• parenting challenges
• Jeopardy!
• personal stories

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Three Day Champion, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon

Places: The Hague, Nijmegen, Boston, Martha’s Vineyard, Scarsdale, NY

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