The Parent Trap with Ahri Findling

The Parent Trap with Ahri Findling

From Parenting is a Joke by Ophira Eisenberg

April 21, 2026 · 35 min · Season 4 · Episode 446

About this episode

Ophira Eisenberg and Ahri Findling discuss the intersection of parenting, comedy, and creative identity.

In this follow-up Parenting Is a Joke episode, Ophira Eisenberg and comedian Ahri Findling zero in on the strange overlap between parenting, comedy, and creative identity, starting with Findling’s Instagram bits that splice mundane parenting tasks—like folding laundry—with explosive movie quotes that suddenly feel accurate once you have kids. Their conversation moves through watching childhood films with a new lens, as Ophira revisits E.T. and can only see the overwhelmed single mom feeding her kids junk and leaving a four-year-old home alone, while Findling reinterprets The Parent Trap as a borderline criminal act of separating twins. From there, Findling articulates his comedic approach—mining the small, uncomfortable truths of marriage and parenting, like imagining himself at his wife’s casket both professing love and quietly panicking about not knowing where anything is—and connects it to a broader philosophy that nothing in family life is unique, which becomes oddly comforting for parents juggling creative careers. They get specific about the logistics of stand-up life with young kids, including missing bedtimes, reframing gigs as “work” (a tip from Chris Gethard), and the…

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Host: Ophira Eisenberg

Guest: Ahri Findling

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Books & works: E.T., The Parent Trap

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