Schmear Campaign

Most family roasts settle for annoying habits, but Ester Steinberg has stranger material to mine: her father, a Tampa disability attorney who ran for office five times and tanked his own political ambitions by opening the Bagel Boudoir, a breakfast shop where waitresses in teddies warmed orders in microwave ovens. Steinberg recounts the local scandal with dry relish, treating the public embarrassment as an inheritance meant for the stage.

The rest of the set leans into domestic life in Las Vegas with two young sons, the realities of a mommy makeover, and a pitch for an unappealing homemade sex tape. She keeps a fast, punchy rhythm, adopting the posture of a mother who has neither the time nor the patience for suburban sentimentality.

Taped in March 2024 at The Crow in Santa Monica, California, the 43-minute set was released by Comedy Dynamics in March 2025. It marks a return to a standard comedy club stage after her 2020 debut, Burning Bush, which she recorded heavily pregnant at a pandemic drive-in outside the Rose Bowl.