I Used to Be Nicer

Ophira Eisenberg is tired of being accommodating. Shot at the Village Underground at New York’s Comedy Cellar, this hour is a rejection of the toxic positivity that corners modern mothers and aging adults. Eisenberg dismantles the polite exterior expected of her as a Canadian woman, trading nicely packaged platitudes for direct, sometimes weary honesty about long-term marriage, therapy, and the ridiculous price of groceries.

The special was produced by Lewis Black’s Stark Raving Black Productions and directed by Benjamin Brewer, debuting on the streaming platform Veeps in May 2026. This release follows years of Eisenberg cementing her reputation as an NPR host on Ask Me Another and a frequent storyteller with The Moth. Here, she leans entirely into her stand-up roots, using her conversational style to address the exhausting domestic upkeep of parenting and keeping a marriage functioning.