A Comedy Debate Series!
One feeds you chicken soup, tucks you in at night and hobbles your ability to form healthy, adult attachments. The other sends you into the woods with a knife and a beer, ordering you not to return until you’re CEO of a Fortune 500. But which is which? And which is better? Say goodbye to those cherished lies of childhood, because after this comedic Battle of the Begetters, only one “World’s Greatest” mug will remain in the kitchen cabinet.
This installment features Ophira Eisenberg (Ask Me Another), Naomi Ekperigin (Broad City), John Fugelsang (Tell Me Everything), Tom Lenk (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Gabe Pacheco (Eat Pray Judge), and Shalewa Sharpe (HBO's 2 Dope Queens).
The popular comedy debate series invites two teams of funny folks from the worlds of stand-up and late-night television to tackle topics of great importance to pop culture, such as which pet is superior--cats or dogs--and is it better to be comfortable or fashionable? The verbal sparring and all-around absurdity stop only when the audience decides the winner. Hosted by Matthew Love.
To Learn About the Artists
Ophira Eisenberg is a standup comedian, writer, and host of NPR’s national syndicated comedy trivia radio show and podcast Ask Me Another where she interviews, jokes around with, and plays silly games with Sir Patrick Stewart, Rosie Perez, Awkwafina, Roxanne Gay, Bob The Drag Queen, Jessica Walter, Bowen Yang, Debra Messing, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler and more. She is also a regular panelist on Hulu’s Up Early Tonight. She’s appeared on Comedy Central, This Week At The Comedy Cellar, The New Yorker Festival, HBO’s Girls, Gotham Live, The Late Late Show, and The Today Show. She is a regular host and teller on The Moth Radio Hour. Her stories have also been included in two of The Moth’s best-selling collections, including the most recent: Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible. Ophira’s own comedic memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy was optioned for a feature film. Her comedy special Inside Joke is available on Amazon and iTunes.
Naomi Ekperigin is an actor, comedian, and writer who most recently appeared in a recurring role on the Apple TV show Mythic Quest. You can see her stand up on Late Night with Seth Meyers, HBO's 2 Dope Queens, and Comedy Central's The Half Hour. She also co-hosts the podcasts "Couples Therapy" and "I Love a Lifetime Movie."
John Fugelsang is a political commentator, comedian, TV and radio personality, performer, and writer. He was the host of America’s Funniest Home Videos and has appeared frequently on news commentary shows on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, and NPR. He recently performed in The Bill of Rights Concert, which aired on AXS. Fugelsang was the host of Current TV’s daily show Viewpoint. Currently, he hosts Tell Me Everything on the SiriusXM Insight Channel. He appears in the features The Girl On The Train, Maggie Black, and The Whole Truth. In 2016, his film Dream On was named Best Documentary at the NY Independent Film Festival.
Tom Lenk’s screen work includes Transparent, Room 104, American Housewife, Zac & Mia, Workin’ Moms, Bones, Episodes, The Witches of East End, Cabin in the Woods, Transformers, Much Ado About Nothing, Argo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and on stage in Buyer & Cellar, Rock of Ages, and Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist. As a comedian, he has performed his solo comedy shows around the globe with sold-out stops at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Soho Theatre, Comedy Central Stage, and Birdland Jazz.
Matthew Love is a performer and writer whose bylines has appeared in TheNew York Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture, LitHub, American Theatre, Village Voice, The Onion, AV Club and Time Out New York, where he was formerly the Comedy and Books editor. He's currently a consulting producer for Selected Shorts and its spin-off podcast, Too Hot for Radio. He has interviewed or hosted shows featuring Chris Rock, David Byrne, Parker Posey, Jordan Peele, Stephen Colbert, Tig Notaro, and many, many more. Love is putting finishing touches on his “grandma noir” novel, Tough Old Birds.
Gabe Pacheco is an actor, comedian, host, friend, and roving academic. He has appeared at Caroline’s, The Creek & The Cave, and the Knitting Factory. He’s shared insights on Sirius XM’s Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang and Affirmative Reaction with Xorje Olivares, while also sitting in as permanent guest host of The Katie Halper Show. Gabe trained at the UCB Theater and is a veteran in the Story Pirates Acting Company. In 2018, he starred in the short film Leaves in Autumn, which was screened at the Anthology Film Archives as part of the New Filmmakers Festival.
Shalewa Sharpe is a Brooklyn-based comedian who developed her sly yet goofy style in Atlanta. She has appeared on HBO’s 2 Dope Queens and Comedy Central’s The New Negroes. In 2019 she played the role of Yvette in John Cameron Mitchell's musical podcast Anthem: Homunculus and was named one of Vulture’s Comics To Watch. She is currently a co-host of the weekly podcast, The War Report with Gastor and Shalewa. She has two albums of jokes: Stay Eating Cookies (2016) and So You Just Out Here? (2019). She can be found on Twitter, Instagram, and Venmo at @silkyjumbo.
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Past Performers include Elna Baker, Maria Bamford, Michael Ian Black, Guy Branum, Wyatt Cenac, Ronny Chieng, Jo Firestone, John Fugelsang, Janeane Garofalo, Jon Glaser, Ilana Glazer, Josh Gondelman, Dave Hill, Maeve Higgins, Mehran Khaghani, Julie Klausner, Hasan Minhaj, Aparna Nancherla, Kristen Schaal, Baratunde Thurston, Kevin Townley, Michael Showalter, Dan Soder, Bowen Yang, Sasheer Zamata, and many more.
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