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TJ has been seen in many sketches on Collegehumor.com such as Friends with Benefits Wedding, Spank Bank and Electric Company Ad as well as the MTV College Humor TV show. He was featured in the 2007 NY Comedy Festival alongside HBO's Robert Kelley and has hosted shows that included comedians such as Dave Chappelle, Dave Attell, Chris Rock, and Tommy Davidson. He performs at clubs and colleges all over the country with his diversity comedy tour Black, White, and Red All Over. He is a voice over artist as well who has done commercial work including Capri Sun's tag line "Respect the Pouch", Best Buy, Tidy Cats, Dannon Danimals and many radio spots including AT&T, McDonald's, Wendy's and more. TJ has voiced cartoon characters for Three Delivery, Yu-Gi-Oh 5D and video games such as BULLY, GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony and I AM ALIVE.

As an improviser he was part of Scotchatory Tape, an improv troupe that toured the country and performed at The Del Close Marathon at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He is also UCB trained under Bobby Moynihan from SNL, a few members of the UCB house troupe “The Stepfathers” Zach Woods, Silvija Ozols and Ari Voukydis from VH1.

"Ophira Eisenberg... Practice pronouncing that name. She is cleverly, memorably funny... On stage she has that marvelous air of being both relaxed and in charge... She is a class act."
- Kate Copstick, The Scotsman, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008

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Selected this year as one of New York Magazine's Top 10 Comics, Ophira Eisenberg has appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend, Fresh Faces of Comedy, VH-1's Best Week Ever and All Access, Oxygen, the E! Channel, and the Discovery Channel. She’s also had her own half hour comedy special on Canadian Television: CTV’s Comedy Now, and is a two-time MAC Award Finalist (Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets) for Best Female Comic.

Ophira makes her home in New York City where she performs at all the comedy clubs including Carolines, Stand-up New York, and Comix to name a few. She also regularly headlines colleges and tours theatres with two comedy variety shows, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad and The Liar Show.

In 2005, Ophira became a regular performer with The Moth, the New York City storytelling phenomenon. Since then she has performed on numerous sold out Mainstage shows at The Players Club and New York Public Library. She’s also a monthly host for their Story Slams. Her stories are featured on their Audience Favorites CD, and as a podcast, which was rated by iTunes as their #1 podcast. She is also a featured storyteller on the new popular podcast Risk Storytelling, created by Kevin Allison (MTV’s The State)
Ophira’s jokes have been featured in the New York Post’s “America's Best Comics Tell The Post the 50 Funniest Jokes They Know 2009” and “The 50 Best Bits That Crack Up Pro Comics 2008”. She was selected by BackStage as one of “10 Standout Stand Ups Worth Watching” in their Spotlight on Comedy Issue, and hailed as a “Highly Recommended Favorite” by Time Out New York.
Her writing has been published in four anthologies: I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics along side Joan Rivers, Jerry Seinfeld, and Chris Rock, Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled, the brand new collection Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection and Lost and Found: Stories from New York (Vol. 2) edited by Thomas Beller. She is also a regular contributor for US Weekly's Fashion Police, Gawker.com, Msn.com, Yourtango.com and The Comedians Magazine.
Her acting credits include The Overlookers (winner: Best Picture at the Canadian Film Festival and Best Feature Film at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival), Showtime's Queer As Folk and CBS’s The Guardian.