There is no denying that Ester Steinberg made a big impact with her first full-length stand-up album, 2018’s “Hebrew School Dropout.” Yet Steinberg had a lot of buzz around her prior to that as she was one Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival’s “New Faces in 2015,” starred in Oxygen’s hit show “Funny Girls” and had a project in development at ABC.
“Burning Bush” is Ester Steinberg’s latest special, as released on March 30th via Comedy Dynamics. Billed as a “postpartum pandemic special,” Steinberg’s special includes stories from her first year of marriage and about giving birth in the epicenter of a global pandemic. But also interesting about “Burning Bash” is that it was filmed as part of the Tribeca Drive-In series at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, one of the nation’s first live and safely social-distanced gatherings following the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. Other participating comics from this series included Dave Helem, Daniel Webb and Erica Rhodes.
Beyond promoting “Burning Bush” and preparing for an eventual post-COVID-19 return to the road, Ester Steinberg is also keeping busy these days as the host of the “Stand Up Mom” podcast. Featuring conversations between Steinberg and guests who are trying to find a balance between their careers and motherhood, “Stand Up Mom” often shows a side of Steinberg from her on-stage comedy.
On April 12, 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with Ester Steinberg via Zoom, as embedded below. Within that conversation we not only spoke about her recent projects, but also life during COVID-19, being married to another comedian (Noah Gardenswartz), her Tampa upbringing, her parents being surprisingly-approving of her career path, musical preferences and her creative process.
More on Ester Steinberg and “Burning Bush” can be found here, here and here.
