New Podcast Features NJ 'Mom Coms,' Stand-Up And Funny Stories On Motherhood

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — It’s a place where books, stand-up comedy and motherhood collide.

“The Mom Coms: Stand-up and Stories Podcast” – which includes several Essex County residents as founders – debuted over the Mother’s Day holiday week. Learn more here.

The goal? To unite a community of “funny, fearless people” who identify as moms.

The podcast features sharp wit and honest storytelling about the “laugh-out-loud reality of motherhood” – from maternity through menopause and beyond.

The new podcast is the latest effort from The Mom Coms Stand-up Comedy Troupe, which performs live shows throughout New Jersey and New York.

The group’s founding members include award-winning writer, journalist and comedian Holly Rizzuto Palker (Millburn), Stephanie Silberstein (Millburn), a teaching artist at Papermill Playhouse, Liz Glazer (South Orange), a comedian who has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Becky Veduccio (Montclair), a comedian and the recipient of a New York Press Club Award for Humor, and journalist and author Liz Alterman (Chatham). Other troupe members include Nancy O’Conner, a New York based stand-up comedian who was the 2024 Ladies of Laughter runner-up, and GL Douglas, a comedian, actress and producer who is the creator and star of the Class Dismissed Teacher Comedy Tour.

Other North Jersey residents who have recorded episodes that are set to air in the coming weeks include author, journalist and NYU teacher, Estelle Erasmus (Fort Lee), and Patch writer and editor, Caren Lissner (Hoboken).

Here’s a taste of what comedy fans might find on the podcast:

• Back In the Closet with Liz Glazer – “From the logistical challenges of sharing closet space with her wife, Rabbi Karen, to the possibility that she’s intentionally denying her mother FaceTime with the grandbaby, Liz tells all.”
• Liz Alterman’s Disastrous Multi-Generational Vacation – “Who would be zany enough to plan a trip to Florida with their 80-year-old mother and three teenage sons and live to write about the adventure? Liz Alterman, that’s who!”

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