Just four years ago, Ophira Eisenberg, a comedian and the host of NPR’s trivia and comedy show, “Ask Me Another,” said that some bookers had warned her that she might alienate her audience by talking about her pregnancy on stage.

“For years we’ve heard men talk about their penises,” she said, “and we were supposed to accept that that’s universal!”

And today? Forget the pitter-patter.

“All the questions everyone asks — What are you having? Do you know what you’re having?” Schumer said in her Netflix special.

Her answer: “Hemorrhoids!”

So how did we get here?

There is no comprehensive count of women in comedy, but comedians, club owners and bookers say there are more of them working today, even though they remain vastly outnumbered by men. And with women starting families later than they used to, these female comics are now more likely to have established careers by the time they start having babies.

“My peers and I kind of hit it, so to speak, just as you’re right at the end of your fertility window,” Pazsitzky, whose children are 9 months old and 3, said. “I’ve worked 15 years to get here.”

Like most working women, she said, “I can’t take a year off to have a baby.”

So there they are, with an audience and microphone, and a whole lot of material.