maria bamford

<3 her she has a free 1 hr xmas special 4 dl @ her site

http://mariabamford.com/

She is soooo great. She just did a whole batch of Black Friday commercials for Target, floatin' around YouTube.

I just relistened to her first two comedy albums upon the purchase of the third. If you dig good standup, I can't recommend any of them highly enough. The last bit on the new album slayed me. "I'm a husk."

I thought about starting this thread like 30 times but always forget when I'm actually on ILX

i was really surprised it didnt already exist

She's one of those comedy people that I'm shocked isn't a huge star. She's so super-talented, much more so than a lot of her more successful peers.

dig her, has she done voice over work? seems like she was bawn for it

honestly the first time i saw her i thought the weird voice thing was this horrible cutesy affectation, at least until she dropped into one of her impersonations and was like dang, now i see why she does it, it makes the clarity and precision of her characters so much more sharply defined

i know its duh obvious but i am consistently impressed by the fact that she is doing impressions of anonymous people that may not even exist, but that still seem totally spot-on and ~like~ people i have met or encountered before

ok minute 12:00 is pertinent to ilx's interests

Re: voiceover, she did a voice in the movie Barnyard and its TV spinoff. Also a show called WordGirl which I've never seen.

She truly is an angel.

an enchanting angel

I can't stand her.

She ruined the otherwise funny Comedians of Comedy for me.

I just can't get past her incredibly annoying voice. Even those two amazing fat snoring pugs on her couch don't make me want to watch more than 2 mins of that video. I just don't get it. :(

haha the ambient pug snoring throughout lends it such charm

her god impression was spot-on imo

Is Maria the new Gilbert Gottfried (as in, having a voice that turns people off)

Posehn and Patton ruined CoC more than Maria did (what I'm saying is her and Zach are funnier than those two guys).

^^ Crazy talk. Patton > Galifinakis > Posehn > Bamford

Patton is not funnier than Zach, who has comedy "in his bones" as I've heard some people describe it.

No way! I like Zach but Patton is about a million times funnier than all the others imo.

It makes me sad that there are people who don't like the Bammer. She seems so imminently likeable! And it seems weird to dislike her act because of her voice, since she probably only uses her real voice during about 1/3 of her act.

¯\(o_°)/¯ sorry!

honestly the first time i saw her i thought the weird voice thing was this horrible cutesy affectation, at least until she dropped into one of her impersonations and was like dang, now i see why she does it, it makes the clarity and precision of her characters so much more sharply defined

yeah it's like i see all this and it's a horrible cutesy affectation, way more 'impressive' (and annoying) than funny from what i've seen.

I met her in Chicago. I was walking down Broadway and saw her, said a celebrity hi, like you do. Learned she was playing a show abt 4 blocks away, ended up going (spectacular) and had a quick beer with her and a classmate of mine who apparently grew up in her same neighborhood afterwards. Just really sweet and really funny in normal conversation without being at all 'on'.

Dig all the CoC, but my ranking is prob Patton > Maria > Zach > Brian.

MB really shines on the 20 webisodes appended as a second disc of Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome, but there's a scant 90 minutes of polished material there, and the snippets of her standup I've seen are really patchy. She's really on in interviews, so I think her talent would be better served by improv rather than solo; I hope she can find Tracy Ullman or Amy Sedaris type vehicles. Mayber her present fans are recognizing part of themselves (or maybe relatives) in the Bammer character (diet coke slurping manic depressive OCD introvert spinster with pet surrogates), but as with kooky relatives, sooner or later we want them to vacate the couch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFHmNrxkuFU
The other 19 are related.

i think she wins a lot of points with me whenever she does a minnesotan character, is the thing.

I only discovered her this summer when I came across her How To Win! album on Spotify. She seems like she should really be insufferably grating and twee, but the album was pretty good tbh.
I see her new album is on there now. I'll check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhXYKwuFbkI&feature=related

^^^ so i think this is what she sounds like normally?

<3 her so much, she really has such an eye for detail in her writing beyond just her performing ability

If any of you ever get the chance to see her live, do it! Her comedy albums and tv appearances don't do her justice.

I think my favorite bit of hers is when she leaves phone messages as the baby jesus for her religious mother.

heeeEEEY thifh ifh BJ, theemth like we'we pwayin' phone tag here, gimme a jingwe-jangwe...

One more reason to love Duluth.

<3 her so much, she really has such an eye for detail in her writing beyond just her performing ability

― radric in manehattan (some dude), Sunday, December 6, 2009 12:44 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

having just watched the entire series of videos on youtube, i definitely agree

she and louis ck seem like the two most deeply honest comics i have seen lately

"but what if i'm a factory... and all i make is red flags?"

said on never not funny that she has a small recurring part in arrested development when it comes back

from the video site:

She recently recurred on the critically praised FX series Louie and will soon recur in the upcoming reboot of Arrested Development on Netflix.

Big cover story in this week's City Pages if yer interested:

http://www.citypages.com/2012-11-28/news/maria-bamford-puts-on-her-funny-face/

I like Maria Bamford just because she's from Port Hueneme, California.

Me too. One of like 3 good things from the 805 area code.

So I finally got around to picking up the first season DVD of Adventure Time (after seeing random individual episodes and clips for the past couple years) and I had no idea she was a frequent guest voice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v82xv7wbczo

er
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v82xv7wbczo

She has new direct-to-fan $5 download of a set filmed in her living room w/her parents as the only audience. It sounds self-indulgent and it kind of is, but it is also bizarre and intense and well worth a watch. She gets very personal in it. During the credits at the end, her parents share their thoughts on it and they are very sweetly midwestern – and also the mom criticizes some of her jokes for being mean.

Her new album is awesome. Tears of laughter listening to it on my commute yesterday.

This sounds amazing: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2016/05/maria_bamford_s_lady_dynamite_on_netflix_reviewed.html

i wish i found her funnier

Yay, can't wait to watch this! Although she evokes a lot of emotions at once for me. I wish I was friends with her.

this is good

I just binged the entire season of Lady Dynamite today and wow. It takes a few episodes to get going but I really loved this. It's by far my favorite of the original Netflix shows I've seen.

This rules

I love her standup so much but everything I've read about this makes it sound like everything I hate about Tina Fey's stuff, hoping this is not the case

yeah lady dynamite is incredible. harrowingly realistic depiction of mental illness embedded in a wacky and unstable reality

i was immediately sold once mark "sugar ray" mcgrath appeared

this show is so good

Can any cool LA people confirm/deny that Mark McGrath is actually a cool dude irl? Or did mria & the writers go after him specifically because he is not cool and that's the joke? And did they let him in on it? How do you do that without hurting his feelings? Or does he not have those.

"I can't do this anymore, I'm exhausted. I need a Sucrets."

i have never heard of her until a second ago. based only on the mother's day and Dropout clips above, she seems amazing. i will check out the netflix show soon!

!!! She is amazing! Please do yourself a favor and listen to her last standup album. The line about the manatee still resonates.

:) these duluth scenes are amazing

my dog is also named bird

this is hitting way too close to home

I thought the dog was called Bert

I was also pleasantly surprised to see Andri from Trapped making an appearance

I didn't make it past the annoying agent at the restaurant, and judging from this article she plays a pretty big role in the series? I'll probably pick it up again because I really like Bamford, but I like her because she's quiet, surreal and creepy. I don't know how much I can deal with the loud brashness.

i actually think it's ana gasteyer's crowning achievement.

mary kay place playing the guitar is kinda one of my favorite images of the year so far.

http://a.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/1280/poster/2016/05/3060041-poster-p-1-maria-bamford-has-termites-and-a-brand-new-netflix-series-called-lady-dynamite.jpg

this is wonderful!

I'm finding it compulsive and like it a lot overall, but still find some parts of this are cringingly awful

finished this last night. goes out on a high pt imo. she also had a great ep of comedy bang bang a week or two ago worth checking out.

for some reason the boyfriend at the end kept reminding me of zizek

yeah this turned out to be great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQudjZpMuyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trLQKcPr6Pk

for some reason the boyfriend at the end kept reminding me of zizek

― Mordy, Saturday, June 4, 2016 10:33 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha this is otm i feel like i was tryna place him and that's prob who i was thinking of

Shotgunned the rest of the season last night. Loved it. I can't think of anything else like this.

Ana Gasteyer is the best.

Can any cool LA people confirm/deny that Mark McGrath is actually a cool dude irl? Or did mria & the writers go after him specifically because he is not cool and that's the joke? And did they let him in on it? How do you do that without hurting his feelings? Or does he not have those.

"I can't do this anymore, I'm exhausted. I need a Sucrets."

― del griffith, Tuesday, May 24, 2016 3:23 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Im not that cool and I live in the SF Valley but so does Mark McGrath.. he's been a customer at the place where I get my hair cut and everyone says hes super nice.

I've only seen Bamford on Tim and Eric and I loved her on that, is this show anything like her thing there with the crazy gurning and nutso cat lady stuff?

Not really. Her T&E appearances aren't very representative of her standup/show, but she's always delightful in a myriad of ways.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPVkfKa9blGZYDfSZSf-p7g

"No time to pay!" is my new favourite line of all time in anything.

Maria's the best

otm

she cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjBu9u9WSnU

We will use recycled hard drives for the cameras. Locally-sourced greens for craft services. Ex-gang members will be running the day care center. Your life story will be told with such tenderness and attentiveness that we will end women's homelessness. It will be so unbelievably inventive and groundbreaking in its comedy, that alt-comedy Twitter will choke on its own jizz. And here is the cherry on the streaming sundae: we will focus on mental illness and we will destigmatize it forever!

^^

so good. The dog hypnotism theme song in episode 2 was killing me (plays out in credits later)

yeah! i watched the first episode of the new season today, and it was just as funny (if not funnier) than the first

....than most episodes from the first season, i meant.

Oh, had no idea there was a new season! Thanks, thread!

things that are good from this season include the pet goat on wheels, the jacket that makes cougar noises, and her dad's parking lot of solitude in which he may eat a Peanut Buster® Parfait in peace

also the epic Filipino wedding at Galagan Hall was really something

Bruce Ben-Bacharach is the best thing on this show. memoir now available as a Microsoft Word document.

bamford's mom as therapist in the episode where she analyzes Scott is a pretty apt portrayal of how some people are always diagnosing and putting others into boxes, to no real benefit of the person on trial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cX6lUdIXqE

Seeing her Saturday. Anyone catch this tour?

great show, Bamford's doing mostly new material - started off with saying she would ditch the mental health jokes as she's been happier for 7 years now. Didn't blunt the material, see her if you can

finally watching Lady Dynamite and it's really good

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