Download Maria -- plus Kristen Schaal, Bonnie McFarlane and more in an exclusive iTunes Six-Pack
What 39-year-old comedian earned "Best of the Web" from Salon.com and the
Download Maria -- plus Kristen Schaal, Bonnie McFarlane and more in an exclusive iTunes Six-Pack
What 39-year-old comedian earned "Best of the Web" from Salon.com and the Harvard Crimson for her web series "The Maria Bamford Show?" What entertainer is one of Variety's "10 Comics to Watch" and was voted by Comedy Central viewers as one of their "Top 10 Favorite Comics?" What comic has appeared on both Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion" and in Dave Eggers' DVD magazine, "Wholphin?" Maria Bamford! That's who!
Maria started her performing arts career in Duluth, Minnesota at the age of 11 where she starred in the Chester Park Elementary production of "How the West Was REALLY Won!" A short 24 years of self-discovery and secretarial work later and look at her now! Maria is the first female comic to have two half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials. She starred in the Comedy Central series, "The Comedians of Comedy" and Netflix's "Comedians of Comedy: The Movie." She has made multiple late night appearances on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," as well as not-so-late appearances on Premium Blend, "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn" and "The World Comedy Tour: Melbourne 2003." Maria also appears regularly on Adult Swim's "Tim and Eric: Awesome Show" and an upcoming spinoff called "Check It Out" (starring John C. Reilly).
Maria regularly performs comedic voiceovers for such cartoons as Fox's "Sit Down Shut Up!," Cartoon Network's "Adventure Time," Nickelodeon's "CatDog," Disney Channel's "Kick Buttowski," PBS's Emmy-winning series "Word Girl" and Nickelodeon's "Back at the Barnyard."
Maria's writing has been featured in The Onion, The Melbourne Age and LA Weekly. (You can read archived versions on her site.) She is currently working on a book about depression and mental illness with funny experiences of her own and other comedians that will be published by Quack! Media. Her new CD, "Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome" was released by Comedy Central Records in April 2009.
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Her dad is really just a series of sound effects.
Maria Bamford's mother is praying for a husband for her -- at her request.
It's amazing how many people on dating sites enjoy fine dining.
In one sentence, who is Maria Bamford?
For breakfast, Maria eats a mug of chocolate chip ice cream for a sweet power surge.
Thinking about having kids, got the names picked out. They're
gonna be Donut and The Golden Hen. I know what you're saying, 'How do you know...
Nobody's ever offered me money to have sex. Sure -- a Bud Light
and a basket of curly fries, but not cash.
I need a lip color that keeps up with my busy schedule. In the
time it takes to notice the wide discrepancy between my salary and that of my male...
I'm afraid that fulfilling my potential would really cut into
my sitting around time.
Sometimes I worry I don't want to get married as much as I'd
like to be dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough.
I just want, like, a really nice guy who has, like, a job...
and the missing half of this golden amulet.
Like most Americans, I like to help others while being
televised. I'd like to go to an area of the world where they really need my help. Like,...
This is my anxiety song: If I keep the kitchen floor clean, no
one will die/as long as I clench my fists at odd intervals, then the darkness within...
I actually thought about getting breast implants because I'm a
radical, militant feminist and a hypocrite, it turns out.
Thirty ways to shape up for summer -- number one: eat less;
number two: exercise more; number three... What was I talking about? I'm so hungry...
