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I'm Jesse Thorne, it into Bullseye, you hear interviews with people like Tom Hanks or Tina Faye,

Rock Kim, Smoky Robinson.

This week, though, we aren't interviewing any of those people

and in fact we are doing no interviews at all.

We are instead playing for you clips from some

2023's best stand-up comedy records. And first up is, I'm just gonna say it, the best of the best, Maria Bamford.

If you've listened to Bullseye with Jesse Thorne for a while,

you know that I, Jesse Thorne, and Maria Bamford's biggest fan. Nothing but love for the bammer here. She's been featured

on our show many times. Most recently I talked with her about her delightful memoir, Sure I'll join your cult. Maria's comedy mixes deep feelings with

almost surreal flights of fancy. It's intensely personal and also features a lot of

funny voices including frankly her funny voice which is real but

funny honestly no greater genius in stand-up than Maria Bamford.

Let's hear a clip.

This is from her terrific 2023 record crowd pleaser, and that title, this is important,

is in all caps. She's talking about her mom.

I, uh, my first call was my family.

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