Episode 18: Maria Bamford, and Fighting for Baltimore

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, two stories out of Baltimore: “The Wire” creator David Simon drives the city with Jelani Cobb, and David Remnick talks to the thirty-year-old mayoral candidate DeRay Mckesson. Also, Maria Bamford discusses mental illness and comedy, and the engineering evangelist Limor Fried tries to convince you—yes, you—to build some electronics.

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0:00.0	From 38.
0:04.0	I'm excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revelation.
0:11.0	It's pretty huge.
0:14.0	It's making the short.
0:15.0	It's pretty huge.
0:16.0	You have to be good if you have a source for it?
0:17.0	Yeah, you have the telegraph.
0:19.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:28.1	I'm David Remnick. Thanks for joining us on The New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:32.3	Comedy right now is in a tricky place.
0:35.6	Anytime you talk with a comedian now, you hear how they're more and more
0:39.5	aware of whether a joke might offend someone or anyone, really. Sometimes, as in the case of Amy
0:46.1	Schumer, that leads them to reconsider old jokes or get rid of them entirely. Or as in the case of
0:51.4	Jerry Seinfeld, it gets his backup and he gets angry about what he calls political correctness.
0:57.8	Maria Bamford's comedy will make you uncomfortable in an entirely different way.
1:03.3	She doesn't drop a lot of F-bombs. She doesn't go for race jokes. None of the usual hot buttons.
1:09.0	But when she jokes about the pain of her own mental illness or a suicide attempt, you're just not sure you should be laughing, but you just can't help it.
1:20.5	Bamford is very funny.
1:22.0	A comedian's comedian celebrated by no less a pro than Stephen Colbert.
1:26.8	I'm here with Maria Bamford. Maria, thank you so much for being here.
1:30.1	Thank you for having me on the program. Oh, my gosh. You know, I hope I don't embarrass you
1:34.4	when I say that you are my favorite comedian on planet Earth. I heard you years and years ago
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