Maria Bamford, Chris Nashawaty, and Richard Linklater on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes beloved comedian Maria Bamford, who will soon perform her one of a kind stand-up at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Next, writer Chris Nashawaty talks about his book The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982. And for The Treat, Hit Man director Richard Linklater talks about a “how to” book from the 19th century that he lives by today.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:05.0	It's the Treatment.
0:11.0	It's the treatment.
0:15.0	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:16.0	I have the honor of having somebody who has been called by many people the funniest comedian
0:22.1	on the planet.
0:23.1	I happen to agree with that assessment.
0:25.2	Maria Bamford is my guest.
0:26.5	She's a best-selling New York Times office.
0:28.4	She's a star of a TV show that sounded like a black action film from the 70s, but it
0:33.0	was in fact, when the funniest shows on Netflix, Lady Dynamite.
0:36.8	She's doing a show at the Broad on
0:38.7	September 27th. I can't thank you enough for being here, Maria. Thank you so much.
0:42.6	Thank you, Elvis. First of all, you tried to throw me before we got started with a reference
0:47.9	you thought I wouldn't get that was from your book when you were talking about the giving tree.
0:53.0	And it's that thing in the book that you do in the act
0:55.3	and that specific reference to giving tree,
0:59.3	you are a master who I like to call the gasp laugh,
1:02.6	which is we gasp as we're laughing.
1:05.7	Because I think it's a tremendous thing
1:07.5	just because it so invites the audience into your state of your being. And I think
1:14.2	it's an incredible and specific talent and gift that you have. Thank you. Yeah. And anyone who hasn't
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