Maria Bamford Is Feeling Better

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Maria Bamford has been performing stand-up comedy for 30 years and just keeps getting better. Her latest hour-long special ‘Weakness Is the Brand’ finds her at the top of her game, delivering operatic bits about her ongoing mental health struggles and relentless drive to be a good person in the world. On this episode, we talk about how she arrived at relative stability, the challenges that female comics still face in a male-dominated industry, how she felt when Netflix canceled her autobiographical show ‘Lady Dynamite’ after two seasons and a lot more—including an unvarnished take on Louis C.K.

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0:00.0	I don't know why I'm being so critical.
0:02.0	I'm not the greatest. I have a bit of a tremor that's distracting in a performer.
0:07.0	Why don't you take a medication to offset the hundreds of medications they're already on
0:11.0	so that I feel more comfortable?
0:16.0	To which I'd like to say weakness is the brand.
0:24.5	And that brand is strong.
0:27.6	Holy moly Maria Bamford is here.
0:29.1	It's the last laugh.
0:31.0	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.
0:35.2	When people ask me who my favorite stand-up comedian is,
0:39.0	the first name that always comes to mind is Maria Bamford.
0:43.1	I've probably seen her perform live more than any other comedian,
0:48.2	partly because she goes up in so many big and small venues all over L.A., but also because I always want to see what she's working on.
0:52.3	30 years into a career that started when she was a teenager doing open mics in Minnesota,
0:57.0	she's always funny, utterly fearless, and completely unpredictable.
1:02.0	Maria's unique abilities are on full display in her latest hour-long special, Weakness is the Brand,
1:09.0	which premieres this week across several streaming platforms.
1:12.5	She's also currently hosting a web series called What's Your Alment for Topic.com,
1:17.7	in which she talks to other celebrities about their shared mental health issues.
1:22.5	I'll be honest, Maria is kind of an acquired taste.
1:26.7	She's either your absolute favorite, or you find her kind of an acquired taste. She's either your absolute favorite or you find
1:29.4	her kind of baffling. The same will probably be true for this episode. If you love this podcast
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