Maria Bamford Wants You to Know How Much Money She Makes (Rerun)

Good One

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

A lot of people tell us we should talk to Maria Bamford, and you know what? They're right. They're so right that we're re-airing the episode she was on two years ago. The interview focuses on the commencement speech she gave at the University of Minnesota—her alma mater—in which she discussed the negotiations that took place to arrive at her fee for said speech, along with a long list of the mistakes she'd made in her life. Maria talks frankly about her financial status, and how to deal with being lowballed. The conversation also touches on Maria's relationship with her audience, the evolution of her specials, and how her struggle with unwanted thoughts affected her comedy. This episode is one of the most detailed looks at the business side of comedy, and is a must listen for anyone who's ever needed to negotiate their monetary worth in any field. Also included: a fart noise. Watch the speech here. Follow Maria on Twitter and Instagram, and check out her live dates on her website. This episode originally aired on October 27th, 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a head, a podcast about jokes. I'm your host, Jesse David Fox.
0:20.0	This is the final episode of our mini rerun season and I hope it was as fun for you all to look back as it was for me.
0:27.0	Right now we're still working on the next season of new episodes.
0:30.0	We're really trying to figure out how we can build on what we've already done, and we'd love to hear from you.
0:34.7	Who should we have on?
0:35.9	Be it a specific person or a type of comedian?
0:38.7	Should we do more panels, more live shows?
0:40.8	If so, where?
0:42.2	Please, let me know.
0:44.1	Good one is the thing I'm most proud of in my career,
0:46.0	and it means so much that you listen, so I am open.
0:49.8	But until then, we still have this week's episode and is my interview with Maria Bamford.
0:55.0	I don't know, sometimes I think maybe Maria is the best end of comedian working right now.
0:59.4	I know I literally said that pretty lightly, but I don't say that lightly. I don't know what it mean for someone to be the best stand of comedian
1:07.6	but a case can be made for Maria she has a completely unique
1:11.8	revolutionary take on the art form and the skill set be it vocally, physically, joke writing eingly to articulate her vision to a large audience, but not so large that she's forced to water herself down to appeal to people completely removed from her worldview, but significant.
1:30.0	She is political in her way and just so undeniably personal, her darkness is real. is
1:35.0	who she is political in her way and just so undeniably personal.
1:34.0	Her darkness is really dark, but she tells her story because one,
1:38.0	that is who she is as an artist, and two,
1:40.0	because she knows an audience could be better by it.
1:42.0	For the joke we talk about in this week's rerun, she takes that last point, literally, as
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