Maria Bamford

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Comedian Maria Bamford is back! We are thrilled as always to welcome her for another conversation with Bullseye. The stand-up, writer and actor joins us to talk about her two newest projects: the hour-long comedy special, Weakness Is The Brand and talk show, What's Your Ailment?! where she talks with fellow comedians and entertainers like Tig Notaro, Baron Vaughn and Rachel Bloom about how mental health has affected their lives. Maria also chats with us about finding human connection in unexpected ways like meeting Twitter followers for coffee and comedy feedback, dealing with hecklers, the healing power of chicken wings, and how marriage has changed her. All that and more on the next Bullseye!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jessie Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.6	I'm Jessie Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:21.9	I am really excited to welcome Maria Bamford back on Bullseye.
0:27.1	My favorite comedian in the world.
0:29.9	She is of course a veteran stand-up with eight specials during the day.
0:34.0	Her comedy is quite the experience.
0:36.6	She changes voices, sometimes almost like she's been possessed, channeling friends and family
0:41.8	members.
0:42.8	It's not what you'd expect to see on a stand-up stage, but it's also concrete and relatable.
0:49.8	She talks about career anxiety and relationships and mental illness, which she still struggles
0:54.7	with today.
0:56.2	The brilliance behind Maria's work is in its humanity.
1:00.8	What she been up to these days, while after working for two seasons as the star and creator
1:04.8	of Lady Dynamite on Netflix, Maria has another new special out.
1:09.2	It's called Weakness is the Brand.
1:11.4	It's out now on pretty much every platform.
1:14.5	Let's listen to a little bit from that new special.
1:16.7	It doesn't need much setup as you're about to hear.
1:18.8	Maria is making the case for why greatness.
1:21.9	Greatness in all things is overrated.
1:25.2	Why does everything have to be so good?
1:28.5	There's a lot of talking society, but that's amazing.
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