Maria Bamford

Maria Bamford

Maria Bamford is revered for her deeply personal and experimental comedy about mental illness.  She starred in the surreal, semi-autobiographical Netflix comedy series Lady Dynamite, about a comedian who suffers a nervous breakdown, and is the star of three unconventional hour-long stand-up specials: Weakness is the Brand, Old Baby and Maria Bamford, the special, special, special!  Maria was the first female comic to have two half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials and starred alongside Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis and Brian Posehn in the Comedy Central series The Comedians of Comedy and Netflix’s Comedians of Comedy: The Movie.  She also created and starred in the cult hit web series The Maria Bamford Show, in which she plays all the characters.  Maria was also Emmy-nominated for a guest appearance on the Netflix children’s series Ask the StoryBots.

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