Maria Bamford on Stand-Up, Netflix and Mental Health
Maria Bamford has been performing stand-up comedy for more than 30 years and just keeps getting better.
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Show Notes
Maria Bamford has been performing stand-up comedy for more than 30 years and just keeps getting better. Her most recent hour-long special ‘Weakness Is the Brand’ found 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. In 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.
This episode was originally published on January 28th, 2020.
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