
Maria Bamford
Maria Bamford is an American actress. She began appearing on variety and talk shows in the late '90s, landed her first primetime stand-up special on Comedy Central Presents in 2001, and released her second comedy album How to WIN! in 2007. Bamford also appeared in the documentary Misery Loves Comedy in 2015 and starred in films including The Special Special Special in 2014, Maria Bamford: Weakness is the Brand in 2020, and Maria Bamford: Local Act in 2023. She joined fellow alt-comics Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, and Brian Posehn for The Comedians of Comedy tour and provided the voice for the series Talking Tom and Friends.
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- Lovett or Leave It MAGA’s Uncivil War

Trump counterterrorism chief Joe Kent abandons ship, Tulsi Gabbard and Markwayne Mullin flounder in front of Congress, and Trump steers the nation straight into disaster. Meanwhile, Republicans are at each other’s throats and hitting below the belt. This week, Maria Bamford riffs on stand-up, mental health, and doing impressions of your dad you know he’ll hate. Utkarsh Ambudkar and Nico Santos give Lovett a taste of his own medicine, the medicine being spooky ghosts. And to close us out, we look back at it, with a juicy round of Second Thoughts.For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.
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About
- FROM
- Port Hueneme, CA, United States
- BORN
- September 3, 1970