Maria Bamford is one of the most exciting stand-up comedians working today. You may have seen her starring in her own Netflix series, Lady Dynamite, based on her own life, or Target’s holiday season TV commercials, based on your own. Bamford has been on the front lines of revolutionizing stand-up comedy, from The Comedians of Comedy Tour with Patton Oswalt, to performing for her parents in The Special Special Special, and making web series such as The Maria Bamford Show for Super Deluxe. Maria has been open about her mental health as well as her financial health, and we talked about as much as we could between her shows at The Bell House in Brooklyn. So let’s get to it!

Maria Bamford

This week on the TYF! podcast, we talked to Jim Gaffigan & Jeannie Gaffigan about how they met, how they collaborate, and how Jim sets new challenges for himself with his standup with every special. 
We also talk about the challenge of writing standup about Donald Trump. and how it's a lot like walking the line when joking about religion. 
And about Jeannie's fight with a brain tumor, from which she came back in a year to writing, producing, and directing.

PLUS, storyteller Kevin Allison regales us with a tale about the classic problem of, as the song laments, looking for love in all the wrong places.

AND, Liam give another epic ramble about his early days of working on the road.

Maria Bamford

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