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Maria Bamford* has a new Web series called Ask My Mom!, wherein questions asked by the viewers are answered by Maria, playing her mother.
Episodes thus far:
#1 - SAD SACK
#2 - SEX
#3 - RAISING KIDS
#4 - ABSTRACT
#5 - RELIGION
#6 - SHOW BUSINESS
#7 - FAVORITE
#8 - CHEERFUL
#9 - A PRIVATE MOMENT
Bonus Material:
Trailer
Hangout
Maria recently on Fresh Air
She also has a new album out called Ask Me About My New God!
Bonus Material:
Trailer
Hangout
Maria recently on Fresh Air
She also has a new album out called Ask Me About My New God!
I love Maria Bamford. Thanks for the news about the new album: it's downloading right now on iTunes. (I'll be kickinit later -- wait, is that a word?)
posted by anothermug at 7:25 PM on July 26, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by anothermug at 7:25 PM on July 26, 2013 [1 favorite]
I listened to the new album, as well as two olders ones, just this afternoon. I love her and think she's incredibly brave to discuss her mental illness.
posted by Friday14 at 7:38 PM on July 26, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Friday14 at 7:38 PM on July 26, 2013 [2 favorites]
I like Maria Bamford. She actually introduced me to a more obscure comic via an interview where she mentioned that she was aware of one decent impression of herself. There's a tiny clip on YouTube but because of this post I found this video and will enjoy all the videos with my wife this fine eve
posted by lordaych at 7:45 PM on July 26, 2013
posted by lordaych at 7:45 PM on July 26, 2013
I may have just binge-watched all 9 of these.
posted by Crystalinne at 7:45 PM on July 26, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Crystalinne at 7:45 PM on July 26, 2013 [2 favorites]
I love her stuff! Is the new album as good as Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome?
posted by cashman at 7:48 PM on July 26, 2013
posted by cashman at 7:48 PM on July 26, 2013
And like I mean love. Like all comics I really enjoy. They are masseurs of the soul.
posted by lordaych at 7:50 PM on July 26, 2013
posted by lordaych at 7:50 PM on July 26, 2013
I like it! I like her! I'm sure I'd find her mother hilarious IRL and so much like my own old-school Lib, Pollyanna-ish, Midwestern Catholic mom, and I think this project is REALLY good, and really funny and I cannot wait to watch all of the videos immediately like probably tonight. The only thing that I do not love here is this Big, Loud, Sit-Com catchphrase intro, and overly slick "Boom Bam Cha-cha-cha" production values I think belong in a less sincere, and much less interesting Funnyordie meme or whichever car insurance commercial the mall focus group voted most "irreverent" for a chance to win the Outback Steakhouse office party when this material is much better, more clever, and more honest than that.
#9 A Private Moment is amazing. Thanks for posting, Toekneesan.
posted by applemeat at 8:57 PM on July 26, 2013 [2 favorites]
#9 A Private Moment is amazing. Thanks for posting, Toekneesan.
posted by applemeat at 8:57 PM on July 26, 2013 [2 favorites]
YAY, THE BAMMER!
posted by Elsa at 9:25 PM on July 26, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Elsa at 9:25 PM on July 26, 2013 [1 favorite]
ヽ(＾▽＾)ノ
posted by ocherdraco at 10:14 PM on July 26, 2013
posted by ocherdraco at 10:14 PM on July 26, 2013
Sorry. Too short and unsubstantial to be funny. Couldn't she do more with this material?
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 11:10 PM on July 26, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 11:10 PM on July 26, 2013 [1 favorite]
This is cute (verging on twee), but my problem is that I cannot relate to the material on any level. My mother died 20+ years ago, so the whole "adult daughter amusingly exasperated with mother" trope pretty much bypasses anything I have experience with. I was afraid I would have this reaction, but I watched a few clips to give it a fair shake.
It's okay, I guess, but this kind of thing wasn't really made for people like me, was it?
But then, the only comic I've liked lately to is Patton Oswalt, who can send me into seizures of hilarity.
posted by suburbanbeatnik at 11:35 PM on July 26, 2013 [1 favorite]
It's okay, I guess, but this kind of thing wasn't really made for people like me, was it?
But then, the only comic I've liked lately to is Patton Oswalt, who can send me into seizures of hilarity.
posted by suburbanbeatnik at 11:35 PM on July 26, 2013 [1 favorite]
It's okay, I guess, but this kind of thing wasn't really made for people like me, was it?
I don't know that this is how most comedy (or art in general) is made, honestly; people make the work they make often based on the facts of their own life, regardless of whether that matches the experience of everyone else in the world. She's a woman in her 40s whose mother is alive and in her 70s; she's making comedy about being a woman in her 40s whose mother is alive and in her 70s.
Anyway, I think Maria Bamford is genuinely a genius (and not just because I also have a mother in her 70s).
posted by scody at 12:46 AM on July 27, 2013 [12 favorites]
I don't know that this is how most comedy (or art in general) is made, honestly; people make the work they make often based on the facts of their own life, regardless of whether that matches the experience of everyone else in the world. She's a woman in her 40s whose mother is alive and in her 70s; she's making comedy about being a woman in her 40s whose mother is alive and in her 70s.
Anyway, I think Maria Bamford is genuinely a genius (and not just because I also have a mother in her 70s).
posted by scody at 12:46 AM on July 27, 2013 [12 favorites]
Oh God, this is terrifying. Not because this is my mother now, but because this is me in 30 years.
posted by DarlingBri at 1:31 AM on July 27, 2013
posted by DarlingBri at 1:31 AM on July 27, 2013
Please know that the first 21 seconds of every one of these can be skipped... there, I just saved you, literally, MINUTES of your life that you can use facilitating world peace or something.
posted by HuronBob at 3:04 AM on July 27, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by HuronBob at 3:04 AM on July 27, 2013 [1 favorite]
i dunno i just listened to 'the older i get, the less i know, the more i ask my mom' nine times and now it's this nice jingle stuck in my head that i don't mind
posted by angrycat at 3:30 AM on July 27, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by angrycat at 3:30 AM on July 27, 2013 [2 favorites]
Maria Bamford on Paul Gilmartin's Metal Illness Happy Hour podcast.
posted by Thorzdad at 4:46 AM on July 27, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 4:46 AM on July 27, 2013 [1 favorite]
Maria Bamford is somebody else's mother? I'm flibberflabbered.
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:33 AM on July 27, 2013
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:33 AM on July 27, 2013
the intro is almost as long as the bit.
posted by fuzzypantalones at 6:02 AM on July 27, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by fuzzypantalones at 6:02 AM on July 27, 2013 [2 favorites]
There's always the Hangout where she improvises as her mother, answering questions for more than half an hour, and there's no intro to that one.
posted by Toekneesan at 6:09 AM on July 27, 2013
posted by Toekneesan at 6:09 AM on July 27, 2013
Wow, this is absolutely brilliant. I have to admit, I'm a sucker for comedians doing impressions of their moms.
posted by en forme de poire at 9:44 AM on July 27, 2013
posted by en forme de poire at 9:44 AM on July 27, 2013
The religion one is just, wow.
posted by en forme de poire at 9:51 AM on July 27, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by en forme de poire at 9:51 AM on July 27, 2013 [1 favorite]
Love her...this is great.
posted by schyler523 at 11:07 AM on July 27, 2013
posted by schyler523 at 11:07 AM on July 27, 2013
Debris! (Debree?)
posted by MoxieProxy at 1:10 PM on July 27, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by MoxieProxy at 1:10 PM on July 27, 2013 [2 favorites]
Yay!!
posted by shinyshiny at 2:12 PM on July 27, 2013
posted by shinyshiny at 2:12 PM on July 27, 2013
Reminds me of Happy Slip videos on YouTube. Just more Caucasian.
posted by mhh5 at 7:40 PM on July 27, 2013
posted by mhh5 at 7:40 PM on July 27, 2013
This is arresting. A solid slab of wonderful. Just her and her talent, no overdone production.
posted by applemeat at 4:07 PM on July 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by applemeat at 4:07 PM on July 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
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