Maria Bamford's work has drawn critical acclaim and controversy because her humor often uses self-deprecating and dark topics, including her dysfunctional family, depression, anxiety, suicide, and mental illness.
19 Facts About Maria Bamford
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Maria Bamford voices Talking Ginger and Talking Becca in the Talking Tom and Friends web series.
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Maria Bamford voiced Tito, the Anxiety Mosquito, in Big Mouth.
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Maria Bamford was born on September 3,1970, at the Port Hueneme Naval Base in Port Hueneme, California.
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Maria Bamford grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, attending Chester Park Elementary and Duluth Marshall School.
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Maria Bamford became the first female member of the college's improvised comedy group, The Improverts.
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Maria Bamford began stand-up comedy in Minneapolis, Minnesota at age 19, at Stevie Ray's Comedy Cabaret.
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Maria Bamford was the voice of Shriek DuBois in Nickelodeon's CatDog, a wide selection of secondary characters in Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, and Mrs Botsford, Violet, and Leslie on the long running PBS educational series WordGirl.
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Bamford was featured in the documentary series The Comedians of Comedy on Comedy Central and Showtime, and appears in short skits titled The Maria Bamford Show, broadcast on the website Super Deluxe.
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Maria Bamford appears on the comedy compilation CD Comedy Death-Ray.
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Maria Bamford plays both herself and her mother, who answers questions sent in by fans.
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Maria Bamford voiced Pema in Nickelodeon cartoon The Legend of Korra.
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Maria Bamford did not write any episodes, but was often in the writers' room, discussing ideas and "hanging out".
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Maria Bamford is the most unique, bizarre, imaginative comedian out there right now.
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Maria Bamford is best known for her portrayal of her dysfunctional family and self-deprecating comedy involving jokes about depression and anxiety.
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Maria Bamford's act is a series of monologues and mini skits performed rapid fire and often without regard for transition.
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Maria Bamford has one sister, Sarah Seidelmann, who is a life coach and Shamanic healer.
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Maria Bamford has a private residence in Los Angeles, California, and a home in Altadena, California.
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Maria Bamford loves pugs, and typically owns at least one senior pug at any given time.