New CD Out!
» Live Performance from 'Burning Bridges' Tour
Currently on tour, too! Check the official schedule page for details on when you can come on down and see me, darlin'!
What 35-year old comedian stars in the new Comedy Central series, "The Comedians of Comedy Tour" (as well as in the independent film of the same title out on NETFLIX), is in Variety's TOP TEN COMICS TO WATCH, has been the talk of Montreal, Edinburgh, Aspen, Kilkenny and Melbourne Comedy Festivals and was voted by Comedy Central viewers as one of their Top Ten Favorite Comics?
ME! MARIA BAMFORD! That's who, sweetpeas!
Now I will go on about myself in the 3rd person!
Maria started her performing arts career in Duluth, Minnesota at the age of 11 where she starred in the Chester Park Elementary production of "How the West Was REALLY Won!" (Conservative message that didn't include the perspective of indigenous nations). A short 24 years of self-discovery and secretarial work later, look at her now! She is certainly on some kind of predestined journey!
NETFLIX "The Comedians of Comedy Tour" (To be released November 2005)
Comedy Central's "The Comedians of Comedy Tour" (To be released in 2006)
Los Angeles Magazine's COMIC TO WATCH (2005)
LA WEEKLY Pick of the Week
Variety's Top Ten Comics to Watch
Late Nite with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Comedy Central Presents...Maria Bamford
Comedy Central: Premium Blend, USO Tour, World Comedy, Tough Crowd
International TV: ROVE LIVE, THE GLASS HOUSE, THE GALA
Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor on PRI
Best in the Festival Melbourne Comedy Festival Winner
And, she is currently starring in a pilot pitch by Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder for animated development and it's looking very positive. It's tentatively titled "The Trial". That's right! Maria's talent is not limited to comedy!
She also performs comedic voiceovers! She is a series regular on the animated Nickelodeon series CatDog and has been a guest star on Oxygen series Hey Monie!, the Cartoon Network's Home Movies and played a spider in Charlotte's Web II (a straight-to-video deal).
And recently, Maria landed a role as "The Neurotic Farm Wife" in the upcoming animated feature by Steve Odekerk, BARNYARD . Some of her other credits include, STUART LITTLE 2 (small part), LUCKY NUMBERS with John Travolta (pretty big part), Dharma and Greg (very small part) and The Trouble with Normal (medium-sized part). Yeah, pretty awesome, huh?
Currently (as of 9/13/05), Maria is writing a book-version of her one-person sitcom (see reviews!) in Adelaide, Australia and running an open mike at this downtown Adelaide restaurant called, "The Lizard Lounge" on Thursday nights. Please come along! Sign up is at 6:30 PM and show goes 'til 9PM and then there's Freestyle Jazz! They have nice cakes and savories, good on you, etc.
On a more personal note, Maria is taken! No more "singles" material! Thank God! Or thank the being/spirit/alchemy that creates goodness and love! We're not really sure!
