{"id":9350,"date":"2016-01-05T22:13:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T03:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=9350"},"modified":"2016-01-08T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:50:09","slug":"top-50-stand-up-comedians-maria-bamford-mitch-hedberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/01\/05\/top-50-stand-up-comedians-maria-bamford-mitch-hedberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: Maria Bamford, Mitch Hedberg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image courtesy of the “Maria Bamford – Opening a Pot Clinic” video posted on YouTube.<\/p><\/div>\n

16. Maria Bamford<\/span><\/p>\n

Maria Bamford is \u2026 weird. She is so strange, in fact, that one of the voices she does is of a normal white girl. Her aggressively awkward stylings set the perfect mood to wonder aloud about how weird \u201cnormal\u201d people really are.<\/span><\/p>\n

Willing to come off as unattractive in a traditional sense (though, I\u2019ve always had a little crush on her), she doesn\u2019t tell stories about random hookups or the club scene or social media, instead harping on self-deprecation that only finds solace in the hope that the world is crazier than she is.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like Aziz Ansari and Patton Oswalt, she is a counter-culturalist but she bends the form more than either of those two. She never goes fully into the Kristen Schaal\/Andy Kaufman sphere but approaches a kind of anti-comedy with regularity and is known for screwing with her audiences. She\u2019s one of the few people in any form who can satirize their craft while perfecting it. <\/span><\/p>\n

Maria Bamford proudly lets her \u201cfreak flag\u201d fly and reminds us that we are all a little weird.<\/span><\/p>\n