COMEDY & IMPROV

Home > COMEDY & IMPROV > Maria Bamford and Her Austin Friends

• Tweet
• Outlook
• ICAL
• PRINT
• Email
• Feedback

• RSS

• Official Website
• Buy Tickets
• Add to My Favorites

Maria Bamford and Her Austin Friends

Presented by Cap City Comedy Club at Cap City Comedy Club

January 27-January 28, 2010

Add Review/Comment
Comment on Facebook

If we weren’t in the business of presenting comedy shows each week, with a number of those shows featuring female comics, then we would feel totally comfortable saying that Maria Bamford is the funniest young female comic working today. But that’s really not very cool or diplomatic for the web site of a comedy club to make that statement, so let’s just say she’s one of the funniest, and avoid ruffling any feathers--’cause no one would dispute that statement. Heck, there’s plenty of support for that stance if you look no further than her resume. For starters, no less an authority than venerable showbiz publication Variety named her one of the “Top Ten Comics To Watch.” Then there are her television credits, which include multiple appearances on both “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” plus her own half-hour special on Comedy Central that was rated Number Five overall in the network’s viewer poll of favorite comedians. Pretty damn good. But wait, there’s more. On the festival side of the equation, she’s not only looking enormously strong, but also immensely acclaimed: Just this summer alone, she made standout appearances at the Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival in Montreal--widely considered the world’s biggest, most prestigious comedy event--and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she received rave reviews like The Scotland Herald gushing about her “brilliantly written gags,” noting “Bamford has that blend of quiet indignation and almost-visionary insight that characterise all the best US comics.” Needless to say, perhaps, she’s previously appeared at HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Those are just some of the credits (not counting her film acting work, like in “Lucky Numbers” and “Stuart Little” or her voice work in such animated series as “CatDog”) on paper. On stage, she’s whip-smart and wholly original as she takes on temping, sexual harassment, corporate lackeys and a slew of other topics, weaving in and out of characters and voices with truly deft precision.