stand-up comedian
and voice actor. She is best known for her portrayal of her dysfunctional family
and self-deprecating comedy involving jokes about depression. Her comedy style draws upon surrealism
and incorporates voice impressions that good-naturedly mock various character types. Comic Patton Oswalt
has called her one of the most creative and original comics working today.
Bamford was born at the naval base in Port Hueneme, California
, where her father Joel was serving as a Navy doctor.
I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too.
I'm not looking for much [in a guy], I just want, like, a really nice guy who has, you know, like a job... and the missing half of this golden amulet.
S-s-sure I'll join your cult. [nervous smile]
[impersonating her mother] Now, Maria, if a boy doesn't like you, I would just like you to know that he is intimidated by your beauty, because you are the most beautiful girl in the whole world and if you would stop doing impersonations of me I think other people would see that...
I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit that I don't need, and I refuse to share with others.
I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralysed by hope.