
Blake Bailey
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Oct 13, 2026
Maria Bamford is ambivalent about being your favorite comic’s favorite comic
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47:13Maria BamfordGUEST
But y- yeah, but just to keep going and making stuff and the, it, uh...
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47:19Maria BamfordGUEST
Yeah, and I love reading biographies, and that's what I always ask people who I go on a date with is, "What are you reading?" 'Cause I love, um, I just read the biography of Philip Roth, who is a problematic person, um, and so was the person who wrote the biography, Blake Bailey.
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47:35Maria BamfordGUEST
Anyways, but, um, but, you know, just see all the ebbs and flows of people's, uh, processes and then, then it, then you die.
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47:46Maria BamfordGUEST
And [laughs] then you don't have to worry about it too much, you know? That there's gonna be highs and lows, and, and there's always, always something fun happening like today I got to come here, and I got to pet a stuffed capybara, and I got to talk with Jesse.