Maria Bamford

Maria Bamford (born Maria Elizabeth Sheldon Bamford on September 3, 1970), who grew up at the Naval base in Port Hueneme, California and Duluth, Minnesota, is an American observational stand-up comedian. She attended Chester Park Elementary and Marshall High School in Duluth MN and went on to attend Bates College (Lewiston, ME), University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and received a degree in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She started stand-up in Minneapolis at the age of 19 at Stevie Ray's Comedy Cabaret. She has also been on a number of movies and television shows, including several voice appearances in cartoons. One of the best-known aspects of her act is the many different voices she uses, possessing the ability to imitate just about any type of female voice. Her comedy often takes the form of vignettes rather than the standard setup-punch line format.

Maria is currently on the documentary series Comedians of Comedy on Comedy Central and Showtime.