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1. Maria Bamford's One-Hour Homemade Christmas Special!
2 years ago
For you, my friends, a free- ONE HOUR HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - enjoy and download at your leisure- it's yours. Sell it at the Flea Market out of the back of your van with packs of socks and old phones!

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  • Hey my ltttle sis!!! Awesome special! How do you keep Blossie and Bert so calm?? They are clearly mesmerized! Global handpuppet-try has reached a new fantasticness!!!! Sarah
    p.s. Even though you have a SEVERE comedy disability- we will expect you to bus your own dishes at Chirstmas- nice try though.
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  • Joey Dundale 2 years ago
    This is going to be the best Christmas ever!
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  • David McQuary 2 years ago
    AWESOME! as per usual.
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  • Troy Conrad plus 2 years ago
    I can't believe I randomly found this after I googled "Bammalammadingdong"
  • Tyler Sherlin 10 months ago
    lies.
  • E. James Ford 7 months ago
    Truth. Just googled it. Success.
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  • Barry Kettery 2 years ago
    Maria dear,
    You'll be happy to hear I'm managing my urge to stalk you with some measure of success. I made a special Maria sock puppet and we have sex 22 times an hour. Is that obsessive? Probably not. Call me!
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  • mira h 2 years ago
    amazing way to spend an (approximate) hour. love!
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  • Pugfoot 2 years ago
    Hi Maria - Big fan here! Your special filled me with the spirit of Christmas. I've long appreciated your improv, acting, and voice talents and have been moved (really) by your willingness to display thoughts and observations that people don't dare share. But now, through this gift of Christmas Joy, I've seen your feet and the overwhelming enthusiam of your pugs.

    I am in the process of winning your Mom over. I am sure that she has mentioned me - she talks to me in the e-mail. Once I fully earn her confidence, I'll seek out your sister. I already know her name; it's Sarah, which will be easy to remember since it's my Mom's name and will give me an advantage as a nonthreatening foot in the door. I'll sneak Tabasco onto her fingernails and win your affection for my ability to improve the happiness of every person ever to ever see Duluth Minnesota. That's the plan anyway.

    Soon, I will move from "out-of-town." You will then have a choice of sharing toaster pastries (blueberry, but, not those horrible frosted ones) with me in either of our homes, or telling me to get the f away from you. Tough call I know, but I am recently separated and the Nigerian barrister took all of my money. I'm saving up for shoes and chocolate . . . how can you say "No" to that! - Rick
  • Tyler Sherlin 10 months ago
    literally too creative.
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  • Steve Regan 2 years ago
    Call the operator for Christmas. Could be the best gift of the season.
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  • Jack Hoff 2 years ago
    Hello Maria - It's me! Your fan from the far east! Well, not the far, far east. I'm talking Boston, not Shanghi. Anyway, did you know you have the longest toes of anyone I know? Ok, well, I don't KNOW know you, but I've been following you for a few years so I guess I kind of know you. Ok, not FOLLOWING following you - that sounds creepy. I mean I have taken an interest in your comedy and your... er, um, beauty (but don't tell my wife). Ok, before I get in trouble, Merry Christmas Maria. Thanks for sharing this wonderful gift. I just wish I had something for you in return :-( . Peace to you and yours.
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  • The Duluth Scene plus 2 years ago
    awesome.
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  • joe 2 years ago
    hi maria

    thanks for this great christmas gift. sorry i didn't get you anything except my adoration, but you already had that
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  • Joe Moya plus 2 years ago
    awsome improv...
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  • Daniel Hayek staff 2 years ago
    Dear lord you are amazing. Thank you for reminding me that the part of myself that talks out loud while driving my parents Toyota Camry is completely healthy and wonderful.
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  • Denis Grignon 2 years ago
    Brilliant as always, Ms Bamford. Nice to see your finger puppet show of the world's cultures - it's so much more than just listening to it on your CD. "Everybody's Maaaddddd." Good gravy, I love that line.
    Please please please come to Toronto or Ottawa or Montreal. Soon. My wife and I will be there. Make a sidetrip to Reaboro and we'll even feed you.
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  • Liz Reeves 2 years ago
    So incredibly talented. (the last time I said that was in reference to Menudo)
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  • Nancy Thacker 2 years ago
    Oh Maria, we love you so...nay, we worship you.
    By "we" I mean my 16 year old daughter and moi.
    Thanks for the best X-mas present ever!

    XO,
    Unemployed Single Mother in Michigan.
    GO USA!!
    PS: I want to be your roadie.
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  • darren n 2 years ago
    this is your funniest stuff ever. i love everything.
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  • Critter Jones 2 years ago
    I stayed up way too late last night watching this video, then woke up and watched it again - I still laughed out loud the second time. Bravo. More!
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  • Loretta Greene 2 years ago
    Perfectly hilarious. Thanks for putting the "Christ" back in Christmas, Maria Bamford!
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  • heybuddy 2 years ago
    I watched half of it, fell asleep, and dreamed you had a live show near me and afterwards, the crowd parted as I stepped toward you. I said something in dream language and you did the same. Man, your stuff is getting to me. My dreams were supposed to be off limits to strangers but you have made yourself entirely welcome in them. More, maistro!
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  • Thomas Meade 2 years ago
    Well. This special went to some very strange places. Thank you for posting it.
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  • Paul Isakson 2 years ago
    This was so, so, so good.
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  • Alec McNayr 2 years ago
    Glorious. I feel like I stole something. This was THAT good.
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  • Family vids plus 2 years ago
    Heelarious! Loved the pug stuff around minute 40. I was dying. Will try to make it to the Atlanta show in Feb.
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  • Kevin Mosley plus 2 years ago
    Thanks! I have to watch all of it after work.

    I actually saw that TV commercial on Thanksgiving day at my Grandparents house during the football game. I don't remember what you were trying to sell. I think it was Sears or some shit like that. I was just shocked to see you in it.
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  • Jerry Villella 2 years ago
    I hope you get lots more opportunities to "sell out to the man" because you are way ahead in the giving back. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, and all the sweet spirits within you!
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  • Sunshine 2 years ago
    I met your mom last night at a party with my hubby (you know, the one i met 14 years ago and i just knew he was "the one" heehee). She mentioned you do these great impressions of her and your dad and are really funny. So, we checked out your video - omg!! your impression of her is JUST like her - that is soooo hilarious!! We are new-to-town Duluth do-gooders and asked your mom, if we had kids one day and took them with us to do volunteer work in developing countries, how they would turn out? And, from the looks of it...pretty darn funny (and yes, I mean funny ha-ha)!!! Thanks for the video and the many many laughs. - Shannon, a.k.a. "Sunshine"
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  • Erin Karl 2 years ago
    Maria! Get out of my head and stop telling everyone my secrets!!!!!!!

    Seriously Maria, you are so talented and you have really brought me A LOT of joy during some REEEAAALLY hard times. Literally, it was like your comedy and The Office that kept me going for a while there, so THANK YOU for being AMAZING!!! Looking forward to your show in Atlanta in Feb, we will be coming up from Tampa to see you!! Merry Christmas!!!!
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  • Erin Karl 2 years ago
    Oh PS! The Target commercials were awesome!
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  • dalas verdugo staff 2 years ago
    Wow, awesome! So glad you came to Vimeo!
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  • D@n S. 2 years ago
    Thanks, Maria. You rule! Happy holidays --
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  • Matt Perrine 2 years ago
    We love you, Maria -- thanks for this awesome gift!
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  • Merlin Mann plus 2 years ago
    Sublime. Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you and the pugs.
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  • Shalom 2 years ago
    I've watched this twice in a row. My face hurts from laughing. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
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  • Kirk in Phx 2 years ago
    Hey Maria I saw you in those Target commercials and I don't know how you got your ugly sister to agree to be in them with you but oh well and I got SO much laundry folded watching this and I ate some chocolate too! OK thanks!

    Maria, we're watching your e-mails for your next visit to Phoenix -- we can never get enough! I hope this video-gift gets you so much work that you regret it a year from now!


    "...because there are no flat chests in space..."
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  • Doug Frye 2 years ago
    Loved the special, Bammer! Thanks so much and Merry Christmas to you!
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  • Don Schaffner 2 years ago
    So incredible. Thanks for this gift.
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  • TDM 2 years ago
    Love it love it love it.

    And I, too, have seen your commercials. Although I don't remember what they were for, either. K-Mart or Target, I think. I remember red. But whatevs!
    Sell out a bunch more, Seeing you on the telly is always a kick.
    Also, come to Kansas, where myself and my younger brother would likely be your only patrons. Whoo!
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  • Barry Edwards 2 years ago
    Why aren't you queen of the world? So goddamn funny.
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  • tio pete 2 years ago
    she can't... stand up.
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  • Jason Reichl 2 years ago
    Love.
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  • Patrick Patterson 2 years ago
    I always hope to see you on any comedy show. I saw you on TV a few years ago, one can't forget you. You stand there in your little frame, in one place and change into thirty personalities. PT Barnum, Red Skelton, can't hold a candle to you! In one square foot you bring on the the greatest show on earth.
    Thanks for my Christmas present.
    Thank you your the best,
    Pat Patterson
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  • Steve Groh 2 years ago
    I got this gift a few months late....and it was like Christmas all over again. Saw your routine on the John Oliver show and started stalking you on-line...in a docile, well adjusted way. GREAT STUFF! Hope we get another free gift next Christmas.
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  • James Roberts 2 years ago
    God I love the way your brains wired-Please don't ever change cause there's a lot of dirty urinals out there. Can't wait to see you again Hugs James
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  • thank you for the laughs!
    priceless
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  • Kat Schwartz 1 year ago
    Sometimes I think everyone sucks, and then I watch this, and feel rejuvenated about humanity. Fabulous gift.
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  • james myers 1 year ago
    selling out to da man has sooo many fringes, House, Medical Coverage & I'm gussin the bux for stuff like this.
    My friends like this...I could save MB soooo much time writing new material by simply introducing her to my friends who already speak in the those voices, & almost none of whom have gone inpatient...in the last decade or so.
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  • Nicasio Nakamine 1 year ago
    What a jerk! I didn't open yer gift until now!
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  • Rob Cioffi plus 11 months ago
    Nice job on the camera work. Kudos to tech people who made this happen. I know Maria does not read these comments.
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  • Doug kahn 11 months ago
    This is really awesome!
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  • Tyler Sherlin 10 months ago
    More.
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  • DandyJon 4 months ago
    Maria, you are awesome.
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  • shannon jenkins 3 months ago
    Oh Maria, I love you to bits and pieces.
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  • Jim Zito plus 2 months ago
    Thanks Maria. It's so difficult to find Pug videos. Especially during the holidays.
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