Can I Finish?
Can I Finish? is a TV talk show in which different pundits discuss current events. Catch Kroll Show Wednesday nights at 10:30/9:30c on Comedy Central!
Here they are: The 50 actors, stand-ups, TV hosts, Twitterers, radio personalities, septuagenarians and sports analysts making us laugh the most right now. In making this list, we took the “now” part seriously, and focused on comedians’ recent work. That meant excluding some all-time greats who aren’t very active as funnymen (or aren’t doing their best work at the moment) in favor of people who are truly killing it out there these days.
This is a good list!
Whenever you think, ‘I’m a waste of space and I’m a burden’, that also describes the Grand Canyon. ‘Oh, but I owe people a lot of money and everybody hates me’ - hello, Europe! ‘Oh, but I killed someone!’ So have firecrackers and onion rings, who gives a shit? ‘Oh, but I’ve done some other horrible, unforgivable thing’ - there’s six billion of us, Google it. Somebody has done exactly what you’ve done, and they’re currently on a book tour. You’re never alone.
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| — | Maria Bamford (via huffpostcomedy) |
I have a joke about how people don’t talk about mental illness the way they do other regular illnesses. “Well, apparently Jeff has cancer. Uh, I have cancer. We all have cancer. You go to chemotherapy you get it taken care of, am I right? You get back to work.” Or: “I was dating this chick, and three months in, she tells me that she wears glasses, and she’s been wearing contact lenses all this time. She needs help seeing. I was like, listen, I’m not into all that Western medicine shit. If you want to see, then work at it. Figure out how not to be so myopic. You know?”
Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford | Slate
Noah’s Ark: Episode 1 featuring Marc Maron & Jonathan Katz
Darren Aronofsky is making a movie about Noah’s Ark starring Russell Crowe, but if you prefer your Noah to be less phone-throw-y and more Marc-Maron-y, look no further than this new animated series on Funny or Die.
Along with Maron as Noah, it features Jonathan Katz as God and Maria Bamford as a praying mantis.
