Maria Bamford

I watched John Oliver's New York Standup Show -- I'm not a big fan of standup comedy, it just happened to be on -- and I thought Maria Bamford was alarmingly funny, or maybe funnily alarming. At one point she did an impersonation of a female comedian doing a set of cliche jokes for a comedy club audience (my boyfriend this, shopping that, etc.), and it was really trippy, because everyone in the audience was laughing, but you couldn't tell if they were laughing at the jokes, or laughing at the fact that people laugh at jokes like that, or some combination. Nice.