That Crazy Target Lady is Back: It Must be Christmas Time | Eastern North Carolina Now

   Just today, November 17, 2011, I am witness to those zany Target commercials, with the maniacal Black Friday shopper for the 3rd year now, and I'm still laughing. Maria Bamford really cracks me up.

   Maria is a rare, matchless woman, with a bizarre sense of funny. Her comedy is an eclectic blend of total shock, with a sincere sense of the genuine expression of all that fills her ego - an ego that teeters wildly on her personal axis of weird.

    Hunter S. Thompson once, inadvertently, so famously rendered the description of what comprises who Maria is: "When the going gets tough ... the weird turn pro."
Maria Bamford upon the stage of the old Turnage Theater     photo by Stan Deatherage

   Well, Maria is definitely a pro, and funnier than a three legged man in a Rum drinking contest. These Target commercials are the real deal of funny, and reminded me so much of her stand-up act when she played the Turnage Theater last Winter, just before the first days of Spring.

   I leave you with BCN's journal of that show of Maria's, mostly in images.
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