West Coast comedians Andy Kindler and Maria Bamford are joining forces once again this spring. “I’m switching over to my spring inventory, joke-wise,” says Andy Kindler. “This is the last week that I’m going to be doing my winter material. I do a lot of things-in-bloom jokes. I have an Orlando Bloom joke. ‘What's an Orlando Bloom? Is that some kind of a tree?’ And I have a lot of allergy material.”
Bamford started the year with the release of her second CD, How To Win, a second “Comedy Central Presents” special, launching a series on Superdeluxe.com and painting. “I’m currently taking classes and so far, I have completed the following pastels: “Small Plant,” “Can of Diet Coke” and “Package of Fig Newtons.” My work in progress is “Sea Cows (from picture in National Geographic).” They’re not for sale, but on display within a larger installation called, “The Bathroom of My One-Bedroom Apartment.’”
Kindler has been busy as a correspondent on Letterman, prepping for the release of his first DVD, and contemplating an animated children’s show. “It opens with me crawling around, going, ‘I’m hungry. Where’s mommy?’ She’s left for the day. ‘Oh, that’s nice. Good. Where’s dad?’ He also wasn’t interested. ‘Fine. I’ll have a latchkey situation going on.’ And then I turn on the TV and there’s an episode of Shorties Watchin’ Shorties because, really, can you do any animation after that?”
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