This Weekend: Maria Bamford At Helium Comedy Club + Win Tickets
August 11, 2010 — PDXPIPELINEWe have 2 pairs of tickets for Maria Bamford at Helium Friday night at 10:30. To Win: Comment on this post why you'd like to attend. Winner will be drawn Friday (August 13) at noon.
Reminder: We give out 100s of $$$ in free tickets every month to our Portland Facebook Group for many of the top events & venues in PDX. Join it if you like free stuff. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.
From our partners at Helium comedy Club
Comedian Maria Bamford will be performing on August 12th-14th at Helium Comedy Club located at SE 9th & Hawthorne. Show times are 8 and 10:30pm and tickets range from $15-$25.
Maria Bamford is a 37-year old comedian who stars in the new Fox series Sit Down, Shut Up. She earned “Best of the Web” from Salon.com and the Harvard Crimson for her web series The Maria Bamford Show. She was also named one of Variety's “Top Ten Comics to Watch” and was voted by Comedy Central viewers as one of their “Top Ten Favorite Comics."
Maria started her performing arts career in Duluth, Minnesota at the age of 11 where she starred in the Chester Park Elementary production of How the West Was REALLY Won! A short 24 years of self-discovery and secretarial work later and look at her now! Maria is the first female comic to have two half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials. She starred in the Comedy Central series The Comedians of Comedy and Netflix's Comedians of Comedy: The Movie. She has made multiple late-night appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn and Jimmy Kimmel Live, as well as not-so-late appearances on Premium Blend, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and The World Comedy Tour: Melbourne 2003.
Maria also performs comedic voiceovers for such cartoons as CatDog and PBS's Emmy-winning series Word Girl. She has guest starred on Oxygen's Hey Monie! and Cartoon Network's Home Movies. In Nickelodeon's animated feature Barnyard, she voiced “Mrs. Beady,” a role she later reprised in the TV spin-off series Back at the Barnyard.
Maria's writing has been featured in The Onion, The Melbourne Age and LA Weekly which you can read archived on her site, www.mariabamford.com. She is currently working on a book about depression and mental illness with funny experiences of her own and other comedians that will be published in 2009 by Quack! Media. Her new CD Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome, will be released by Comedy Central in the winter of 2008.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.heliumcomedy.com or by calling 888-64-FUNNY.
August 11, 2010 at 12:27
I would like to attend because Maria AND Helium are both awesome.
August 11, 2010 at 12:28
Maria is hilarious!! Helium Comedy Club is awesome! I’d love to go for the third weekend in a row!! :)
August 11, 2010 at 12:31
I’d love to check this place out! First weekend I have off in a lonnng while, Maria Bamford sounds like the perfect way to unwind. “Old Mcdonald had a pterodactyl. . “
August 11, 2010 at 12:35
I love Maria Bamford, and love seeing and supporting female comics!
August 11, 2010 at 13:36
To all people who enter. Yes, they do give tickets out. My friend won last week and let me tell you it was funny. I’m waiting for Doug Benson to show up there. To PDX, I’m not entering this contest. I feel it would be unfair to everyone if I entered, when my friend won last week and took me. Good luck to all.
August 11, 2010 at 14:26
BECAUSE I NEED TO GET OUT AND LAUGH !!! My friend from Nevada is coming and it would show her yet another reason she needs to move here.
August 11, 2010 at 14:56
This is my boyfriend’s birthday! He loves her! Oh to get us two tickets and make his day!
August 11, 2010 at 14:58
Maria is truly one of my very favorite comics! I’ve seen her do 15 minute sets a couple of times but have never seen a full headlining set.
She’s also inspired me to start singing my anxieties. Haha.(sounds weird but you’ll get it if you really love her).
Fingers crossed!
August 11, 2010 at 16:02
Here is a small list of reasons as to why I would love to win tickets to see Maria Bamford.
1. The boost of self-esteem that will occur when I enter the club and casually say “oh, I’m on the list” might be enough to get me through the rest of the weekend without sobbing uncontrollably.
2. I need to be around real people that aren’t my family members for a night. I’ve spent too much time visiting/working for the folks up in Washington lately. I’m forgetting how to be a Portlander.
3. Maria borrowed my car in 2007 and hasn’t returned it yet. (Don’t question it, just believe it.)
4. I’ve been ordered by my therapist to get out more and have a bit of a laugh once in a while. Wait…that may have been something I saw on a BBC program because I don’t have a therapist. Oh boy…
Basically, winning tickets to this show will solve everything. No pressure…
August 11, 2010 at 17:04
I would LOVE to see this comedian!! She’s hilarious!
August 11, 2010 at 17:06
It’s just brunch.
August 11, 2010 at 18:36
me! me! me! _been dyin to make it there and could really use a pick me up….trying not to be “so alcoholic”
helium train take me away!
August 11, 2010 at 18:46
Maria, since you won’t talk to me or let me see our baby then I’ll have to crash your show in Portland. I’ll most likely show up drunk and without pants or underwear so that I get all the laughs. You owe me alimony so fork it over. I’ll settle for a case of Jim Beam. Just show me our little signal during your show, you know, when you flash me, and then I’ll know your cool with that.
jerm
August 11, 2010 at 19:36
Oh my god I would love to go!! Pretty please let me win!! *bats eyelashes*
August 11, 2010 at 22:34
Maria Bamford is my ultimate metal cupcake.
August 12, 2010 at 02:02
Sounds like a great time! I would love to win tickets, I have been wanting to check out Helium for over a month now.
August 12, 2010 at 09:15
Maria is a cool person, hilarious, and very deserving of her success. I went to middle and high school with her (yes, really). My girlfriend hasn’t seen her yet, and it’d be great to see her again.
August 12, 2010 at 11:57
I would like to go because no one is a bigger Bamford fan than I (except maybe my boyfriend… and these tickets would be a surprise gift for him).
Maria and I have so much in common. My mother also thinks I look mentally ill when I don’t wear makeup. (Baby look pretty now mummy?) I also have two pugs who do nothing but snore and fart. And I’m also from a part of the country that means that when I get homesick, I put on my Zeppelin CD, plug in my curling iron and get “full-on” pretty. OK, I’m off to go sing my anxiety song now.
August 12, 2010 at 15:17
because she’s hilarious, and because it would be free! win-win!
August 12, 2010 at 15:45
Great site! I wish I knew about PDXPIPELINE earlier. Anyway- I would absolutely love to see Maria Bamford. She is hilarious!
Thanks for doing this!
Ryan
August 12, 2010 at 15:49
I would like to experience Maria’s amazing awkward set in person. I think she is hilarious!
August 12, 2010 at 15:49
Helium and Maria are awesome – I would love to take my boyfriend to this show :O) He finally has a Friday night off and we both love this comedian. Fingers crossed for Pdx Pipeline to help me make this happen!!
August 12, 2010 at 16:06
My girlfriend and I love Maria Bamford. We first saw her on Tim and Eric Awesome Show – she’s so good!
August 12, 2010 at 17:08
I would love to see an up and coming female comic at Helium. I’ve never been to Helium and would love to take my wife. It’s our anniversary today :) Thanks!
August 12, 2010 at 17:20
1) My girlfriend and her bff-friend nick-named themselves the Golden Hen and Donut after Bamford’s hypothetical children.
2) The last time I saw comedy was at Harvey’s–I deserve a break for being put through that.
August 12, 2010 at 17:20
I would love to go see Maria, she’s hilarious and I would love to check out Helium too!!
August 12, 2010 at 17:46
I’d kill for these tickets. Huge Maria Bramford fan (HUGE!) love the Comedians of Comedy folks…too broke when Patton Oswalt came to town, too broke for Brian Poeshn…still too broke but if I win tickets mama gets a much deserved night out (which has been rare due to babies, and well, being broke!) Make my night pipeline…hell, make my summer by delighting me with the hilarious weird amazing Maria :)
August 12, 2010 at 17:49
LOVE Maria Bamford! We want to go to this!
August 12, 2010 at 19:15
Nothing I love more than a good laugh! Crossing my fingers to win one at the Helium.
August 12, 2010 at 20:31
The Helium comedy club was great. Natasha Leggero and Ian Karmel were awesome and I would love to go back to Helium.
August 12, 2010 at 20:56
Please Please PLEASE pick me!!!!!!!! Maria Bamford is the funniest woman on earth!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
August 13, 2010 at 00:54
I love Maria Bamford. I saw her many years ago during the comedians of comedy tour. God, so creative a funny, it will be great to have a great comedian in Portland. Thank god for Helium.
August 13, 2010 at 01:27
Maria Bamford is a genius, and I don’t want to miss the opportunity to see her this weekend. I can’t sleep from the excitement!!!
August 13, 2010 at 10:27
I wanna see Maria so much! The Maria Bamford Show on the old Superdeluxe (not on youtube) is one of the best web series ever. She’s amazing! I have her albums!
August 13, 2010 at 11:15
If I get free tickets to this I can just tell it will turn my life around. It’ll be time to soar!
August 13, 2010 at 11:36
My friend and I live for stand-up comedy! As a humourous woman myself I’m always looking to support a fellow female with a good sense of humour! Maria is a Saint! I would love to be able to surprise my friend with a set of tickets!!
August 13, 2010 at 12:21
i just your FB page and i haven’t won any tickets yet. my friend and his girlfriend are in town and would like to go to the 10:30 show 2nite with my wife and i. i have our two tickets but they couldn’t afford theirs…..