{"id":2257467,"date":"2026-01-30T04:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2257467"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:35:53","slug":"paralyzed-by-hope-the-maria-bamford-story-shares-the-tears-fears-insights-of-a-unique-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/paralyzed-by-hope-the-maria-bamford-story-shares-the-tears-fears-insights-of-a-unique-clown\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story\u2019 Shares the Tears, Fears, Insights of a Unique Clown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stand-up comedy is best live \u2014 and often lived. Judd Apatow<\/a> and comedy appreciator Neil Berkeley<\/a> know this. In their admiring, at times achingly funny documentary \u201cParalyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story<\/a>\u201d premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, the co-directors celebrate a comedian especially good at mining her life \u2014 including her struggles with mental health.<\/p>\n

The film builds the arc of Bamford\u2019s life and career by utilizing clips from decades of her stand-up. Augmenting that spine are family photos and home movies, copious insights and praise from fellow comedians, anchored with interviews \u2014 awkward and endearing \u2014 with the comic herself, as well as her parents and older sister, Sarah Bamford Seidelmann<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Duluth, she\u2019s the second daughter of a doctor and a formidable mother. Around the time Bamford was 8 years old, she began experiencing a form of Ocd that is marked by dark, intrusive thoughts that…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Stand-up comedy is best live \u2014 and often lived. Judd Apatow and comedy appreciator Neil Berkeley know this. In their admiring, at times achingly funny documentary \u201cParalyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story\u201d premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, the co-directors celebrate a comedian especially good at mining her life \u2014 including her struggles with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2257468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2257467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Paralyzed-by-Hope-The-Maria-Bamford-Story-Shares-the-Tears.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257469,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257467\/revisions\/2257469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2257468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}