9 Outstanding Female Comedians Funnier Than Amy Schumer

9. Maria Bamford

Maria has been in the comedy game for a long time, yet is only now receiving the attention she deserves. For years she’s utilized a slew of quirky voices and off-kilter, sometimes even dark and demented characters to entertain audiences the only way she knows how. Comedy equals pain, and pain equals comedy is something that Maria instinctively knows. And if you’ve seen her act, you’ll know that is quite true.

Over the years she’s used her vocal instrument to become a tiny giant in the voice over business and has appeared in over a dozen live-action films showing off various sides of herself, all toeing the line of discomfort. However, it wasn’t until her show Lady Dynamite premiered on Netflix in 2016, that audiences truly witnessed the extent of her talents.

Part autobiographical and part absurdist sketch comedy, Lady Dynamite is a brutally honest, yet hysterical look into her personal struggles with bipolar disorder and all the other struggles of everyday life.