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Strangers With Candy. For real.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

true dat.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i hear the movie's not so great but fingers crossed

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

GREAT talk show guest

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

kind of a lost art, that.

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

seriously if you were to try to make a new match game, put her in brett somers seat and scott thompson in charles nelson reilly's and you might stand a chance.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

god, she was on conan this one time and started taping up her face... i started hyperventilating, it was so fucking funny,

― dave k, Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.bust.com/images/bustline/32/cover32.gif

This cover has been haunting my bathroom for weeks now. In all the shots in the magazine, she's wearing the ends of lemons on her nipples. Even if you know that, it's freakin' HYPNOTIZING.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

i hear her cupcakes are good.

― jody the country girl doll (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link

apparently, sarah jessica parker and matthew broderick make cameos in the film.

this does not bode well.

― sugarpants: bea arthur's secret lover (sugarpants), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

http://imdb.com/title/tt0374284/

She provides the voice of PAULIE THE PENIS in whatever the hell THIS movie is. I LOVE her...and now need to find a copy of that magazine hubba hubba.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

she's good friends with sj parker & hubbie matt.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I think they and Letterman are basically responsible for the movie getting made. So I give them some cred.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i bet her neck and face are prematurely and permanently wrinkled from doing the jerri blank face. that's dedication.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Squirrel!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

does strangers with candy get better the more you watch? i saw the debut episode & thought i remembered it being funnier than that.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

the debut isn't the best episode, it gets better as you get further into season 1. the violin-playing episode is great.

i rented the strangers with candy dvd and there is an extras disc with a group interview of the whole cast that had me crushing on her, she's all nervous and giggly.

― Amon (eman), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link

someone once posted on here that she is really mean

― charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I forget where I read the article that big-upped Sedaris and Amy Poehler for being attractive women who are willing to make themselves ugly for the sake of comedy, but it's true.

I think my fave SWC episode is the one where her (already dead) dad dies.

Also: "Quandary..."

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently she is for the most part creeped out by her fans, but I love her anyway.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

someone once posted on here that she is really mean

it was speculated on this thread... Strangers With Candy (the TV show)
...but that bananas anecdote hardly classifies as anything approaching meanness.

― Amon (eman), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha ha I started that thread too oh no.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

i heard the movie was not so great, but i will see it anyway. i think it is mostly a rehashing of the first episode with lots of celebrities and an extended plot line.

have you read wigfield? amy, steven colbert, and paul dinello wrote it and it is hilarious!

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link

David Sedaris is fucking cool too, I wanna be in that family.

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link

i love that i used to read david sedaris, and he was always talking about his crazy sister and i would think about how funny that family was. then i looked into amy sedaris more and realized she was his sister and then his stories were even funnier!

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link

you can't kill the rooster - http://www.sedarishardwoodfloors.com/

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"A DIVISION OF SILLY P FLOORWORKS"

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link

"I'm gonna sit at the welcome taaaaaayble, sing about it..."

I watch season 2 disc 2 just about every night before bed for the hilarious cult episode. Most people I know don't get the show's humor but no other show has ever made me laugh so loud as Strangers With Candy.

― modernaire, I wanna be, Friday, 15 April 2005 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

GREAT talk show guest

No shit! I just saw her on Letterman and she was fucking adorable.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Thursday, 22 June 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

seven months pass...

Who's purchased "I Like You : hospitality under the influence"? I adore it. I made "Chicken of the Tavern" last night for dinner. It was delicious, which may be because I used an entire stick of butter, as per the recipe.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I was thinking about it just because its amy but im not very hospitable by nature. does she show how to knit rabbits or anything like that?

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I think my fave SWC episode is the one where her (already dead) dad dies

already dead?

No shit! I just saw her on Letterman and she was fucking adorable.

-- Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolo...) (webmail), June 22nd, 2006 1:25 AM. (marmotwolof)

the last 4 times ive seen letterman shes been on.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

movie was not that great but it had laffs. colbert is great. jerri's prison-lust after the scrubbed redhead girl was totally nauseating and hilarious.

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Who's purchased "I Like You : hospitality under the influence"?

Hilarious.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the fact that it's a totally legit cookbook, who makes no bones about "health" (i.e. lots of butter). Completely delicious. Also, her hospitality tips are really useful and hilarious (marbles in the medicine cabinet to point out nosy guests).

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

She is a god to me, basically.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

She's the best.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone made anything else out of the cookbook? Is the Spanakopita recipe up to snuff? The Chicken of the Taverns is giving me a serious food coma.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i love this book, i look at it everytime i go to the bookstore. it's on hold at the library for me. i'm like...fifth out. byoo.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a picture of a cake (the ghost cake with flaming eyes) that's from a Betty Crocker children's cookbook that I've had for 20+ years. When AS was at Fred Flare last month peddling her wares, I was going to confront her about that, but the room she was in was sooooo crowded.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.amysedarisrocks.com/aboutamy.htm

She really wanted some Vicodin one Christmas Eve. Upon walking out of her apartment on a search for it, she ran into a woman on crutches--who took her up to her apartment and gave her Vicodin. Amy calls it the "Miracle on Christopher Street."

She taught Martha Stewart how to make a grilled cheese sandwich in prison by using an iron... in 2001. She also gave Martha a squirrel-shaped wooden bong which she carved herself, and told her it was packed.

She had a long-time imaginary boyfriend named Ricky... Who worked as a grip in Argentina, brought her back saffron, lost all of his tools in a camper fire and suffered a stroke. She and Ricky had a baby, Hercules, the around same time that David Letterman's son was born. Amy said they had been "trying for hours."

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

my dad gave me the cd version of i like you for christmas and i was thinking of returning it for the book and then jon gave me the book (thanks!). i think i will still return the cd though cause i have a few of the mp3s and while it's great that it's amy reading, i don't know how much i'd actually listen to it.

haven't had a chance to do any recipes yet but now that i'm reminded of it, maybe i will soon!

― more grease in the pianissimo. (tehresa), Thursday, 25 January 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

the last 4 times ive seen letterman shes been on.

Yeah, I think I've caught her at least twice since my June post. That last one she said something about how some of the recipes in her book are screwed up because she didn't double check them! Oh well. Still impossibly cute.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 25 January 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

she is on tv right now (east coast) guesting on Earl.

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Friday, 26 January 2007 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link

just turned tv on to this excellent surprise!

― more grease in the pianissimo. (tehresa), Friday, 26 January 2007 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

jerri blank, irl!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbG_7Mx0cuo

― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 18 November 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link

weird I was just thinking to myself this morning that I should look this up

― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 November 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link

five years pass...

This looks like it could be good - starts tonight!

https://www.eater.com/2017/10/24/16523956/at-home-with-amy-sedaris-show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB30sgnUcSQ

― DJI, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

She's killing it on this show, I haven't laughed so much in eons. Funnier than Curb Your Enthusiasm or The Crown.

― Josefa, Friday, 8 December 2017 06:03 (six years ago) link

love the show

― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 8 December 2017 06:15 (six years ago) link

holiday special was pure joy

― In a slipshod style (Ross), Monday, 18 December 2017 05:44 (six years ago) link

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