Amy Sedaris

Twenty Second City Alumni You Should Know

source: Examiner.com

Stephen is also well-known as a writer and actor with Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello in both “Exit 57” and “Strangers with Candy.” Stephen is possibly the best known satirist of the right-wing and Republicans today. His (sometimes) scathingly ironic ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

Ringwald Theatre has its cake, and eats it too

source: Metromode Media

 MI the moniker is derived from an episode of the Amy Sedaris sitcom Strangers With Candy – knocks out shows four days a week, year-round, with a different program each month. Avant-garde shows, including the 2009 Wilde Award-nominated Love and Human ...

Published Thu, Jun 4

Stuart Davis wrestles with big spiritual questions in his comedy

source: 77 Square

 WI He calls Amy Sedaris' Comedy Central show “Strangers With Candy” a “huge influence,” due to her “fearless willingness to inhabit a character that's so unredeemed.” He often identifies with those characters, too — “that character always got it wrong and ...

Published Wed, Jun 3

THE FELLAS LIVE! With O'Hanlon, Moran & Tiernan Begins Limited US ...

source: Broadway World

 NY Los Angeles, Chicago) and Wigfield featuring Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, and Paul Dinello (Off-Broadway, National Tour); Write Aid benefiting the members of the Writers Guild of America, featuring Eddie Izzard, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, ...

Published Tue, May 26

Strangers with Candy

source: TheCelebrityCafe.com

 NY It seems like writers and actors Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert (yes, that Stephen Colbert) were trying to explore this question while creating Strangers with Candy. Just take the basic plot: 46-year-old Jerri decides to return to high ...

Published Sat, May 2

Amy Sedaris draws a crowd at Book Soup's booth

source: Los Angeles Times Blogs

 CA Amy Sedaris, the author of “I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence” and star of the movie “Strangers With Candy” was signing books for the independent LA bookstore. The store will feature 19 authors total today. They've been signing since 11 am ...

Published Sat, Apr 25

“An evening with David Sedaris” at Benaroya Hall

source: Examiner.com

As part of the hilarious Sedaris family, prolific comedy writer David Sedaris is coming to Seattle. If the name Sedaris sounds familiar, you may know his sister Amy Sedaris of cult-hit Strangers with Candy fame, which was broadcast on Comedy Central ...

Published Wed, Apr 22

David Sedaris engulfs the Fine Arts Center

source: The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

 MA Together with his sister Amy, Sedaris wrote several plays under the pseudonym, “The Talent Family.” Amy also starred in the Comedy Central original series, “Strangers with Candy,” which follows 46-year-old heroin addict Jerri Blank as she returns to ...

Published Thu, Apr 2