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Strangers with Candy: Created by Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Mitch Rouse, Amy Sedaris. With Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert, Greg Hollimon, Amy Sedaris. A 46-year-old ex-drug addict returns to high school as a freshman.
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- 1999-04-07
- Comedy
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- Plot
- Development
- Cast and Characters
- Cancellation
- Reception
- Film Adaptation and Future
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Set in the fictional city of Flatpoint, Strangers with Candy follows Geraldine Antonia "Jerri" Blank, a former prostitute and drug addict –referred to in the show as a "junkie whore"– who returns to high school as a 46-year-old freshman at Flatpoint High. Jerri ran away from home and became "a boozer, a user, and a loser" after dropping out of high...
Conception
Sedaris, Dinello, Colbert and Rouse first created the sketch comedy show Exit 57, which debuted on Comedy Central in 1995 and aired through 1996. Although it lasted only 12 episodes, the show received favorable reviews and was nominated for five CableACE Awards in 1995, in categories including best writing, performance, and comedy series. After the show was cancelled, Colbert and Dinello were preparing a pitch for a show known as "Mysteries of the Insane Unknown.” Simultaneously, Rouse and Se...
Writing and production
Colbert, Dinello and Sedaris wrote most of the episodes. The process started with an "overlying outline": knowing the start and the end of the episode, they would build the scenes in between and later would improvise together in a room. Whatever they laughed at went in the script. Colbert later said of this method: "Our rule was, if it makes us laugh, we put it in the script. There was not a single thing said by a character in that show that was right. Every choice was the wrong moral choice....
Casting
When writing the pilot, the writers would perform the characters, and realized that they were imitating Greg Hollimon when they read Principal Blackman's lines. Colbert called Hollimon to play the part, but his mother, who had dementia, forgot to pass him the message. A few weeks later Rose Abdoo was able to contact him, and he flew to New York to film. The creators, Hollimon, and many other stars of the series, were also alumni of Chicago's Second City. Roberto Gariwas chosen for the role of...
The Blank family
1. Geraldine "Jerri" Antonia Blank (Amy Sedaris): A 46-year-old ex-con, ex-junkie, ex-prostitute, and high-school freshman at Flatpoint High. 2. Guy Blank (Roberto Gari): Jerri's biological father, shown only in a motionless state during mid-action. 3. Sara Blank (Deborah Rush): Jerri's hateful stepmother. 4. Derrick Blank (Larc Spies): Jerri's arrogant teenage half-brother. He plays quarterback for the Flatpoint Donkeys football team. 5. Stew (David Pasquesi): The Blank family's meat man. He...
Flatpoint High faculty and staff
1. Principal Onyx Blackman (Greg Hollimon): Principal of Flatpoint High School. His image is prominently displayed around the school, in classrooms, lockers, and even paper towels. 2. Charles "Chuck" Noblet (Stephen Colbert): Chuck is the school's history teacher and sponsor of the school newspaper, The Donkey Trouser. He and his wife Claire have a son, Seamus. He is in a secret sexual relationship with Geoffrey Jellineck. 3. Geoffrey Jellineck (Paul Dinello): Geoffrey (pronounced JOFF-ree as...
Flatpoint High students
1. Tammi Littlenut (Maria Thayer): Jerri's red-headed friend, who is often referred to as "Coppertop". 2. Orlando Pinatubo (Orlando Pabotoy): Jerri's Filipino sidekick, about whose heritage she makes many racist remarks. It is insinuated in both the series and film that he is in love with Jerri. 3. Jimmy Tickles (Jack Ferver): Jerri's sexually diminutive date in The Virgin Jerri; later a recurring character. 4. Paul Cotton (Jared Ryan): Jerri's love interest who gets to see her "Liberty Bell"...
The show was cancelled to give space for a new show called Strip Mall.In 2016, Sedaris said, "We never knew we had an audience. We never knew what the ratings were—we still haven’t been told we were canceled! But we were fine doing more or not doing more, either way."
Critical response
In an early review, Joyce Millman of Salon, said: "Strangers With Candy" is one of the most inventively bizarre shows in a long time –right up there with HBO's recent trial run of the mock-rock duo sitcom "Tenacious D"–. It manages to sustain the "Afterschool Special" joke with its smudged, '70s neo-realistic look, generic pseudo-pop background music and Jerri's throwback wardrobe." Rolling Stone was also complimentary of the show, "Strangers With Candy is gleefully absurdist stuff that is cl...
Legacy and influence
Although the series had low ratings during its emission, it became a cult classic, and served as inspiration for other comedians and screenwriters. When talking about Would It Kill You to Laugh? John Early and Kate Berlant cited the show as an influence, with Early saying: "It pushes back against schmaltziness in general, I feel a real kinship with that. It’s irreverent and it’s handled so well that it feels very personal." Lena Dunham also talked about it as an inspiration for Girls and cite...
On February 7, 2006, film company ThinkFilm announced that it had acquired the distribution rights to a feature film based on the series. The film, a prequel to the television show, was completed in 2004 and acquired by Warner Independent at Sundance in 2005, but release of the film was delayed due to legal clearance issues. Amy Sedaris, Stephen Co...
2 de out. de 2000 · Strangers with Candy - TV Series | Comedy Central US. Jerri Blank describes herself as a "boozer, user and a loser," and when she gets to redo her high school years and turn her life around, her comically bad judgment sticks. Watch Episodes. Episodes & Videos. About. Season 3. Full Episodes. All Videos. 22:22. Sign In to Watch. S3 • E10.
8 de abr. de 2021 · Strangers with Candy é uma série de TV de Stephen Colbert e Mitch Rouse com Amy Sedaris (Jerri Blank), Paul Dinello (Geoffrey Jellineck). Jerri Blank (Amy...
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Strangers with Candy is a 2005 American comedy film directed by Paul Dinello, written by Dinello, Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, and Mitch Rouse, and serves as a prequel to their 1999–2000 Comedy Central television series of the same name.
Strangers with Candy. 636 subscribers • 30 videos. Drop in on everyone’s favorite drop out! The brilliantly eccentric Amy Sedaris stars as Jerri Blank, a 46 year-old “boozer, user, and loser” who...
8 de abr. de 2024 · Sinopse. Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) é uma ex-estudante, tem 46 anos e se auto-descreve como uma "prostituta viciada". Liberada da prisão, ela volta para sua antiga...
