earlier this week i went to the best buy in chelsea and bought the newly released strangers with candy season 1 dvd. a few of the stars of the show were there. so i got my copy signed by amy sedaris, stephen colbert, paul dinello, and roberto gari.
"When we toured I got to meet a lot of those people, and they're all misfits," says Sedaris, seen of late in fleeting glimpses in such films as Maid in Manhattan and School of Rock. "As my brother says, 'Amy, your fans are ugly,' and I'm like, 'I know.' Jerri Blank's fans are unattractive because she just attracts misfits, so I'm like, great. They can be pretty freaky, but I just love how obsessed they are, in a way, but I'm totally nothing like her. I mean, I've had people come over to interview me, and they're so disappointed in me because I'm nothing like her."
"They're very nice people," Colbert adds. "But I have to say, sometimes when we were on the road with Wigfield [a book the main actors co-wrote], we'd be kind of scared by our fans. The freaky fans. Let me put it this way: I could tell by looking out at the line at the book signings who was a Strangers fan. For me, I could go, 'Strangers, Daily Show, Strangers, Daily Show.' Or, 'Strangers, Daily Show, anything else Amy has done.' They tend to be the ones with the shaved eyebrows.
The article also mentions the most prominent Strangers fansite, www.jerriblank.com, as well as talk about a Strangers movie script the three main actors are writing! The interviewer himself wouldn't be a bad co-author with this brilliant gem:
Jerri Blank creeped out a small, manically devoted segment of a nation that found this woman with a grotesque overbite and shellacked hairdo and fanny-pack thighs simultaneously delightful, hysterical and altogether nauseating--very much like the high school experience itself, at least among those who did not experience the joys of thinly veiled homosexuality called, in some parts, "playing varsity football."
Randy [ url ] said at 9:22 AM 11-21-2003: Wow, a Strangers With Candy movie? Awesome.
And not ALL of the show's fans are weird. I was a fan. Oh, wait...
Baby Duck said at 11:02 AM 11-22-2003: With a very low response tally? BTW, I put "Milk via Todd" instead of "Todd via Milk", but it's like I'm channeling the Milky Milkerton collective, so it still kinda works =P
AnotherGeoff said at 4:31 PM 11-25-2003: I think you have a lot to say but you just don't want to say anything that will set people off. Start the conversation!
myriam said at 11:07 PM 11-25-2003: Wow, this whole thread took me forever to understand until I finally figured out that Baby Duck is Todd and was entering a post under Milky's name. Sheesh.
...something about the sun causing brain decay in californians...
Baby Duck said at 11:23 PM 11-25-2003: In retaliation for all the people responding under different names, the Milky Milkerton collective is several people responding under the same name!
AnotherGeoff said at 10:43 PM 11-25-2003: Hrm, I was thinking that maybe you could take pictures of El Alligator. I want to see this process you talked about.
