Stew ( David Pasquesi): The Blank family's meat man.He plays quarterback for the Flatpoint Donkeys football team. Derrick Blank ( Larc Spies): Jerri's arrogant teenage half-brother.Sara Blank ( Deborah Rush): Jerri's hateful stepmother.Guy Blank ( Roberto Gari): Jerri's biological father, shown only in a motionless state during mid-action.Geraldine "Jerri" Antonia Blank ( Amy Sedaris): A 46-year-old ex-con, ex-junkie, ex-prostitute, and high-school freshman at Flatpoint High.Main article: Strangers with Candy characters The Blank family
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Colbert received a co-writing credit on the unaired pilot (and later, on the prequel movie), but he did not work as a writer on the series proper. Every script was written by Sedaris and Dinello as a team, very occasionally working with a collaborator such as Rouse or Thomas Lennon. They, along with Greg Hollimon and many other stars of the series, were also alumni of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe. Sedaris, Colbert, Dinello, and Rouse were cast members of the short-lived Comedy Central series Exit 57. Several lines of dialogue in the series were taken verbatim from Fisher's public-service film. Much of Jerri's past is taken from anecdotes in The Trip Back, some of which are also in Fisher's autobiography, The Lonely Trip Back.
Seeing that Fisher strongly resembled their friend Amy Sedaris, they showed her a copy of the tape and, suitably impressed with Sedaris's imitation of Fisher, began developing a series based around the idea of Fisher going back to high school herself. While she was putting together a pitch for her series, her friends Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert watched a bootleg copy of a Scared Straight!–type public-service film called The Trip Back, in which motivational speaker Florrie Fisher recalled her days as a New York prostitute to a group of high-school students. The series was first envisioned by Amy Sedaris as a parody of after school specials.
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The last episode features Flatpoint being turned into a strip mall because the show was cancelled to make room for a TV show called Strip Mall. She has been to prison several times, the last time because she "stole the TV."Įvery episode features a warped theme or moral lesson and ends with the cast and other featured actors from the episode dancing. Jerri ran away from home and became "a boozer, a user, and a loser" after dropping out of high school as a teenager, supporting her drug habits through prostitution, stripping, and larceny. The series' main character, Geraldine Antonia "Jerri" Blank (played by Amy Sedaris), was a "junkie whore"/runaway returning to high school as a freshman at age 46 at the fictional Flatpoint High School (home of the Concrete Donkeys) in the town of Flatpoint. As of 2021, it is available to watch on Paramount+. A prequel film of the same name was released in 2005. It first aired on April 7, 1999, and concluded its third and final season on October 2, 2000. Strangers with Candy is an American comedy television series produced by Comedy Central. ( June 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. This article possibly contains original research.
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