Geek Girl Of The Week: Amy Sedaris
Who: Amy Sedaris
Type of Geek: Don’t Know Whether To Laugh Or Vomit Funny-Girl Geek
Much like Vegemite and Josh Groban, Amy Sedaris is an acquired taste. It’s not because she’s unfunny—it’s almost that she’s too funny. Her comedy knows no limits or boundaries, which can at times annoy people to no end or make them violently uncomfortable and even ill. Whether she’s playing yellow-toothed former junkie and teenage runaway Jerri Blank on Strangers With Candy, or she’s ill-advising nesting fools on how to remove urine stains from the sheets in her book I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influence, Sedaris refuses to break character. Ever.
Sometimes I wonder if her entire life is one big joke between her and her rabbit Dusty. Let’s just say nothing Amy does would surprise me—and that’s why she’s such a funny-girl geek goddess. Well, that and her mind-blowing relationship with Glen Fandango, her imaginary husband.
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