Growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina, Amy Sedaris watched a lot of television. She counts Alvin and the Chipmunks and Second City Television as major influences on her desire to perform, whether that meant pranking family members or acting in the plays written by her older brother, the humorist David Sedaris. Siblings aside, she was also surrounded by several other notable comedians, including Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello, whom she met in her 20s at Chicago’s Second City comedy troupe. That trio would go on to create Strangers with Candy in 1999, a sitcom underpinned by the same surreal yet comic tone that would come to define Sedaris’s later roles on shows such as BoJack Horseman, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and her own series, At Home with Amy Sedaris. On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the actress and writer joins host Bruce Bozzi to discuss her years working as a waitress, why she prefers guest-starring over leading roles, and her recent addiction to BonBon candy. Hear a preview of the episode below, and listen and subscribe on the iHeart app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Episode 45: Amy Sedaris
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