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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.
Father (Alan Tudyk, "Blank Stare") is the leader of the cult that Jerri joined out of loneliness and depression in "Blank Stare" parts 1 and 2. By the end of "Blank Stare - Part 2", he is so sick of Jerri, he arranges to have her taken back by Blackman, Noblet, Jellineck, and the Flatpoint High staff.
Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello discuss the origins of their filthy, irreverent cult comedy 'Strangers With Candy,' which premiered in 1999.
The following is a list of episodes for the Comedy Central original series Strangers with Candy. The series started on April 7, 1999, and concluded its third and final season on October 2, 2000. A prequel film of the same name was released in 2005.
Since debuting Jerri Blank in 'Strangers with Candy' 25 years ago, the actor and comedian still hasn't slowed her one-woman cavalcade of scene-stealing misfits.
46-year-old former high school dropout and self-described "junkie whore" Jerri Blank is released from prison and returns to her childhood home. She discovers her mother has died, her father, Guy, has remarried to the hateful Sara Blank, and she has an arrogant half-brother Derrick. To make matters worse, her father is in a "stress-induced coma".
The Goodbye Guy (Strangers with Candy) The Last Temptation of Blank; The Last Temptation of Blank (Strangers with Candy) The Trip Back (Strangers with Candy) The Virgin Jerri; The Virgin Jerri (Strangers with Candy) To Love, Honor, and Pretend; To Love, Honor, and Pretend (Strangers with Candy) Trail of Tears (Strangers with Candy)
Beginning in 1999 Sedaris played Jerri Blank, a middle-aged woman who goes back to high school in the Comedy Central comedy series Strangers with Candy. The series, which she co-wrote with Dinello and Colbert was based on Sedaris's impression of 1970s-era motivational speaker Florrie Fisher. The show ran for three seasons.