I love Amy. In the early 90s, my buddies and I would go down to Second City, either for the full show or the (free) improv set, and Amy Sedaris was a high point. Since we saw her in the same era as Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello, that's saying something. We all had searing crushes on her. #BeautifulGenius
The Sedaris siblings are goddam American treasures. They're also so different. David is dry and hilarious and Amy is wild and crazy, and together they're even better than the sum of their parts. I love everything about both of them.
I went to see David live once, such an incredible performance. Funny, truly professionally gifted storytellers who aren't quite stand-ups... it's a dying art
@montananerd8244 I always say that I would pay for a ticket to see David and Amy on a stage being served a surprise dinner. In other words, they don't know what's coming. Just Mic the 2 of them, and let us all join in the fun.
I'm in love with her dress! The gingham! The smocking! ❤❤❤ Amy is my dream BFF... I am even from the town where the inspiration for Jerri Blank spent her senior years...but no one remembers her sadly.
As a kid running as fast as we could in order to cover the greatest number of candygivers, we were told a house on our street was giving out popcorn balls. Screech stop! Well, the woman at the door waited until she had 10 or so kids on the hook, then ushered us into her living room where there were chairs set up in rows. When we were seated (oh boy! Popcorn balls!) she proceeded to preach a fire-and-brimstone sermon about Halloween being a night of the devil! We were too young to rudely walk out, but after we got our small, homemade treats, we warned every other kid we saw away from that cursed house! I'll soon be 70 and I remember that Halloween clearly. Woof!
Great story. Is any of it true? Let me quiz you. (This may not work.) What was the "odd" ingredient in popcorn balls that was never used in any other recipe? Hint: begins with an "s."
@@Jemy-e5r As true as I am humble. Aside from which, I've not made popcorn balls so I'm not privy to their manufacture, alas. "S" prompts me to guess Strychnine but I Suppose that's too dark and Self-limiting. Pray tell me Should you chooSe.
@sanseijedi OK, Sans, here goes: Never made them myself, but the grown-ups (with asbestos hands) used this dark syrup called sorghum and swore it was a step up from molasses. This concoction was too hot for small kiddie hands but had to be formed into balls immediately. I can still remember the stifling stench that burned our nostrils. Always hoped to hear from someone with better info/memory than I. Thanks for bringing this back. 🍿🏐
@@Jemy-e5r Hey, thanks! The folks I knew who were p-b makers used Karo corn syrup, not sorghum. Blame my growing up in a neighborhood on the west coast. I made cornbread with yellow, not white corn meal, too😬 I also seem to remember the too-hot-to-handle aspect, akin I believe to making salt water taffy. I don't expect the youngsters of today to understand any of that. Be well!
@@milede Steps for feeling self righteous on the internet: Accuse Amy Sedaris of being a chauvinist Step 2: desperately try to become a victim somehow and demand retribution against your perceived enemies.
Seth has gotten better and better as an interviewer over the years. He sits back and listens to them and I love it! He manages to make it look natural even though I know they still pre-interview.
When my friend needed her new cane cut down, I set out books for her to stand on, till we found the right height, then I cut the height of the books off the cane. It worked.
Comedians who aren’t afraid to be ugly in their character are the best. “Funny” women who always play pretty aren’t good enough to commit. Strangers With Candy and At Home are her best works. Reminds me of Tracey Ulman quality
I love halloween... especially now that I'm an adult and can choose how I go out. Growing up in Northern Canada as a kid means no matter how cool your Batman costume is, and no matter how tough you look in the mirror, you're gonna be showing up at the door looking like Batman stopped at the Winter Wear Sale at Sears before door knocking.
HA, there is a community here in San Jose where certain houses ask you to come in for pie!! by the 3rd house I was sick of pie and boring conversation, I needed to finish getting candy with the kids so I could get home for margaritas and black-out funtimes.
Dear Seth, my name is Shawn Holley from the band Mythological Horses. We would very much like to play on Late Night? I was wondering how much it pays and if possible could we get paid in pizza??? Pretty please? Cheap date, just saying
I absolutely love Amy Sedaris! She is so authentically funny and witty. Many comedic geniuses like Lucille Ball and others were funny as heck on script, but not all that funny on a talk show. Amy, though, is just as funny on Letterman or any other talk show as she was on Strangers with Candy. She is so underrated; many of my friends have never heard of her.
I have to agree that having a cane in your house is important. I bought my mom a metal one as a gag gift for her birthday one day, but a few years later, actually needed it when I broke one of my vertebrae. Guess the joke was one me. (side note: I'm fine now, healed up well after 5 months in a back brace)
I don't know what language TH-cam thinks you speak, it changed it to "Carina" instead of Carin... Lol if it's pronounced "carr-in" it doesn't count, names from the old country are always cool.
Mini Karens lmaaaaoooooooooo best way to describe that up and coming generation (swear its the effing cellphones and social media theyve grown up on glued to their faces... just my opinion tho 🤷♂️)
Most of it just the developmental stage. Just like teens are always teens, 5-7 yr old girls are always heartless social conformity managers lol. In reality, kids are black & white thinkers cuz that's how humans start, and girls are more verbal at that age. The boys are nicer but just because they aren't as fast with the words. Mostly age stuff is development, not generation, but when age discrimination got banned, HR said "say _____ gen" not "______ age group," and a juggernaut was unleashed lol. Kids are kids, pretty much the same thoughts in any era, what they say out loud to adults varies tho ...
What in the world is a mini-Karen. Guess I will have to listen to Amy Sedaris humor on this video to find out how some of the latest images are getting generic labelled by some men wiho are identifying with having any skin color these days.
What in the world is a mini-Karen. Guess I will have to listen to Amy Sedaris humor on this video to find out how some of the latest images are getting generic labelled by men wiho are identifying with having any skin color these days.
I like Amy, but this is awful. Those older ladies who took the time to make homemade treats for kids, and she throws them under the bus for a cheap laugh. When I was a kid there was an older woman on my street who invited us in for popcorn balls and caramel apples. Sure, we made fun of her at age 9, but in my 60s now, I realize what a treasure she was. C'mon Amy!
Amy is a gift to humanity
I love her type of humor, so chaotic. Casually dropping a lie about the husband you never had dying... genius
Yeah, I don’t think everyone caught that. I did. 😂
I've read most of her brothers books I've gotten to know her a little. David sedaris is hilarious!
Amy is a glorious human and the best kind of artistic crazy.
I adore her.
Amy in her witch persona loves to stir the pot (by her own admission) lol😅
strangers with candy
great show
she is so fun!
I love Amy. In the early 90s, my buddies and I would go down to Second City, either for the full show or the (free) improv set, and Amy Sedaris was a high point. Since we saw her in the same era as Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello, that's saying something. We all had searing crushes on her. #BeautifulGenius
Amy in the early 90s? My late-teen hormones wouldn't have been able to handle that
That woman just oozes charisma.
I agree that Amy's charisma is what makes her ageless.
If by charisma you mean just right amount of unhinged
Amy Seda-rizz
She’s a cow
The kids now say, she has Rizz
Princess Caroline 😊
The Sedaris siblings are goddam American treasures. They're also so different. David is dry and hilarious and Amy is wild and crazy, and together they're even better than the sum of their parts. I love everything about both of them.
"You're not a real witch! You're just someone acting like a witch!" - Her intonation is the same one I have heard from David thousands of times.
And the fact that Hugh gave her a cane!
Couldn't put it better. They are amazing.
This interview should have been longer. I would watch Amy (and David) for hours.
I went to see David live once, such an incredible performance. Funny, truly professionally gifted storytellers who aren't quite stand-ups... it's a dying art
@montananerd8244 I always say that I would pay for a ticket to see David and Amy on a stage being served a surprise dinner. In other words, they don't know what's coming. Just Mic the 2 of them, and let us all join in the fun.
They're so different but compliment each other so well. The best...
I was just about to write the exact same thing ❤
Give her the Mark Twain Prize, already!! A national treasure.
I love that the letterman tradition continues. She had nothing to promote but someone cancelled last minute and Amy got some shoe money out of it.
So technically, when people who don't know her go to trick or treat at her house, she IS the Stranger with Candy! 😂
Oh wow
If I could be friends with any famous person it would be Amy. She is so funny, stylish, and charming.
Ditto. She has an open invitation to be my best friend.
She is so spectacularly unhinged. I love her so much.
Amy is the best talk show guest of all time
I'm in love with her dress! The gingham! The smocking! ❤❤❤ Amy is my dream BFF... I am even from the town where the inspiration for Jerri Blank spent her senior years...but no one remembers her sadly.
Did I miss an explanation of the MGXMG initials?
I remember Strangers with Candy. Love that show!
I feel better about the world knowing Amy Sedaris hangs out with Justin Theroux.
As a kid running as fast as we could in order to cover the greatest number of candygivers, we were told a house on our street was giving out popcorn balls. Screech stop! Well, the woman at the door waited until she had 10 or so kids on the hook, then ushered us into her living room where there were chairs set up in rows. When we were seated (oh boy! Popcorn balls!) she proceeded to preach a fire-and-brimstone sermon about Halloween being a night of the devil! We were too young to rudely walk out, but after we got our small, homemade treats, we warned every other kid we saw away from that cursed house! I'll soon be 70 and I remember that Halloween clearly. Woof!
And I grew up in the 80s so it was all about CHECK FOR RAZORBLADES before you could eat any candy. Homemade treats were forever banished.
Great story. Is any of it true? Let me quiz you. (This may not work.) What was the "odd" ingredient in popcorn balls that was never used in any other recipe?
Hint: begins with an "s."
@@Jemy-e5r As true as I am humble. Aside from which, I've not made popcorn balls so I'm not privy to their manufacture, alas. "S" prompts me to guess Strychnine but I Suppose that's too dark and Self-limiting. Pray tell me Should you chooSe.
@sanseijedi OK, Sans, here goes: Never made them myself, but the grown-ups (with asbestos hands) used this dark syrup called sorghum and swore it was a step up from molasses. This concoction was too hot for small kiddie hands but had to be formed into balls immediately. I can still remember the stifling stench that burned our nostrils. Always hoped to hear from someone with better info/memory than I. Thanks for bringing this back. 🍿🏐
@@Jemy-e5r Hey, thanks! The folks I knew who were p-b makers used Karo corn syrup, not sorghum. Blame my growing up in a neighborhood on the west coast. I made cornbread with yellow, not white corn meal, too😬
I also seem to remember the too-hot-to-handle aspect, akin I believe to making salt water taffy. I don't expect the youngsters of today to understand any of that. Be well!
Wow❗️Amy is a fox, and just as witty as ever!
Hugh gifting Amy a cane is so delightfully unsurprising
Who's been on Team Amy since Exit 57???
With Colbert pre SWC!
1:30 You can watch *in real time* as Amy Sedaris figures out the “Karen Mill” is churning out insufferable monsters at an astonishing rate.
@@milede
Steps for feeling self righteous on the internet: Accuse Amy Sedaris of being a chauvinist
Step 2: desperately try to become a victim somehow and demand retribution against your perceived enemies.
@@miledeStep 3: YAAAAAAAAWN
GREAT witch cackle, Amy! Margaret Hamilton would be SO proud!
Seth has gotten better and better as an interviewer over the years. He sits back and listens to them and I love it! He manages to make it look natural even though I know they still pre-interview.
She’s hilarious
When my friend needed her new cane cut down, I set out books for her to stand on, till we found the right height, then I cut the height of the books off the cane. It worked.
Comedians who aren’t afraid to be ugly in their character are the best. “Funny” women who always play pretty aren’t good enough to commit. Strangers With Candy and At Home are her best works. Reminds me of Tracey Ulman quality
PRINCESS CAROLYN
So delightful! Cannot get enough of Amy!
If I had just 1% of that energy... I could finish this thought.
Love your comment. My mom used to say that about her grandkids 🤗
Seth needs a cane for his "back in my day" segments...
I love halloween... especially now that I'm an adult and can choose how I go out. Growing up in Northern Canada as a kid means no matter how cool your Batman costume is, and no matter how tough you look in the mirror, you're gonna be showing up at the door looking like Batman stopped at the Winter Wear Sale at Sears before door knocking.
Just realized she's Gayle from bob's burgers lmao
No that’s Megan Mullally who plays Gayle.
"PRINCESS CAROLYN I FOUND JOHN STAMOS"
you would not make a pie out of a yam (assuming you could even find one at a specialty food store). What she means is "sweet potato pie".
👍
just casually name dropping JUSTIN THEROUX COMES OVER TO PLAY 😮😂😂😂
Unimpeachably delightful as always, what a laugh riot she is
I want to be Amy Sedaris.
Best cackle ever!
Get her, Nancy Cartwright, & Amy Poehler to do a sitcom. Any subject.
Ms. Sedaris is just the best. Talk about a Little Miss Sunshine. So glad whenever I see her doing...anything. ❤☮🌎
I have missed Amy, such a fun guest!
Long live Jerri Blank!!
That witch laugh is starting to leak into her real laugh
That no one had ever married this sparkling gem is beyond me!!
She is a gem.
HA, there is a community here in San Jose where certain houses ask you to come in for pie!! by the 3rd house I was sick of pie and boring conversation, I needed to finish getting candy with the kids so I could get home for margaritas and black-out funtimes.
Priceless & so grateful for that
I love her.
She is pure absurdism personified, and it's a delight.
What’s with the MGXMGXMGX pattern, on her dress?!?
Would give most anything to spend an evening w the extended Sedaris family and friends.
She and David talk so much alike -- love them both!
She got some muscle since covid. Also miss her cooking show very much 😢
She always wears the funkiest clothes 😝
When is the last time a guy said to you “I like your shoes!”
🤍
We love your show seth meyers
Amy's books are a continuous source of outrageous pictures, jokes and.. some good recipes 😅
I love her clothes
I can see the origins of some of her characters on ‘At Home with Amy Sedaris” with that pumpkin pie story 😂
omg i loooooove amy sedaris. forever charming and lovely.
Dear Seth, my name is Shawn Holley from the band Mythological Horses. We would very much like to play on Late Night? I was wondering how much it pays and if possible could we get paid in pizza??? Pretty please? Cheap date, just saying
❤amy
Amy Sedaris could be Amy Poehler’s older sister! Those two need to work together ASAP!!
I absolutely love Amy Sedaris! She is so authentically funny and witty. Many comedic geniuses like Lucille Ball and others were funny as heck on script, but not all that funny on a talk show. Amy, though, is just as funny on Letterman or any other talk show as she was on Strangers with Candy. She is so underrated; many of my friends have never heard of her.
When is Holloween (or Haaw-low-ween)?
Is it in March or April or something?
I know that Halloween is in October.
A D O R E her.
I have to agree that having a cane in your house is important. I bought my mom a metal one as a gag gift for her birthday one day, but a few years later, actually needed it when I broke one of my vertebrae. Guess the joke was one me. (side note: I'm fine now, healed up well after 5 months in a back brace)
I freakin love Amy Sedaris.
I learned something today about customizing a cane. Never knew...
If Amy isn't on your show at least once a month, I'M going on strike!
So when she was young she was like the little girls she doesn't like today
Love love love Amy!
“ A yam pie” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well she seems downright delightful, haha.
She is fantastic!
And so much fun!
I love her so much!
I gotta practice my witch cackle
what was her bathroom drug?
AWWWW yes you always will need a cane and crutches.....
What's that supposed to mean?
"that's a great laugh"
The world doesn't her ❤
❤
30 years ago she was super funny, and was great in Strangers with Candy.
And 30 years later she's hilarious and brilliant and beautiful
@thenerktwins Awww, She was all those things 30 years ago too! You read too much into it. 🤣
@@philpalmer4877 oh glad to hear it. Hard to get full context sometimes
Carin😅
I don't know what language TH-cam thinks you speak, it changed it to "Carina" instead of Carin... Lol if it's pronounced "carr-in" it doesn't count, names from the old country are always cool.
Devil Doll ❤
Mini Karens lmaaaaoooooooooo best way to describe that up and coming generation (swear its the effing cellphones and social media theyve grown up on glued to their faces... just my opinion tho 🤷♂️)
Most of it just the developmental stage. Just like teens are always teens, 5-7 yr old girls are always heartless social conformity managers lol. In reality, kids are black & white thinkers cuz that's how humans start, and girls are more verbal at that age. The boys are nicer but just because they aren't as fast with the words. Mostly age stuff is development, not generation, but when age discrimination got banned, HR said "say _____ gen" not "______ age group," and a juggernaut was unleashed lol. Kids are kids, pretty much the same thoughts in any era, what they say out loud to adults varies tho ...
@@montananerd8244 lmao this is all very wrong and antiquated thinking
What in the world is a mini-Karen. Guess I will have to listen to Amy Sedaris humor on this video to find out how some of the latest images are getting generic labelled by some men wiho are identifying with having any skin color these days.
What in the world is a mini-Karen. Guess I will have to listen to Amy Sedaris humor on this video to find out how some of the latest images are getting generic labelled by men wiho are identifying with having any skin color these days.
I like Amy, but this is awful. Those older ladies who took the time to make homemade treats for kids, and she throws them under the bus for a cheap laugh. When I was a kid there was an older woman on my street who invited us in for popcorn balls and caramel apples. Sure, we made fun of her at age 9, but in my 60s now, I realize what a treasure she was. C'mon Amy!
She is the best talk show guest of anyone.
Love Amy’s Molly Goddard dress!!!