“I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.”

American actress, comedian, and writer

Amy Sedaris is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She is best known for playing Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central series Strangers with Candy, which ran from 1999 to 2000, and for writing the 2005 prequel film of the same name. Her work centers on character comedy, with Jerri Blank as her signature role. She is known for performance and writing that lean into awkwardness, oddball humor, and exaggerated social behavior.