![]() ![]() And I didn’t know that until I played opposite myself,” she says. “It kind of felt like I was the boring one. Playing against guest stars like Colbert or her Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt co-star Jane Krakowski, along with creating multiple new characters, helped Sedaris realize how to play herself onscreen. And he plays himself because the part we had written for him, somebody has to play himself,” she says. We can’t do the show without having Colbert on it. “Paul and I have known Stephen since 1985 in Strangers. 24 premiere. While Sedaris was a favorite of David Letterman, appearing on his couch 34 times over the years, she’ll be making her first trip back to the late-night institution with her friend as host. 23, as a guest on The Late Show ahead of her show’s Oct. She’ll also reunite with Colbert on Monday, Oct. In addition to playing multiple characters herself, Sedaris has enlisted guest stars ranging from Paul Giamatti to Peter Serafinowicz, and of course, longtime collaborator Stephen Colbert, with whom she and Dinello created Strangers With Candy. And then people can always pick up the books and see the real deal.” That’s why I thought, well, I got all my passion out in the books, and now I’m kind of just playing with the books a little bit and making it sillier. Whereas on this show, I barely teach you how to cook spanakopita because every time I try to make something I get derailed and it turns into something else. I really want to teach you how to make spanakopita. “I do embrace the things I’m passionate about,” she says. Ultimately, the show will be a mix of earnest advice from someone passionate about homemaking, and a whole new mix of characters from the woman behind Strangers With Candy‘s Jerri Blank. Are we really going to talk about tea biscuits for 45 minutes? Sometimes it’s a lot.” “I mean, you can only watch a homemaking show for so long. So I had to let go off some of the real stuff, which can get a little mundane and boring after a while,” she says. “The challenge for me was if something was going happen with comedy in it, then it’s got to be funny.
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