I usually don’t write about Hollywood rumors for the reasons that it encourages Fan addiction and so banally common as to undercut the unique viewpoint that the web log is supposed to showcase.

If I write on the same story as one hundred and fifty thousand other bloggas (a term of endearment amongst us that you mere readers should not use) I’m basically like a sheep in the flock – one that hides his glasses, role-playing enjoyment and disparate dilettante knowledge in the naps of his wooly coat, therefore not representing his True friends off searching for reviews of House of the Blooded http://www.housesoftheblooded.com/ and other new fringe games the main flock considers laaaaaaaame.

I’m motivated by a cult interest here though. Ask any drone of the best comedic actors of these times and you’ll get responses of Steve Carell, Tina Fey, “that guy from Saturday night Live” and maybe even America Ferrera – who is a talented bit of latina guapa but I wouldn’t call her funny. No one would mention Amy Sedaris.

“Who’s she?” they’d ask – blinking frantically from guzzling their caffeine and sugar fatachino “coffee” vibrating in their manicured grasp and anticipation of a new celebrity for them to stalk and deify. She was the comedic lead in the much loved Strangers with Candy series that aired on Comedy Central for a mere three seasons while most were first getting into South Park, punctuating little not so inside jokes with “They killed Kenny”. You bastards are such slaves to trends.

This story about forty something drug addict prostitute returning home to finish high school was genius and the stylistic predecessor of TV greats Arrested Development and The Office. An after school special on crack, Steven Colbert co-wrote the show; he was on the Daily Show with Steve Carell, who is star of The Office – Strangers with Candy to The Office in only two Kevin Bacon degrees.

I only bring this up because there’s report that Sedaris is going to be starting a new show on Fox. I’d be excited if three seasons on Comedy Central didn’t translate to three shows before they cancel you. Then again this may give her license to go full bore nuts, which would make the show a hit.

It’s a matter of updating the humor to keep pace with sitcom powerhouses as ‘Till Death and American Dad … pretty easy actually.

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