COMEDY CENTRAL HAS A SWEET TOOTH FOR
THE NETWORK TELEVISION PREMIERE OF "STRANGERS WITH CANDY"
SATURDAY, JUNE 13 AT 11:00 P.M.
NEW YORK, May 26, 2009 -- COMEDY CENTRAL brings viewers the Network Television Premiere of the hit film based on COMEDY CENTRAL’s cult classic series, "Strangers with Candy,” starring Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Matthew Broderick and Paul Dinello, Saturday, June 13 at 11:00 p.m.
In this prequel to the COMEDY CENTRAL television series, Jerri Blank (Sedaris) returns home after 32 years of drugs, prostitution and prison. It’s up to Blank to pull her father out of his stress-induced coma by going back to high school and winning the science fair – but even though it’s her second time around, life as a teenager hasn’t gotten any easier. Get ready for a quirky and twisted comedy like no other!
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