Could be we share the same North Carolina roots. Could be she's the sister of my favorite author, David Sedaris. Could be that she turns up in the oddest places (See "Sex in the City", "School of Rock", and "Strangers with Candy"). Most likely, though, it's her twisted and bawdy sense of humor that permeates not only her work, but her whole life. She LIVES weirdness.
She's an actress, best-selling author, stage and screen writer, and New York bon vivant who runs in an A-list crowd. But most of all, she's just plan nutty.
Exhibit A: (from her web site)
She really wanted some Vicodin one Christmas Eve. Upon walking out of her apartment on a search for it, she ran into a woman on crutches--who took her up to her apartment and gave her Vicodin. Amy calls it the "Miracle on Christopher Street."
She taught Martha Stewart how to make a grilled cheese sandwich in prison by using an iron... in 2001. She also gave Martha a squirrel-shaped wooden bong which she carved herself, and told her it was packed.
In Fall 2003, she started an amateur craft club called The Crafty Beavers. She's the club president and they meet on a weekly basis. Felt is their medium of choice, and it's largely an excuse to smoke pot.
When she was young, she had a club called the Funny Face Club (she was the only member), and she would go door-to-door after Halloween and offer to take away her neighbors' pumpkins for 25 cents. She'd take the quarter, then just go throw the pumpkins in the street.
And my favorite: she wants to make a sitcom out of 'Night Mother, where the daughter tries to kill herself a different way in every episode.
But if you really want to know who she is, you have to read her bizarre entertaining handbook, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. It's a must for unique Greek/Southern recipes, substance-induced entertaining tips, and just a mish mash of insight into the way Amy lives.
