Secrets about Stephen

I went to see Amy Sedaris on her book tour in Raleigh, NC and during the Q&A session several things were asked about Stephen Colbert.

A fun question was when someone asked if Amy could tell an embarrassing secret about Stephen Colbert. She said that "He thinks he's a really good cook. and he isn't, he's a horrible horrible cook. Finally Paul Dinello and I after twelve years finally sat him down and told him and he was devastated. I have one of his recipes in the book, his nasty shrimp paste recipe. A new and improved one. So that really broke his heart."


She then told another secret about him: "We were touring with Second City and I was back stage and I picked up a black book that said "diary" and it said 'last night I dreamt I was a dragonfly'. I was like 'oh my god' and I went on stage and I used that. And again he was devastated."

And then I asked about how tumbling came to be:

"When I was in Chicago I lived over a deaf girl and we were best friends. I was thirty and she was five. She just saw Cirque Du Soleil and she was performing it for me. And I thought 'that's it!" for the rest of my life whenever I do a show I have to put something in it for deaf people to enjoy so It's really visual and they can follow it. I went out and bought tumbling books. I marched into Second City the next day with pantsuits, lady pant suits, and gave them to Paul and Stephen to wear. We just started tumbling. We did it every single night. When I was doing Colbert's show he said 'let's do tumbling and put it to rest.' We hadn't done it in ten years. They were really sore, two days, afterwards."

I thought you guys might like to read those :)If you're interested in my whole write up, you can go to http://pauldinello.net/amysedaris.html to read it.