GYM TEACHER: the saddest STRANGERS WITH CANDY reunion possible?

Fans of the late and much lamented Comedy Central series Strangers with Candy were elated a few years back, when the team behind the show (Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert) reunited for a film version. But since then we've waited in vain for the trio to bring us new, scuzzy adventures for Jerri Blank, America's favorite 40-something high school kid.

With Colbert having become pretty busy with his new gig at The Colbert Report, the odds are probably against a new Strangers project anytime soon. But Sedaris and Dinello are still looking for work, and in 2008 they reunited for Gym Teacher: The Movie, another comedy set in high school, with both of them acting and Dinello directing.

I know that my fellow Strangers nuts are probably in a tizzy right now, wondering why they never heard of this movie. Well, don't get too excited, folks. Gym Teacher is actually a Nickelodeon TV movie for kids, with Sedaris as a wacky school principal and Dinello showing up in an eyepatch for a cameo. It frankly seems like the sort of thing Sedaris and Dinello did because they needed jobs, and it's definitely not one for the Netflix queue. But if you're curious, here's a sample scene with Sedaris in action.



Heavy sigh indeed. I sure miss Principal Onyx Blackman.


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