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Last Chance to Get Some: Strangers With Candy Haiku Contest
A few years back Comedy Central teamed Amy Sedaris with Stephen Colbert and created the totally hilarious and ridiculous spoof of after-school specials, "Strangers with Candy".
The tv series lasted three seasons, and all of the episodes (six dvds worth) are being released by Comedy Central to support the film "Strangers With Candy". LAist happens to have two sets of the DVD box set that we will give away to two lucky winners.
Here's all you have to do: email a haiku to thelaist @ gmail dot com
Haikus are addictive, so please, only submit a maximum of three, for your own safety.
all haikus become property of LAist and we reserve the right to repost them to show the world how badass you are
After the jump are some of the haikus we've received - posted at RANDOM. If you think you have something better, email us!
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We will stop reading haikus at dinnertime on July 2, and announce the winners at 9am on July 3.
amy sedaris
cupcakes and cheeseballs she bakes
amy sedaris
Mexican donkey.
Boy he knew how to wrassle.
Ramon. Good times, mmm!
Stew's beef stirs things up:
"Let him talk." "Him who?" "Him me!"
--Geoffrey intervenes.
Strangers with Candy
I want to win the box set
Why? 'Nona Ryder.
Amy make us laugh
Amy sometime make me cry
Hope film doesn't suck
a boozer and a
user I may be, dear -ist
but loser - hope not
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Sour Patch kids are good!
They're made of unknown jellies
and make children fat!
Amy Sedaris
Anorexic Winona?
Pssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh much too beautiful!
Amy Sedaris.
She touches my tented pants.
Not again auntie.
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