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FISH OUT OF WATER At Home With Amy Sedaris debuts October 24 at 10:30 p.m. on TruTV.
Photograph by ROBERT TRACHTENBERG/ tru TV
AS A CHILD GROWING UP IN NORTH CAROLINA, Amy Sedaris was a fan of the ’70s show Hodgepodge Lodge, in which a female host explained nature to kids. “It was so boring, yet riveting,” she says. “I’d watch what she was doing with a cocoon or something, and I’d start to wonder, Who are these children? Why are they in this woman’s house?”