Is This an Advertisement or a Threat?
If comedian AMY SEDARIS' real face is difficult to recall, it's probably because she doesn't wear it much on TV. Instead, the pixieish actress, right, often looks like this: her character Jerri Blank from the cable cult hit, and now feature film, Strangers with Candy. "She's so nasty!" says Sedaris, who wiggles into a fat suit to play the ex-hooker, ex-junkie and all-around loser. Now Jerri has become the face of the new antifur campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). "Previous ads addressed the animal cruelty behind fur, but people who still wear fur don't seem to care about animals," says PETA's Dan Mathews. "So we're playing to the insecurity of fashionistas. Thus the tag line, 'When you wear fur, people laugh at you, not with you.'" Of course, with Jerri, they kind of do both.
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