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Who wants to join Amy Sedaris’ coloring club?
Earlier this year, the 64-year-old comedian spoke on Late Night with Seth Meyers about her coloring club — of which friend Andy Cohen is a member, while John Mayer’s been a guest. According to Sedaris at the time, members must enjoy marijuana and it costs a fee to leave the club.
“It began because I was working on a movie and I got COVID and I never got COVID before,” she tells PEOPLE. “And my doctor was like, ‘You don’t really have to quarantine. It’s different now.’ But I decided I’m going to quarantine. I stayed home for five or six days, and I just started coloring, and I remember it really calmed me down.”
Once Sedaris recovered from the illness, she started inviting people to color with her. However, the club’s rules aren’t as strict as she previously claimed.
“You don’t have to be a pothead to be in it, but it’s just a good thing that’s calming,” she says. “I have a lot of books and a lot of paint pens and crayons and just random people. We just get together and chit-chat and color.”
Sedaris keeps a wide variety of coloring books to fit her friends’ interests. “Sometimes you want something detailed and sometimes you want a big apple when you just color in the apple or something big, and you just get lost in that,” she says. “I have a good gay one — filthy.”
The more scandalous coloring books can make for interesting moments for the club. “I love it when you’re talking to someone and they show me what they’re coloring. I’m like, ‘This whole time I was talking to you, you were coloring balls? Really?’” says Sedaris, who jokes Cohen, 57, is “almost done” with the gay coloring book. “That’s the best one.”
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One of her celebrity friends who hasn’t colored with the club? Sarah Jessica Parker. “It doesn’t mean she won’t, but she hasn’t been to one yet,” says Sedaris.
It’s unclear if the exit fee is what’s keeping the Sex and the City star away. “It would cost her a lot of money [to leave the club],” quips Sedaris.
This holiday season, the Strangers with Candy star is partnering with Amy’s Kitchen for the brand’s Night Off campaign, which offers free frozen Amy’s meals on Instacart through the end of 2025. “It’s a good thing to give people for Christmas,” she says. “Like, straight guys, or they can be gay guys too, but I’m just saying it’s a good thing to give somebody single to have in their freezer.”
