Sarah Thyre
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Sarah Thyre is an actress and writer. She is best known for her role as Coach Cherri Wolf on the television show Strangers with Candy
, with Amy Sedaris
, Stephen Colbert
, and Paul Dinello
.
Sarah is the second of five children to be born into a southern family of Roman Catholics. Growing up, she lived in Kansas City and Louisiana. After her parents' divorce, she and her four siblings lived with their mother and struggled with poverty.
In 1994, Sarah married Andy Richter
. They met in 1991 in Los Angeles
during the production of The Real Live Brady Bunch. Richter played Mike Brady and Sarah at one time or another performed all the female roles, except for Marcia Brady. Together, they have appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
, and Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade
. Andy and Sarah live in Los Angeles
and have two children, William and Mercy.
Sarah has written a memoir about her childhood entitled Dark at the Roots published by Counterpoint Press, which is being developed for television.
Strangers with Candy
Strangers with Candy is a television series produced by Comedy Central. It first aired on April 7, 1999, and concluded its third and final season on October 2, 2000. Its timeslot was Sundays at 10 p.m....
, with Amy Sedaris
Amy Sedaris
Amy Louise Sedaris is an American actress, author, and comedian. She is known for playing the character Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central television series Strangers with Candy. Sedaris regularly collaborates with her older brother, humorist and author David Sedaris...
, Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.Colbert originally studied to be an...
, and Paul Dinello
Paul Dinello
Paul Dinello is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and an alumnus of Chicago-based The Second City, Improv Institute, and Annoyance Theatre...
.
Sarah is the second of five children to be born into a southern family of Roman Catholics. Growing up, she lived in Kansas City and Louisiana. After her parents' divorce, she and her four siblings lived with their mother and struggled with poverty.
In 1994, Sarah married Andy Richter
Andy Richter
Paul Andrew "Andy" Richter is an American actor, writer, comedian, and late night talk show announcer. He is best known for his role as the sidekick of Conan O'Brien on each of the host's programs: Late Night and The Tonight Show on NBC, and Conan on TBS...
. They met in 1991 in Los Angeles
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during the production of The Real Live Brady Bunch. Richter played Mike Brady and Sarah at one time or another performed all the female roles, except for Marcia Brady. Together, they have appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 am...
, and Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade
Upright Citizens Brigade
The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational comedy and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The most recent incarnation consists of Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh...
. Andy and Sarah live in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
and have two children, William and Mercy.
Sarah has written a memoir about her childhood entitled Dark at the Roots published by Counterpoint Press, which is being developed for television.