Sounds like most of her problems had more to with prison/legal issues than drugs. Synanon is a new-age religious cult, similar to Scientology. Florrie cleaned up and wound up dying from liver cancer and kidney failure just a few yrs later at 52 (most likely back on opiates administered to dull pain). Such irony
LOL!! My favorite lines: "I was operated on by the same doctor who operated on the late Jayne Mansfield's son, Zolten, when he was mauled by the lion"............."straight B student"........."she was part Negro, Spanish and Indian; and believe me, she had the beauty of all three"......."Her prognoses is nil"......."I work for 52 dollars per week in a house of retarded children"
Oh, I love this. Those poor kids look like they're mortified. Sedaris even picked up on the weird eye twitch
@ritter89 About the straight B student,: "I've found out since, that they fused her spine and neck,and she will always be stiff. But It doesn't make any difference because she is a raving maniac and her prognosis is nil!"
She still comes from a place of grandiosity. Her anger is off-putting. And she does NOTHING to connect with her audience who look appalled to be in her raging presence.
I don't know why people think this is funny, I think this woman knows what she's talking about. Only people who have seen this world know what it's like.
Pretty crazy stuff for the time this was filmed... students were used to PSAs like 'reefer madness' that were easy to laugh at. But this is a bit different. These kids look like they are in total shock.
I'm 42 and I'm still suffering from the bad calls I made at high-school. Honestly I doubt it would have made *any* difference if I had met this woman, as teenagers we have an extraordinary ability to say 'it won't happen to me' no matter what the evidence is.
While this seems dated now, I think the message is still excellent. Especially the part where she talks about how the parents don't care...they don't even bother coming to school functions. I hope this lady somehow knows (cuz I think she'd have to be pretty old by now - mid 80s) that she still is making a good impression. Granted, Amy Sedaris did use her for her "Strangers With Candy" but it's really sort of an homage.
I kinda had a lady like this come in and talk to my Sophomore class back in the day. She wasn't as rough looking, but she was dying AIDS because of all the needle sharing and drug use. I was intrigued! These kids look so bored...
I love Strangers w/ Candy, but I dont think everyone should be making fun of this woman. Her story is real, she really suffered, and it's a tragedy. BUT, she also reminds me of the football coach woman in Beetlejuice
OMG, this totally inspired Jerri Blank. That's how Jerri became Jerri (google it). Good call without knowning! Besides that, this is hysterical. They don't give a fuck what she's talking about.
This horrible woman went back to drugs after this con act did some more time and eventually disappeared, no known whereabouts. Probably murdered for a snort of horse LOLOL
3:55 "I was trown from a horse and a laminectomy... and was operated on my the same doctor who operated on the late Jayne Mansfield's son Zolton when he was mauled by the lion. " You couldn't make this up, or could you? My vote is she is lying during most of her rant.
2 years prison for possession of a needle? Wow that is hardcore...In Australia we have needle exchanges and a harm minimisation approach, thank God... "Zero tolerance" doesn't work- how many people are in US jails for non-violent offences? It is ridiculous. Save it for the violent assholes...
I wish we would have had speakers like this at my high school. I would have paid more attention to someone like this than those wussies from the church they brought in.
It's not right to say she was getting high at this point unless you know for sure. However, in this segment she is acting a bit sped-up, loud, emotional, and seemingly a little out of control, made even more noticeable by the young age of her audience.
I've never even heard of this woman until today. Wow, you learn something new everyday.
Crazy to hear someone from that era so knowledgeable about everything from H to Desoxyn. I thought people back then were in the dark ages when it came to drugs. Although I can't agree that LSD will make you crazy. Luckily we have benzodiazepines readily available today to snap you out of a "bad trip." They probably just knocked you out with barbituates back then when you freaked out. Not that I know anything about drugs... Stay in school kids.
There are rumors but no one is sure. By most accounts, she fell off the wagon. Miami police arrested her after this for possession of narcotics and possession of stolen property.
It did. Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert saw it and got Amy to do an impression, and that became the show. A lot of the one liners from the show is directly from this.
"I was operated on by the same surgeon who operated on the late Jayne Mansfield's son Zoltan when he was mauled by the lion." Florrie breaks it the fuck down!
The only other time I heard anyone use the term goofballs was on that stupid anti-drug episode of Diff'rent Strokes where Nancy Reagan guest starred. LOL...
@funwithshortsfan SHE DID LOL!!!! almost everything from the show "strangers with candy" came from this chick. check out this video Strangers with Candy Q & A [3 of 6]
Wow, I feel like I am 16 years ago at an assembly on anti-drug issues! We were told all of this but not as good as this woman!
Instead of her we got Tommy Roe films! Yeah the dude who had a hit called "Dizzy", well after he crashed into the world of drugs and came out again, he made films to encourage a drug free life.
I'll tell you what, if I had been one of those kids sitting there listening to that woman ramble, I would have stayed far away from the drugs. Most definitely.
Florrie Fisher had stayed with my family back in the late 60s/early 70s while she was on tour with her speech at local high schools. I remember my mother being apprehensive about her staying with my family, but she turned out to be a very nice lady. Last I heard, back in the 70s she took her life. Who knows, but I know she did save lives with her talk. Thanks, Florrie.
Did she just say that England had legalized weed? What a complete bullshitter. This isn't sad, her story isn't sad. She's completely ridiculous. This shit's classic.
I watched this PSA a year ago, and ever since then my brother and I occasionally just go, "And the prognosis is NIL!" to crack each other up. Florrie Fisher is the best!
"Where you eat, and you sleep, and you mess on the floor and you lay naked for make and female guards to check up on you and in the morning because the smell is ridiculous you're hosed out by a power hose!"
She definintely inspired Strangers With Candy. This PSA is on the complete series DVD and is credited as the "PSA that Inspired the Show." Or something like that, but yeah.
chavez: Hahahaha a Ratfink is a treachorous turn-coat -- now someone tell chavez what a turn-coat is (but use another phrase so he never gets a straight answer, haha) *rubbing hands mischieviously*
I would say this was in the late 60's or early 70's
"..I was operated by the same DR. who worked on the Late Jane Mansfield's son-Zolan when he got MAULED by a Lion.." OH God! ROFLMAO!!! As Gay man it doesn't get any BETTER that statement.
the band teacher at my school is the spitting image of this woman and she's got one of those extreme liz taylor suntans and her hair is just like this it's so crazy.
Wow - it is like a "Scared Straight" program. It has to be the inspiration for Jerri. Did you catch the part about how you lay naked on a floor and have no toilet but just get hosed down in the morning? And male guards watch you? Sick system.
"YOU SIT ON THE FLOOR AND MESS ON THE FLOOR AND EAT AND SLEEP AND LIE NAKED FOR ALL MALE AND FEMALE GAURDS TO CHECK UP ON YOU AND IN THE MORNING BCUZ THE SMELL IS REDICULOUS THEY HOSE U OUT AND TELL U WHEN TO EAT, HOW TO EAT BEANS....AND...AND...CORNBREAD" roflmoa
If I remember correctly this lady inspired the show Strangers With Candy. She was a former addict turned public speaker. She disappeared without a trace if I recall correctly.
It would be HIL-AR-I-OUS (to quote Jeri Blank) to refilm this with Jeri Blank speaking to the kids doing her OWN speech and still keep the footage of the same kids looking at her in horror...
I love this logic: Only 50 parents show up for 3000 kids = "parents don't give a damn" !
By the way, Wikipedia states that she gave conflicting info about her age in her autobio, so if she can't be accurate about her age do you think she can be believed about anything else? Not a chance.
her name was florie fisher. she was a crack whore who ended up in prison and reformed. When she got out of prison she gave public service speeches to young people. there's a lot of info about her on wikipedia!
Ok Strangers... I just finished watching this :O It's like she's taking out all of the frustration of not being able to do her drugs anymore on all of the kids. I can't believe they showed this in schools. Later in life, anyone who actually listened to her had to go in for anger management classes!
"I don't say God is dead, I only say that for many, many years we weren't on speaking terms." This is a lot better than I thought it'd be.
dulaneyj 2 months ago
Oh! My! Goddess! Fast forward to 4:00 and watch her go off. It's friggin' PRICELESS!!!
PatrickDC202 2 months ago
Sounds like most of her problems had more to with prison/legal issues than drugs. Synanon is a new-age religious cult, similar to Scientology. Florrie cleaned up and wound up dying from liver cancer and kidney failure just a few yrs later at 52 (most likely back on opiates administered to dull pain). Such irony
ritter89 3 months ago
BTW, this DID inspire Strangers With Candy. Sedaris's character, Jerri Blank, is based directly on Ms Florrie Fischer.
ritter89 3 months ago
LOL!! My favorite lines: "I was operated on by the same doctor who operated on the late Jayne Mansfield's son, Zolten, when he was mauled by the lion"............."straight B student"........."she was part Negro, Spanish and Indian; and believe me, she had the beauty of all three"......."Her prognoses is nil"......."I work for 52 dollars per week in a house of retarded children"
Oh, I love this. Those poor kids look like they're mortified. Sedaris even picked up on the weird eye twitch
ritter89 3 months ago
@ritter89 About the straight B student,: "I've found out since, that they fused her spine and neck,and she will always be stiff. But It doesn't make any difference because she is a raving maniac and her prognosis is nil!"
strawberryseason 3 months ago
She is such a dynamic speaker. Too bad her life took a bad turn. She would make an excellent lawyer or professor.
strawberryseason 5 months ago
then 'YOU END UP LIVING IN VANNNNNNNNN DOWN BY THE RIVER"... It reminded me of Chris Farley's RIP motivational speaker....
hollywoodhottie19 5 months ago
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hollywoodhottie19 5 months ago
Florida- beautiful weather, harsh penal system.
dylanbonnar 7 months ago 4
"$52 a week in a house full of retarded children."
Y10NRDY 7 months ago
lol wut?
translucentorb 10 months ago
I hated days like this at school. Scare 'em straight techniques never work. You can't scare someone that thinks they're immortal.
TheGeneralCritic 11 months ago 3
BEYOND AMAZING!
turbo1964 1 year ago 2
She still comes from a place of grandiosity. Her anger is off-putting. And she does NOTHING to connect with her audience who look appalled to be in her raging presence.
This is NOT recovery.
mr39jeffy 1 year ago 3
I don't know why people think this is funny, I think this woman knows what she's talking about. Only people who have seen this world know what it's like.
MommieDearest67 1 year ago
Pretty crazy stuff for the time this was filmed... students were used to PSAs like 'reefer madness' that were easy to laugh at. But this is a bit different. These kids look like they are in total shock.
I'm 42 and I'm still suffering from the bad calls I made at high-school. Honestly I doubt it would have made *any* difference if I had met this woman, as teenagers we have an extraordinary ability to say 'it won't happen to me' no matter what the evidence is.
kanojo1969 1 year ago
While this seems dated now, I think the message is still excellent. Especially the part where she talks about how the parents don't care...they don't even bother coming to school functions. I hope this lady somehow knows (cuz I think she'd have to be pretty old by now - mid 80s) that she still is making a good impression. Granted, Amy Sedaris did use her for her "Strangers With Candy" but it's really sort of an homage.
MsTimetowaste 1 year ago
It's like if Sophia from Golden Girls had a really rough life. "Back in Sicily, the big thing to take was absinthe..."
bondfool 1 year ago 3
"She is a RAVING MANIAC!!! and her prognosis is nil"
WholeLottaGreer 1 year ago 3
@WholeLottaGreer ''She will always be stiff''.
dylanbonnar 7 months ago 2
..."Zoltan"?
CrimsonDeluxe 1 year ago
It's strikingly hard to keep up with her bafflingly intense lecture, what kind of PSA is that, one where it's hard as hell to find the message???
oHelmslyo 1 year ago
I kinda had a lady like this come in and talk to my Sophomore class back in the day. She wasn't as rough looking, but she was dying AIDS because of all the needle sharing and drug use. I was intrigued! These kids look so bored...
akateb71489 1 year ago
she does have some really good things to say, but i thing she was only really reaching that light skinned girl in the back.
mary834eva 1 year ago
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imajika2 1 year ago
I hate to say it, but she reminds me SO much of innumerable 12-steppers...drove me batty!!
bhinderbinder 1 year ago
I love Strangers w/ Candy, but I dont think everyone should be making fun of this woman. Her story is real, she really suffered, and it's a tragedy. BUT, she also reminds me of the football coach woman in Beetlejuice
ModernitySlays 1 year ago
@ModernitySlays LOL You mean Juno the caseworker?
papatoony 1 year ago
Are we supposed to think that girl blowing her nose at 8:13 was touched by this ridiculous story?
wicaco 1 year ago
How much do you think she charged?
yewrev9 1 year ago
i almost DIED when i saw her and jerri blank together. I just cant take this seriously. i love swc
MariaAdelina 1 year ago 2
Homegirl knows how to party.
4JNC 1 year ago
OMG, this totally inspired Jerri Blank. That's how Jerri became Jerri (google it). Good call without knowning! Besides that, this is hysterical. They don't give a fuck what she's talking about.
driftngawayagain 1 year ago 3
This woman knows next to nothing about drugs, obviously. And I'm loading a bowl as I type this which I'll be smoking once this video is over.
prydain17 1 year ago
This horrible woman went back to drugs after this con act did some more time and eventually disappeared, no known whereabouts. Probably murdered for a snort of horse LOLOL
TheJomogogo 1 year ago
@TheJomogogo No, she didn't go back to drugs. She died of liver cancer.
strawberryseason 5 months ago
@strawberryseason Believe me, she was back on opiates if she died from liver cancer---which is an excruciatingly painful way to die
ritter89 3 months ago
i love how shes giving this speech while high out of her tree and smoking a fag. fabulous!
ronnymatt81 1 year ago 2
Why was the first part of this video yanked?
zionismisevil 1 year ago
"...but it doesn't make any difference b/c she is a raving maniac, and her prognosis is nill."
icebud 1 year ago 2
"Start using goofballs!" This monologue would make for some awesome sampling over some beats.
refugeenius 1 year ago 6
"I don't expect much from you kids!"
CaliforniaJazzy 2 years ago 2
im totally high while watching this...i agree with all she says except everything about marijuana. marijuana is safe and has never hurt anyone.
xgoxdiexxx 2 years ago 2
"He was out getting high, stealing a car!"
Because when I get high, I ALWAYS steal cars...
imon2u 2 years ago
She had charisma and, dare I say, sex appeal. Given the right time period, she would have had her own talk show.
MisterCool 2 years ago
A snort of horse...
CEP707 2 years ago
Holy shit I kept expecting her to take a pause at some point, but, it just DOESN'T HAPPEN.
sgtcampsalot 2 years ago 2
I don't know why...but watching this makes me want to smoke a cigarette.
smallfrylol 2 years ago 17
i feel a strong motivation to get high while watching this
DrSpaceman420 2 years ago 4
"Morphiney"?
momwentcrazy 2 years ago
Oh, now I see what she means.
Thisisnotmyrealname8 2 years ago
"From this comes the worst diseases!" From Florrie Fisher comes one of the best comedies ever, Strangers With Candy!
antney1108 2 years ago 4
Straight-B student, she has so many brilliant phrases!
webuster 2 years ago 4
jesus take a breath lady
mmdaltx 2 years ago 3
3:55 "I was trown from a horse and a laminectomy... and was operated on my the same doctor who operated on the late Jayne Mansfield's son Zolton when he was mauled by the lion. " You couldn't make this up, or could you? My vote is she is lying during most of her rant.
turbo1964 2 years ago
but, but, but... the war on drugs!!!11
SZF123456 2 years ago
2 years prison for possession of a needle? Wow that is hardcore...In Australia we have needle exchanges and a harm minimisation approach, thank God... "Zero tolerance" doesn't work- how many people are in US jails for non-violent offences? It is ridiculous. Save it for the violent assholes...
Evilushka 2 years ago 4
Holy shit that is SWC! She even looks like Jerri Blank!
CyrusNixes 2 years ago 3
Holy crap this is SO Strangers with Candy stuff!!
gsotoaz 2 years ago
I wish we would have had speakers like this at my high school. I would have paid more attention to someone like this than those wussies from the church they brought in.
starshapedpickle 2 years ago 2
Jerri Blank also had a laminectomy!
antney1108 2 years ago 3
swc is based on this broad
tohuvohu7 2 years ago
Thank you Captain Obvious!
antney1108 2 years ago
I kid you.
antney1108 2 years ago
It's not right to say she was getting high at this point unless you know for sure. However, in this segment she is acting a bit sped-up, loud, emotional, and seemingly a little out of control, made even more noticeable by the young age of her audience.
I've never even heard of this woman until today. Wow, you learn something new everyday.
djalextorsell 2 years ago 3
FYI, this chick's name is Florrie Fisher. You can wiki her for more info.
Russell218 2 years ago
Crazy to hear someone from that era so knowledgeable about everything from H to Desoxyn. I thought people back then were in the dark ages when it came to drugs. Although I can't agree that LSD will make you crazy. Luckily we have benzodiazepines readily available today to snap you out of a "bad trip." They probably just knocked you out with barbituates back then when you freaked out. Not that I know anything about drugs... Stay in school kids.
Russell218 2 years ago 7
wow this chicks talk gets me hard.
kirkuleaz 2 years ago 4
too bad she fell off the wagon and was never seen again :(
xericascholliex 2 years ago
This lady here in the video disappeared?
No one knows what ever happened to her?
shimokita2 2 years ago
There are rumors but no one is sure. By most accounts, she fell off the wagon. Miami police arrested her after this for possession of narcotics and possession of stolen property.
amaraya 2 years ago
Very wise woman
McPfoot 2 years ago
Did this really inspire Strangers With Candy?
I still can't believe the resemblance to Jerry Blank.
shimokita2 2 years ago
It did. Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert saw it and got Amy to do an impression, and that became the show. A lot of the one liners from the show is directly from this.
amaraya 2 years ago 2
Interesting story about that.
shimokita2 2 years ago
haha omg jerri blank!!
damienxxxpele 2 years ago
Is this real?
shimokita2 2 years ago
yes, all too real.
kassadaga 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
"I'VE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY!!!!"
thenewrapstyle 2 years ago 3
i miss coke. almost ruined me.
johnneedslove 2 years ago
soda rots your teeth, i do too
ahhhh, coke, delicious fizzy mercury laden corn syrup yum yum goodness
FATGIRLSRHOT 2 years ago
"I was operated on by the same surgeon who operated on the late Jayne Mansfield's son Zoltan when he was mauled by the lion." Florrie breaks it the fuck down!
baldpipeguy 3 years ago 27
FLORRIE FOR PRESIDENT!!!
fflybz 3 years ago
For retarded children!
LMFAO!
fflybz 3 years ago
"Five little kids, maybe 2, 4, 6, and 8..."
;D
bobdafrogg 3 years ago
i miss florida.
RemyDareAgogo 3 years ago
are you listening? i haaave a boyfriend.
RemyDareAgogo 3 years ago
"I was thrown from a horse and I had a laminectomy"
She was given a lobotomy!
Funny how she says how bad drugs are, but she sits up there in front of all those kids with a cigarette in her hand.
jessie74 3 years ago 6
I like the pole annnnd the hole
sagn 3 years ago 6
she needs to come to my school
SaUcEiTuPbItCh 3 years ago
idk why but this scares the crap out of me
meemeur 3 years ago
...fandango?
ajmoo 3 years ago 4
hobocamp? hobocamp!!
Danaisprettyrad 3 years ago 4
I wanna travel back in time to roll my eyes in person. Amazin...
adelepham 3 years ago 2
The Jew in the back, I know what you're thinking. "Not me."
jeffeljefe 3 years ago 7
Amy Sedaris said this was her inspiration for Jerri Blank and Strangers with Candy. She even uses some of the same phrases.
bickleygirl 3 years ago 2
The only other time I heard anyone use the term goofballs was on that stupid anti-drug episode of Diff'rent Strokes where Nancy Reagan guest starred. LOL...
Armadillo282000 3 years ago
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funwithshortsfan 3 years ago 25
@funwithshortsfan SHE DID LOL!!!! almost everything from the show "strangers with candy" came from this chick. check out this video Strangers with Candy Q & A [3 of 6]
armondpb 1 year ago
Wow, I feel like I am 16 years ago at an assembly on anti-drug issues! We were told all of this but not as good as this woman!
Instead of her we got Tommy Roe films! Yeah the dude who had a hit called "Dizzy", well after he crashed into the world of drugs and came out again, he made films to encourage a drug free life.
aramanth 3 years ago
I'll tell you what, if I had been one of those kids sitting there listening to that woman ramble, I would have stayed far away from the drugs. Most definitely.
spasticnerfbag 3 years ago 2
Florrie Fisher had stayed with my family back in the late 60s/early 70s while she was on tour with her speech at local high schools. I remember my mother being apprehensive about her staying with my family, but she turned out to be a very nice lady. Last I heard, back in the 70s she took her life. Who knows, but I know she did save lives with her talk. Thanks, Florrie.
LindaBF19 3 years ago 4
crazy
adelepham 3 years ago
Wow! That's pretty sad :(
roxynotes 3 years ago
Pizza pizza Pizza!
Gooood Times.
FansFiltration 3 years ago 4
They should call this film "Bored Straight."
MondoBeno 3 years ago 5
According to Wikipedia, Florrie relapsed. She was charged with possession of narcotics in 1971 and possession of stolen goods in 1972.
kolst8406 3 years ago 2
Did she just say that England had legalized weed? What a complete bullshitter. This isn't sad, her story isn't sad. She's completely ridiculous. This shit's classic.
UncleDaveMacon 3 years ago 2
I watched this PSA a year ago, and ever since then my brother and I occasionally just go, "And the prognosis is NIL!" to crack each other up. Florrie Fisher is the best!
BelleandSebby 3 years ago
I love SWK, I own all the seasons & the movie, but for some reason this made me tear up. It's so sad and powerful!
writteninword 3 years ago
This lady looks exactly like Amy Sedaris' character on strangers with candy lol!
keldawn77 3 years ago
haha. when she was talking lsd and horseback riding and being thrown from the horse made me crack up
sacrificaltotem 3 years ago
what a great woman
turkaderr 3 years ago
"Where you eat, and you sleep, and you mess on the floor and you lay naked for make and female guards to check up on you and in the morning because the smell is ridiculous you're hosed out by a power hose!"
hahahahahah
viehunter 3 years ago 6
What we need to talk to kids this way more often -- talk about scared straight.
Oi Vey
OctoBox 3 years ago
She definintely inspired Strangers With Candy. This PSA is on the complete series DVD and is credited as the "PSA that Inspired the Show." Or something like that, but yeah.
Pseudosilentbob 3 years ago
Yea, they even mentioned it in the commentary on the episode where Jerri wanted to become homecoming queen.
kmmygurl2003 3 years ago
slitting my wrists as I watched.....
jerryblanks 3 years ago
What year was this? When were stamps 10cents? What's a ratfingk?
chavez78 3 years ago
chavez: Hahahaha a Ratfink is a treachorous turn-coat -- now someone tell chavez what a turn-coat is (but use another phrase so he never gets a straight answer, haha) *rubbing hands mischieviously*
I would say this was in the late 60's or early 70's
OctoBox 3 years ago
She says, with a smoke in her left hand... I think she inspired Mike Meyer's "Coffee Talk".
lightbringerrr 3 years ago
No, I read somewhere that "Coffee Talk" was inspired by Meyers' mother-in-law.
spasticnerfbag 3 years ago
"..I was operated by the same DR. who worked on the Late Jane Mansfield's son-Zolan when he got MAULED by a Lion.." OH God! ROFLMAO!!! As Gay man it doesn't get any BETTER that statement.
I"ve got tears in my eyes!!!!! oh Christ!!!!!
strobe155 3 years ago 2
whats eerie is that she relapsed just like jerri blank did. someone has probably already said this. i'm just too lazy to go back and see.
adriantrench 3 years ago
the band teacher at my school is the spitting image of this woman and she's got one of those extreme liz taylor suntans and her hair is just like this it's so crazy.
adriantrench 3 years ago
Wow - it is like a "Scared Straight" program. It has to be the inspiration for Jerri. Did you catch the part about how you lay naked on a floor and have no toilet but just get hosed down in the morning? And male guards watch you? Sick system.
hollywoodartchick 3 years ago
It looks JUST like her.
beckybombb 3 years ago
What the hell is a GOOFBALL?
cybersalad 3 years ago
heroin mixed with speed, and injected.
lightbringerrr 3 years ago
Man, she sounds as though she is cranked up on amphetamine.
HS22181 3 years ago
Is it Jerri? ... The resemblance is uncanny. LOL
Blip925 3 years ago
Funny she's saying this with a cigarette in her hand..
Blip925 3 years ago
Looks like it was shot in the late 50's or early 60's when smoking was very much the thing to do. Sounds like a NY accent...
cpalmist 3 years ago
It's from 1970. Do a search on this woman, Florrie Fisher, and you'll find out more.
colibri1 3 years ago
where did you find this its awesome
sniffmycrak 4 years ago
it really is jerry!!!!
dkublin 4 years ago 2
Her intentions are good.... but shes crazy.
jnvestal 4 years ago
"YOU SIT ON THE FLOOR AND MESS ON THE FLOOR AND EAT AND SLEEP AND LIE NAKED FOR ALL MALE AND FEMALE GAURDS TO CHECK UP ON YOU AND IN THE MORNING BCUZ THE SMELL IS REDICULOUS THEY HOSE U OUT AND TELL U WHEN TO EAT, HOW TO EAT BEANS....AND...AND...CORNBREAD" roflmoa
1337Assassin01 4 years ago
the expressions on these kids faces are priceless!
amy1827 4 years ago
Oh my God, there was a real Jerry
booth231 4 years ago 3
I loved how she banged on about drugs being devistating then has a smoke and lighter in her hand in the very next scene.
"i work for $52 a week in a house for retarded children!" 7:25
pooohah 4 years ago
I kept waiting for her to pull a true Jerri Blank, wipe everything off the table and scurry off! Great video! Good times!
fiestabucky 4 years ago 4
This comment has received too many negative votes show
who is this bitch?
reginablablabla 4 years ago
If I remember correctly this lady inspired the show Strangers With Candy. She was a former addict turned public speaker. She disappeared without a trace if I recall correctly.
jaberwocky6669 4 years ago
Beans and cornbread in the afternoon... Mmmmmmmmmm...
tjdavis1977 4 years ago
omi god this shit is hilarious
ceegee85 4 years ago 2
Now I truly understand Jerri Blank.
cdubwingo 4 years ago 6
god this woman's enough to drive anyone to drugs.
combemodern 4 years ago 3
I laughed so hard at 3:54 "don't take drugs the're evil*holding cigarette*"
luluandherzulu 4 years ago
I want to read the book!!! seriously i know it will be good...
GAYPRIDE1985 4 years ago
what a psycho....
GAYPRIDE1985 4 years ago
Wow...just.... wow. love that ny accent too
trotzo 4 years ago
omg she makes my head hurt. I was thhown from a horse....i remeber that from the show lol and the king sized sheet
ylwbrcboi 4 years ago
18 carrot pimp! when i saw this on the dvds i went crazy
clayfighter 4 years ago
"You can't get away with it...I'm pretty smart, and I couldn't get away with it."
mrt110883 4 years ago 3
It would be HIL-AR-I-OUS (to quote Jeri Blank) to refilm this with Jeri Blank speaking to the kids doing her OWN speech and still keep the footage of the same kids looking at her in horror...
rainbowbucs224 4 years ago 9
LOL, agreed!!!
Armadillo282000 4 years ago
She's like a mix between Judge Judy and Adolf Hitler.
dopestr33t 4 years ago 6
I love this logic: Only 50 parents show up for 3000 kids = "parents don't give a damn" !
By the way, Wikipedia states that she gave conflicting info about her age in her autobio, so if she can't be accurate about her age do you think she can be believed about anything else? Not a chance.
Armadillo282000 4 years ago
Well, she seemed like the vain type who would lie about her age anyway.
pianotheme 3 years ago
Is it true this is also on the Strangers with Candy DVDs? Anyone know which season?
I love how she chain smokes and curses and screams at the kids. What a character!
Armadillo282000 4 years ago
oh florida, : (
nickeroskong 4 years ago
shes rollin
spookandgodtastic 4 years ago
she sounds like joan rivers
irondog3004 4 years ago
Omg I was thinking the same thing then I saw your comment..crazy. Who is this woman?
EriiC 4 years ago
her name was florie fisher. she was a crack whore who ended up in prison and reformed. When she got out of prison she gave public service speeches to young people. there's a lot of info about her on wikipedia!
irondog3004 4 years ago
Do a search on Synanon and you'll learn some crrrrrrrazy stuff.
tytoalba 4 years ago
*sigh* Flahrida.
tytoalba 4 years ago
Makes me wanna get high! Amsterdam here I come..LOL
AaronCraze 4 years ago
Ok Strangers... I just finished watching this :O It's like she's taking out all of the frustration of not being able to do her drugs anymore on all of the kids. I can't believe they showed this in schools. Later in life, anyone who actually listened to her had to go in for anger management classes!
sipie1969 4 years ago
It's amazing how much they were able to get Jerri to look like her... Stangers With Candy is great stuff!
sipie1969 4 years ago
what happened to the first part?
donnie10855 4 years ago
She reminds me of Judge Judy.
blairkennedy 4 years ago
and those kids' reactions are PRICELESS.
mrnack 4 years ago
lol "I'm pretty smart, and I couldn't get away with it." Thats a damn high horse.
fightingwords87 4 years ago 2
hahaha! High. Horse.
tytoalba 4 years ago
she sounds like Joan Rivers
jle1979 4 years ago
I am scared of her....
:(
nthomas32 4 years ago