Since Canedy was a little girl, she has dreamed of owning a pony. This dream has not been realized. Until it does, she amuses herself by pretending to be other people and giving the world laugh lines. Botox be damned. To this end, she performs with the Chicago City Limits touring company and Luck of the Draw- the fully improvised musical- in New York and around the country. She has portrayed many ridiculous characters on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and "improvised" her way to an ulcer in the TNN series Lifegame. She’s been a cheerleader doing whippets on Strangers with Candy, Merv the Perv’s sexy nurse on Saturday Night Live, the Statue of Liberty in a Cingular commercial and a model that resembled the love child of Joan Crawford and Raggedy Andy on Ugly Betty. If you want to see her forty feet tall, try to see a screening of Alec Baldwin’s The Devil and Daniel Webster. If you do, let her know, she’s never seen it. You can also catch her in Mona Lisa Smile, The Departed, Disney’s upcoming movie Enchanted and Spider-Man (if you don’t blink). Oh yeah, she also loves to write. She loves to take the tragedy in her life and make it fodder for comedy. With her writing partner she has developed programming for the Oxygen Network and has a rockin’ sit-com that will hopefully make them a lot of money. If it does, then she can buy a pony and be done with all this silliness.
Rex Knowles and Sherry Landrum, George Morrison, Paul Sills, Mike Nichols, Keith Johnstone, Elaine May, Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, both Hepburns, Groucho Marx, Buster Keaton, Barbie, Monty Python, Dolly Parton, Steve Martin, Macallan 18
Members
Martin Jr. High Math Club, Chattanooga High Chess Club, Urban Academy Opera Club, Barbie and the Rockers Fan Club
TV Shows
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (various characters), Lifegame (series regular), CityKids (series regular), Rescue Me (guest), Saturday Night Live (featured), Strangers with Candy (featured), Guiding Light (guest)
Films
The Departed, Enchanted, Mona Lisa Smile, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Find Me Guilty, Laughing River, Whiskey River, NYC, Spider-Man
Enchanted trailer
Albums
I do have an extensive collection of vinyls. My favorite is the Philadelphia Philharmonic Sing your Favorite Television Theme Songs. It has a rendition of "Good Times" that cannot be beat.
If you want to hear me sing on an album, try to find "Girls Night Out"- a short lived trio from the late eighties. My mom probably has a copy of it somewhere. I sing lead vocals on "I Got It Bad (and It Feels So Good)" No, I am not singing about crabs, Pete.
I love it when my friend Pete sings "Canedy Knowles" to the tune of "Holiday Roads" from Vacation on my voicemail. I once had the pleasure of seeing Cecil Taylor in concert at the Knitting Factory. He sat under the piano plinking the piano strings and pounding on the keys. The audience was nodding their heads and getting really excited. I kept imagining Cecil was thinking: "Suckers!"
I also saw Joe Strummer in Boston. I got tossed into the middle of a fight between a bouncer and a mosher. I was then promptly tossed out. It was not the type of clash I had expected.
I used to dance around my living room with a framed 8x10 of Ralph Macchio to "Let's Get Physical" by Olivia Newton John. I am a dork.
Movies
It's A Wonderful Life, Akira Kurasawa's Dreams, In the Mood for Love, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Graduate, Casablanca, 8 1/2, Jules et Jim, Il Postino, City of God, The Celebration, Goonies, Say Anything, Three Amigos, The Jerk, the original Star Wars trilogy (without Jabba the Hut digitally remastered) Breakin' 1 and 2 (Electric Bugaloo) and Grease 2.
Television
Mr. Show with Bob and Dave (ridiculously brilliant), Absolutely Fabulous (oh to be constantly drunk and wear spandex), Chapelle's Show (Okay!), Seinfeld, Simpsons, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Faulty Towers, Sex and the City (required for any single girl in NYC), Six Feet Under, Sports Night, America's Next Top Model (I admit it, this show is my TV crack- what a guilty pleasure), Grey's Anatomy
Books
When I was a little girl, my grandfather gave me my first antique book, Green Mansions. Ever since then I have voraciously collected leather-bound journeys into the past. I have rather large and somewhat valuable Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Abraham Lincoln and Louisa May Alcott collections, but my favorite book is a 200 year old bible. It contains 100 hundred years of famly history for the Spaulding family. I will read any genre (except romance- there are only so many heaving bosoms I can take.) I have read every book by Salinger, Rushdie, Austen, Palahniuk and Shakespeare. I own a copy of Joyce's "Ulysses" and managed to make it through Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" but got lost in "Gravity's Rainbow." I am a dork.
Heroes
A five year-old girl was deep in thought. Her mother asked:
"What are you thinking about?"
I replied: "I am thinking about how Joan of Arc got fired."
About me:
Industry types have said I am too tall or too short, too young or too old, too pretty or not pretty enough, too funny or not funny at all, too thin or too fat, too unique or too much like everyone else. But I think I am JUST RIGHT! Besides, you can't please everyone, so you might a well please yourself. I want world peace and a pony and if I am crowned Miss America, I will take off the heels, wipe off the vaseline and wear that tiara every damn place I can. And I have the greatest friends and family in the world. I know it to be true cause I checked Wikepedia and it said so.
Who I'd like to meet: People with pretty ponies...and Lloyd Dobler
You are forever changed cause it doesn't get much better than this!! Now we can be Aunties together at the castle when we get married to each other!!! I love you so much it hurts! M
I'm so happy you were able to come to chatt town for Miss Alexia's arrival, she is beautiful!! Can't wait to see you again in a few wks, happy new yorking!xoxo
