# David Sedaris - Anyone a fan? Have any of you seen him live? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comedian-jokes\ **Created:** [June 7, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351 "2017-06-07T12:55:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/81 "2021-02-12T16:18:05Z")
going to call his brother Paul to possibly fix my wood floor. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/82 "2021-02-12T16:18:59Z")
Let us know how the Rooster does on your floor! ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/83 "2021-02-14T01:05:45Z")
he is probably very busy so I may talk to others if he can’t work on it soon. I’ve seen his van around town. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/84 "2021-02-14T01:28:21Z")
David used to be my brother-in-law’s mother’s apartment cleaner in NYC back before he quit his day job. She would tell my BIL how amusing her cleaner was, and how he should come by on cleaning day to meet him, but he declined. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/85 "2021-03-14T21:51:23Z")
The second volume of his diaries is coming this fall - woohoo! > **[First Look: David Sedaris' next diary collection will be a devilishly good time](https://ew.com/books/david-sedaris-carnival-of-snackery-first-look/)** > > First Look: David Sedaris' next diary collection will be a devilishly good time ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/86 "2021-03-14T23:36:09Z")
I went to a reading by him at a local bookstore and got a couple of his books signed. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/87 "2022-04-19T20:38:39Z")
Bumped. Sedaris spoke in Cleveland last night and of course I went. He was great. He talked about his new gig as the resident curmudgeon on _CBS Sunday Morning_, for which he can write no more than two pages’ worth of material for each broadcast (one of the pieces he read last night was a good bit longer than that, and he said it started out at two pages “but then it got away from me”). He remembered seeing Andy Rooney on _60 Minutes_ back when he was a kid and thinking, “That could be me! I want to be doing that someday. And now here I am, America’s grump.” He talked about writing for _The New Yorker_, too, and how he sometimes has to fight the editors. Once they insisted he remove the phrase “jism-streaked harlot” in referring to a woman in a fancy restaurant whom he saw have a waiter put bacon on a plate and then put the plate on the floor for her dog. On the other hand, they let him use the word “cunt” in the punchline for a joke when they agreed there was no better (or funnier) word to use. “So it’s kind of a give-and-take situation,” he said. A diary excerpt he read: he was once at the airport when two little girls ran onto the elevator with him. Their mother, struggling with their luggage and not able to get there in time, called out to the girls, “Go to the third floor - the third floor! - and I’ll meet you there.” Just as the elevator doors were closing, he said to her, “They’re _my_ girls now.” Funny and terrible: pure Sedaris. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/88 "2022-04-19T22:21:09Z")
I’m a huge Sedaris fan (David and Amy… and the Rooster, I guess). But I can’t get my wife to come see him live. “I don’t want to watch someone read their book.” I have no comeback for that, it’s exactly what he does… brilliantly. I went to Douglas Adams and Tom Robbins\* by myself for the same reason. (Robbins read his first chapter from an upcoming book, _Still Life With Woodpecker._ When he was done, and we’d all finished laughing, he said “I’m so glad you liked that. The book’s at the printer, with that chapter cut out. I’m glad someone got to hear it.”) ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/89 "2022-04-19T22:48:08Z")
He was my best friend in school. We don’t keep in as close touch these days, but he always leaves me a couple of tickets when he’s in town. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/90 "2022-04-19T22:49:33Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I have no comeback for that “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” –HERBERT SPENCER (or so it is said) Of course, you know your wife best, don’t use this if it might cause excess dysharmony. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/91 "2022-04-19T23:20:04Z")
Thanks, but I’ll pick other battles with her. Mostly because I really don’t care if she wants to come or not (hey, cheaper if she doesn’t). And, hey, she did come to see Jerry Seinfeld with me, and that was a great show. Especially when he heckled a pushy fan, which was so perfect that I wonder if it was staged… ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/92 "2022-04-20T02:43:19Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > He was my best friend in school. We don’t keep in as close touch these days, but he always leaves me a couple of tickets when he’s in town. That’s amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/93 "2022-04-20T16:43:41Z")
Lucky you! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/94 "2022-04-21T00:41:51Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > His essay explaining the Easter Bunny to the French was my first and best experience with him. Him reading it was the best way to experience it. > > A bell?? I heard that whole bit on the car radio, and I was laughing so hard I thought I was going to crash the car. I finally went to see him live a number of years ago at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Other than it not being an ideal venue (too many people and uncomfortable seating), I still had a great time. I’m still pissed though that my sister rushed me out instead of letting me get a signed book. Next time I go alone, or she gets an Uber home. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/95 "2022-04-21T01:25:22Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > His essay explaining the Easter Bunny to the French was my first and best experience with him… > > A bell?? Et voilà… “Jesus Shaves”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/m0yqn_OK6eE/hqdefault.jpg "David Sedaris reads "Jesus Shaves" (Easter)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0yqn_OK6eE&t=48) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/96 "2022-05-06T13:17:46Z")
Just came across his father’s obit from last year: [https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/raleigh-nc/louis-sedaris-10203936](https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.dignitymemorial.com%2fobituaries%2fraleigh-nc%2flouis-sedaris-10203936&c=E,1,e9mNDEqPBkLwHs1SRR4Dp06JNg-DaFJrDdkmbjrMFnFcv2D-XDPUSdP76uIzf3epj-04oN90KqLipYXZsl7A4k2eaM9h7n4AWla8N18t&typo=1&ancr_add=1) Several of the comments below mention learning about Lou Sedaris, and even almost coming to know him, through his son’s stories. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/97 "2022-05-06T20:56:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Several of the comments below mention learning about Lou Sedaris, and even almost coming to know him, through his son’s stories. That reminds me of this story about him from when I saw David speak (paraphrased): David brags to his father the first time one of his books made the NYT Best Seller List. Lou: “Well that doesn’t mean it was good; it just meas a lot of people bought it.” David: “But why would people buy it if it wasn’t good?” Lou: “They could have been misled.” David then told the audience that if his father were there he would have been delighted by how big of a laugh that story got. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/98 "2022-05-31T13:00:13Z")
A review of Sedaris’s latest book: [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/books/review/david-sedaris-happy-go-lucky.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/books/review/david-sedaris-happy-go-lucky.html)? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/99 "2022-06-06T12:45:28Z")
No gourmet he: [David Sedaris’s Grub Street Diet](https://www.grubstreet.com/2022/06/david-sedaris-grub-street-diet.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/100 "2022-06-22T13:50:44Z")
Sedaris is the guest for the latest episode of Conan O’Brien’s podcast, _Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend_. Amusing and worth a listen. mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351.md?page=6)