# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [November 29, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/101 "2022-11-29T22:54:09Z")
Bleak but funny, from March of this year: [“Lucky-Go-Happy,” a New Essay by David Sedaris | The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/lucky-go-happy) ---
**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:** [December 22, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/102 "2022-12-22T16:13:34Z")
And, as ever, the perfect tonic for enforced holiday cheer: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/u5XLjG_S6eE/hqdefault.jpg "SantaLand Diaries: David Sedaris") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5XLjG_S6eE) ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/103 "2022-12-22T17:21:17Z")
His writing is a bit reminiscent of Jean Shepherd to me and I enjoy it a lot, but not so much his voice. He sounds like a 12 year old or something. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/104 "2022-12-22T17:30:28Z")
I love his voice! Maybe because I heard him on the radio a lot at first. Now, whenever I read his books, I hear them in his voice, and it makes them even more special to me. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/105 "2022-12-23T19:04:42Z")
Yes, definitely. I get his audiobooks whenever possible. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/106 "2022-12-23T19:56:11Z")
I like the stuff I’ve heard on NPR over the years and bought tickets to see him live at a rather large performing arts theater. There was no added value; just a small man behind a podium reading from a page. Nothing extemporaneous at all and zero stage presence. I’m not sure what I expected, though. The week before, in the same theater, we saw Garrison Keeler who was very engaged with the audience, plus fresh material, so maybe I set my bar too high. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/107 "2022-12-23T23:59:50Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I like the stuff I’ve heard on NPR over the years and bought tickets to see him live at a rather large performing arts theater. There was no added value; That’s definitely not been my experience. Also you should experience his meet/greet/signings after the shows, OMG the chats he has with everyone! Hilarious! ---
**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:** [December 24, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/108 "2022-12-24T00:18:11Z")
As I said in post #86, I went to a reading by him in a local bookstore and got some books signed. He not only answered questions from people as they got signatures from him, but he even asked them questions himself. Of course, the real difference from what’s mentioned in post #106 is that he was speaking to a much smaller audience at the event I went to than the one that’s mentioned in post #106. It appears that if you want to hear him speak, you should only go to events with a fairly small audience. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/109 "2022-12-29T20:57:12Z")
For your holiday enjoyment: https://www.youtube.com/embed/f3YbH2U9dgA?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PL-T8A9qy5vj58PsvzbEmpmZkq0AxvEi5U ---
**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:** [January 17, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/110 "2023-01-17T22:05:48Z")
Just finished his latest collection, _Happy-Go-Lucky_, which is good but not great. I find I still prefer his early stuff. ---
**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 29, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/111 "2023-03-29T20:23:29Z")
He was on with Maher a few days ago. Can’t find the whole episode online, but here’s an excerpt: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VHezj3FQtdQ/maxresdefault.jpg "David Sedaris on Kids and Teens | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHezj3FQtdQ) ---
**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 6, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351/112 "2024-03-06T16:39:18Z")
Bumped. Now he’s written a kids’ book!: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7PKigrTe9k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7PKigrTe9k) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-sedaris-anyone-a-fan-have-any-of-you-seen-him-live/788351.md?page=5)