Want to listen to something hilarious? If you're a fan of Public Radio, you have probably heard David Sedaris reading his stories. Or perhaps read them in "The New Yorker", "Esquire", or in his books. He's a very funny, irreverent, whimsical gay man and devastating when it comes to satirizing his family. And he's not afraid of being the butt of jokes. He lives in France so there are touches of humor involving dealing with the Gallic language. Unless you're immunized against laughter, you'll roar about the man with the rubber hand, blind hunters, wearing women's clothes when men's clothes don't fit, parrots, a contraption for the incontinent, and many mundane items he manages to make subjects of humor.
It's the way he reads his pieces as well as the pieces themselves that provoke laughs. Every good reader aloud is something of an actor. Sedaris is a comedian delivering one-liners in the progress of his narratives. The Dutch St. Nicholas legend he recounts is a classic. Lie in bed at night or in the morning and listen to this guy. You'll crack up. As with every comedian, either you like him or you don't, so you're going to have to see if you're on his wave length. I've heard him before, but I've never before heard him deliver seventy minutes of uninterrupted hilarity like he does on this Carnegie Hall CD.
[[ASIN:0975275682 Nine Lives Too Many]]
[[ASIN:0975275674 The Daemon in Our Dreams]]
[[ASIN:0975275666 The Rice Queen Spy]] |