David Sedaris
speaker
2,542 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 17 Aug
David Sedaris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Gosh I haven't read this.
Well, I read it on stage when I recorded the audiobook, and I think that was the last time.
I haven't read it out loud on the book tour.
When I first moved to New York in 1990, I knew a total of five people.
They all had lives of their own.
I couldn't just plop myself down and demand their attention.
So I signed up for a once a week class taught at the West Side YMCA, hoping I could make a friend or two there.
Writing funny, the course was called, and it was taught by a British woman named Frida Garmays, who was maybe in her mid sixties at the time, and had published several books.
What are the rules of comedy writing?
she asked at the start of our first session.
I put my hand up.
You should never make fun of anyone who has less power than you.
looked at me with a combination of disgust and pity.
Where on earth did you get that idea?
she asked.
I groped for an answer.
The village voice, maybe?
No no no, she said.
The only rule
in comedy is that you should always be as tasteless as possible.
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