David Sedaris

you know, that kind of horrified sound.

That's all fine with me.

I mean, there are different laughs, too.

You know, there's a laugh of shock, and there's a laugh of recognition, and there's a laugh that says, I shouldn't be laughing at this, but look, I am.

So... And I can gauge them.

You know, I've just been doing this for so long.

I can gauge it.

And then, like...

Sometimes if you have, well, try it again next time, I said, and then you change it to, I said, try it again next time, then it'll work.

So if I have the opportunity to have the audience in front of me, I don't want to read anything the same way twice in a row.

I want to take the opportunity to change that word repeatedly.

There's something I'm working on.

I've been reading out loud, and it's a crow, and it would be the name of a crow, right?

Like, I determine the crow's name.

And so I thought... I've been going with Scott, but then I changed it to... And Scott gets a huge laugh.

And then I tried, oh, Thomas.

Thomas would work.

And then I tried Thomas, and it got nothing.

Why is Scott...

a good name for a crow and Thomas not.