David Sedaris
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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.