8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
do not drink while listening - you will snort out your nose
Date of Review: Jan 4, 2008
The Bottom Line: If you like slightly dark humor, you will love Sedaris reading Sedaris!
David Sedaris: Live at Carnegie Hall is a hilarious cd. These stories are funny written down, but Sedaris' deadpan delivery sends everyone who I have seen listen to it into peals of side splitting laughter.
The humor may not be for everyone – Sedaris is a keen observer and it can be very disconcerting – he laughs at some of the hardest and weirdest parts of life. We keep pulling the book off of the shelf to be able to read Six to Eight Black Men to our friends and family (It is a super funny story about Christmas customs in Amsterdam, blind hunters and ending slavery – it doesn't sound like it could possibly be funny but it is extremely comical). On the other hand, we do skip tracks like Stadium Buddy when my mom is listening with us because she just doesn't want to hear about him peeing while on-stage. Other tracks skewer his interactions with his family (from sister Amy getting him to wear women's slacks to his sister Lisa asking him not to include the story he is telling in his writing – you do wonder if his parents are long suffering or just as crazy as he is). Get it you will laugh out loud.
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