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David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure
If you were lucky enough to have caught a performance on David Sedaris's most recent sold-out, 34-city tour, you already know that "David Sedaris Live For Your Listening Pleasure" is a must-have album If you didn't hear it live and in person, then you're in for a treat-hilarious brand-new recordings from performances in Denver, New York, Durham, LA, and Atlanta,...more
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Published
November 24th 2009
by Hachette Audio
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A fantastic reading to listen to on tape. Love it! I listen to it over again regularly!
David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure consists of David Sedaris reading five of his essays. Cat and Baboon is one of his animal fables, a cat being groomed at the baboon’s salon before a party; Author, Author details some of Sedaris’s book tours, including a hilarious visit to CostCo; Innocence Abroad, a hysterical piece on people who pronounce foreign names “authentically”; Laugh, Kookaburra is an amusing description of his visit to Australia, his interaction with a kookaburra and the...more
David Sedaris—Live for your listening pleasure (Audio)
Genre: Radio show
Rating: 4/5
David Sedaris tells story after humorous story, always pulling laughs from his audience (the audio recording is live). This short collection of memoir-esque stories will keep you laughing the whole way through.
The recording features four stories and several diary entries that are sure to have you grinning at the least and crying from laughing at the most.
Content: ...more
Genre: Radio show
Rating: 4/5
David Sedaris tells story after humorous story, always pulling laughs from his audience (the audio recording is live). This short collection of memoir-esque stories will keep you laughing the whole way through.
The recording features four stories and several diary entries that are sure to have you grinning at the least and crying from laughing at the most.
Content: ...more
I feel like David Sedaris has become a Christmas tradition—it just doesn't feel like the holidays unless I'm listening to one of his funny, most likely inappropriate, stories. This is like an appetizer sampler platter of his work, just a short hour of four stories and some diary entries. Very, very entertaining—the first three stories had me laughing out loud while I was walking to work listening on my iPod, a little embarrassed, and yet helpless to stop. :D
Another fabulous reminder NOT to listen to David Sedaris while on public transit, lest all of the other riders begin to slowly creep away from you as you chortle, snort, and then eventually laugh loudly and for a good length of time as David describes a well-intentioned trip to Costco with his brother in law that ends with a cart full of condoms (in the hundreds) and strawberries. Seriously. Don't listen to this in public.
It took me awhile to get past the voice of the author. Once I was acclimated to it, this was more than enjoyable. The stories were funny, and not needlessly vulgar. Sedaris had me at his story about special education teachers. Something like: Is it true that most of your students don't have a learning disability, they are just a-holes?
This is only a 75 minute book, well worth the time.
This is only a 75 minute book, well worth the time.
Funny set of stories from Sedaris. You know how a lot of Sedaris' stories seem based on a very abnormal set of characters? This set seemed more normal, more believable, more understandable. More real and less showbiz. Great comic timing on these live performances. He's on the way to becoming this generation's Andy Rooney (and I think that's a good thing).
Very short--one cd. Live performances of five pieces recorded in five locations around the country. A fable about a cat and a baboon, a piece about one of his book tours, a piece he wrote for NPR that wasn't used about living abroad, a piece about Australia, and a handful of his diary entries. Good, but not amazing.
Loved it, loved it, loved it! David Sedaris is a genius! The only thing I didn't like was that it ended! This is a compilation of stories from his shows. I listened to it on audiobook and I was absolutely howling behind the wheel. I had tears in my eyes at moments. I cannot recommend it highly enough!
Audio book we listened to in the car. David Sedaris live, reading his essays--a couple I heard him do before or that were published in The New Yorker, and a couple I had never heard. His readings make the text come alive. He's funnier live than on the printed page, excellent comic timing. A lot of fun.
As always when David Sedaris reads his own work it is full of laughs. He always manages to tell a story that has a funny point that takes the whole telling to get to, but is peppered with the humor that doesn't need the full build up along the way. He brings out the absurd things in his life that are sometimes, but not often present in our own.
I hope I get a chance to listen to this author live sometime. He's absolutely freaking awesome. I was laughing so hard in the car and probably scaring fellow drivers on the interstate. I have two more of his audiobooks in my car, so I'll be bragging on him again!
Good live CD that doesn't repeat his stuff on This American Life or his books (though the animal fable in the beginning seemed familiar.) Some of the diary entries are repeated from when I saw him live, but still great.
1 CD; a very quick listen .... and every bit as hilarious as a longer book! I LOVE LOVE LOVE his dry/wry humor. And his affected 'accent' when making fun of pretentious houseguests is pee-your-pants, laugh-out-loud worthy!!!
I love Sedaris and I love when I can hear Sedaris read Sedaris no matter how strange he finds it getting paid to read to people! This has a story from his upcoming collection of fables so it's a good sneak peak.
I saw his live tour a few months ago and it was this same format but with different content. Happy to see that it includes my favorite bit, though, about the secret code words of flight attendants. Outstanding!
Okay, I swear, this is the last Sedaris I listen to in my car. I simply cannot laugh this hard and drive. While not his funniest, there is still more than enough good material in this collection to warrant a listen.
Well, I'm listening to it. You can't go wrong with David Sedaris. I laughed my butt off through the whole thing. Kookabura, Nicaraguan French, rabbits, his Dad's "at home" uniform of *gulp* underwear!
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I skipped the first story because it was an animal fable that I'd heard and disliked elsewhere, but the rest of this collection was terrific. I wish my trips to Costco were this funny.
Let's face it--I'm in love with David Sedaris. I want to be his friend. I want him to live next door to me. I want to hang out with him. David, if you are out there, heed my cry.
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Innocence Abroad was by far the best vignette. "Nicaragua" and "Thankf*ckinggodhesgone" still get me. I love David Sedaris' brand of humor.
Thanks to Judy for pointing me to this one, I hadn't heard of it. I was just getting ready for a road trip and this was great fun to listen to.
One of these days, listening to David Sedaris on cd in my car is going to get me killed. It's tough to see the road with tears streaming down your face.
Very funny! I listened to this while I was driving and I was laughing out loud! Now I'm inspired to actually read a book or two of his.
I listened to this CD while driving alone from Chicago to Colorado. I only wish there were more essays -- laughing keeps me awake.
No matter how much I keep trying, I do not think Mr Sedaris is as funny as Mr Sedaris thinks he is. This was a very fast read.
Hilarious. Found myself cracking up at his off-beat, wacky humor. From Sedaris' NPR shows. One disc, easy listening.
Some moments of hilarious inspiration, and David Sedaris is always good fun, of course, but uneven essays overall in this sampling.
This wasn't as funny as all of his earlier audio cds, but it definitely picked up near the end.
Loved it! It is worth it for the "Nicaragua" story alone. But they are all fabulous.
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David Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist and radio contributor.
Sedaris came to prominence in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries." He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. Each of his four subsequent essay collections, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice (1997), Me Talk Pretty One Day...more
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Sedaris came to prominence in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries." He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. Each of his four subsequent essay collections, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice (1997), Me Talk Pretty One Day...more
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