So I’m reading Steve Daly’s revealing Q&A with David Sedaris, who just released another collection of essays, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and I Read the full post.
Jun 6
2008
04:50 PM ET
Your favorite David Sedaris story (other than 'The SantaLand Diaries')
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Oh, I love Sedaris so much. He’s even funnier in person. Other than SantaLand…well, I can’t remember the exact title anymore (and don’t have my books handy), but another from the Holidays on Ice Collection. It’s called something like “Dinah, the Christmas Whore.”
A Plague of Tics (from Naked) is my favorite Sedaris story. I read it often and it never fails to crack me up!
Definitely “Six to Eight Black Men.”
Can’t remember the title of the story but it’s the one from Me Talk Pretty One Day where he and his boyfriend go to the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam to take a break from the apartment hunt in Paris. I love the part where they’re in the attic and he starts sizing up the place and thinking how they can remodel it and make it the perfect home.
A Plague of Tics, absolutely. lol!
I ADORE Santalan Diaries. He may not like it so much anymore, but I think that it’s great!
However, I really like another one of his holiday stories that involves the people who try to outdo one other in what they own and then what they give away. I also like the one about the daughter of his neighbor who tags along with him and then ends up destroying some picture/photo that he did and he says how it’s the most artistic thing that he’d ever seen.
“Jesus Shaves”, hands down.
When I drove back and forth to work as a high school teacher, I used to listen to that CD of David Sedaris reading stories live from Carnegie Hall. I agree with an earlier commenter–”Six to Eight Black Men” almost caused an accident. I was crying with laughter. I now play it every Christmas, as a sort of holiday tradition. If I have children, I will let them know that if they’re not good, Santa will pretend to kick you, stuff you in a sack, and kidnap you. Good times!
’6 to 8 black men.’ all i have to do is think about it and i die laughing.
“Six to Eight Black Men” and “The Drama Bug”. Listening to “The Drama Bug” being read aloud by David is hysterical!
Oh god, “You Can’t Kill the Rooster” is a riot. And as an American living in Denmark, most of the French stories in “Me Talk Pretty One Day” has had SO much resonance for me – especially going through the special torture of language school.
I own the unabridged CD boxset of him reading everything up to Me Talk Pretty One Day, there is no bad essay read by David Sedaris. I can’t wait to listen to the whole thing again!
Is “You Can’t Kill the Rooster” the story about his brother’s wedding? If so, then yes, that is the funniest story EVER. I love the “straight from the tap” part – truly sick, but funny which is so him.
All Time Favorite Sedaris Stories:
1. Six to Eight Black Men
2. You Can’t Kill The Rooster
3. Blood Work
4. Great Leap Forward
5. Repeat After Me
6. Plaque Of Tics
The funniest American writer ever, in my humble opinion.
The first time I ever heard David Sedaris was on “This American Life” reading “Naked.” I laughed so hard I almost wrecked my car. It’s still my favorite. Reading it is funny, but hearing him read it is hysterical.