| 17 August 2011
Whether he’s reading a story about a dog licking his nether-regions (Squirrel Seeks Elephant) or a youth sporting a ‘Funky Motha Focka’ T-shirt (Standing By), Sedaris still manages to do so intelligently, and, were it not for the farting airline stewards (aka ‘crop dusting’) and the infinite piles of sh*t rampant in China, you’d be fooled into thinking this talk was all a very civilised affair.
Sedaris demands to know why only he has ever led with a story on the poo-rific ordeals of the Orient, elaborating on his findings there in terms of unappetising food, phlegm and other antics seen as fantastically odd through the eyes of a foreigner.
Much fun is poked at his home country in I’m Not Running for President, where he breaks many-a-balls involved in the circus that is American politics, and he summons more prolonged laughter with anecdotes on roadside North Carolina billboards and his own witty one-liner diary entries.
His memoirs have not lost their juvenile hilarity over the years and, thankfully, the 54-year-old author is still observing the behaviors around him with a detailed mockery that the self-indulgent pessimist in us all can only relish.
David Sedaris, Venue 150 @ EICC, 16-20 Aug, 6.30pm
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