by Claudio
There is something funny or touching, or just interesting, in everything around us. No worries if you don’t see it all that clearly. Or if you don’t see it at all! Maybe you are busy, or too distracted playing your own part as an extra in the comedy of day-to-day life. It’s all okay, we have David Sedaris to do it for us. Either in his books – a body of work that covers the average dining room table – or during one of his readings that he tours with around the world, almost non-stop.
This was the case earlier this month at the DeLaMar, where 600 spectators came out to see the sublime art of finding sweet, simple absurdity, and then to wrap it up tightly in the perfect story. We were there to see the world through his eyes, in all its hilarious and touching detail. For us, in Amsterdam, Sedaris did it wearing shorts. Over it he had on a slashed up frock coat that made him look more like a clown in a traveling circus, than how he himself described it: a rabbi that’s just made it out of a knife fight.
