155. David Sedaris Returns: A Creative’s Dream and a Fact Checker’s Nightmare

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week Mike has all-timer David Sedaris back on the podcast. Sedaris, of course, wrote Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Holidays on Ice, among other classics. The two discuss where the truth lies in autobiographical non-fiction, fact-checking comedy at The New Yorker, and how to navigate storytelling when it's all too personal. Plus, David plays F**k, Marry, Kill, with his own published works and Mike can’t accept the answer. Please consider giving money to a stranger in need.

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0:00.0	I invited this woman to open for me in England.
0:05.1	And I met her at a reading, and she said, I'm a writer too, and I do what you do.
0:11.1	And so I'm doing a show tomorrow night and nodding him.
0:14.8	You're going to have five minutes, you know.
0:18.1	And then she called the tour manager and said, I'm going to need a lot more than five minutes
0:22.9	and he said no five minutes and she said
0:26.5	how would I know when my five minutes are up
0:29.2	we're at watch
0:31.3	I mean it's not that hard
0:34.9	that is the voice of the Not that horror.
0:42.6	That is the voice of the great David Sedaris.
0:45.8	Oh, I love this episode, David Sedaris.
0:50.7	David Sedaris is an iconic comedy writer. He introduced me to an entire genre of comedy writing. When I started reading him in the 1990s, a very seminal figure in my own creative process. I feel so lucky to have chatted with him today. I think you're going to love this conversation. By the way, thanks everybody who listened to Pete Holmes' Christmas movies episode last week. That was a super fun one, and I hope
1:15.9	everyone's having a nice holiday season. And thanks to everyone who came out to my shows this year.
1:21.6	I had such a blast. I went to like 40 cities or something like that. Thank you for hosting me in your town.
1:28.6	It is my new show.
1:30.0	It is going to be called The Good Life.
1:32.7	I'm doing the final performances at the Beacon Theater in New York City in March.
1:38.5	And in the meantime, I'll be in Iowa City in January.
1:42.4	I'll be in Pickering, Ontario in February, Baltimore, Northampton, as well as Burlington, Vermont.
1:50.4	It all builds up to The Good Life at the Beacon. Tickets are going fast. All of this at berbigs.com.
1:56.9	I love talking to David Sedaris. It was such a joy. If my 20-something self, who discovered David's
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