That’s how David Sedaris answered when an audience member asked him his favorite place to people watch.

Last night I was able to enter a world of the cleverly crafted David Sedaris where his self demeaning attitude makes you laugh but also think about implications. He read in Columbus last night in the Palace Theater to a sold out crowd.

He began the reading last night with a fable between a sheep and a crow. I was a little worried with the first story. I watched him on David Letterman reading one of his fables and I wasn’t very impressed. I was pleasantly surprised and disgusted at the same time. From the idea of a crow discussing birthing techniques with a sheep to the unfortunate encounter when the sheep starts to meditate. The audience was in hysterics with his stories and commentary as it continued throughout the evening.

In his second reading he was able to take you from skeleton shopping to ending up in a waiting room in only his under pants. The perfect dead pan comedic timing of asking friends if they saw anything fucked up while in the emergency room to the realization that a full blown skeleton is the better christmas gift (even if a baby skeleton could fit in a shoe box) kept the audience on its toes.

He ended his readings with a picturesque older ralph lauren couple sitting next to him on a flight from Denver to La Gaurdia. To a Cabey in NYC asking about his sexual proclivities.

“Can you believe this shit?”

“Well I’m not going to eat this shit!”

“Do you like to fuckey fuck David?”

“Do you like the dick David?”

I admit, it’s not the most clever introspective Sedaris that I am used to reading, but it made the audience cry in laughter. As we were all busy wiping our eyes he was cleverly weaving a slight social commentary into his story with the NYC cabbie. Fancy sport coats don’t mean a damn thing in being able to relate to people, it’s how often we’re able to Fuckey fuck that truly brings us all down to the same level.

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