In an interview on Comedy

Your next book is David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day.

He is a very funny writer. As a stand-up comedian I feel I am a stronger performer than writer. Having done this for 12 years my writing has gotten stronger as well. But I have always been impressed by people who can make you laugh just with their writing – things where you can just read it and laugh. Because with performing you can make things funny by the way you perform them, but to write funny is a talent and Sedaris has got it.

I remember picking up this book, and I then started buying all his books because it is amazing how funny he makes these short stories about himself. He’s not a stand-up comedian or anything like that, but his stories are hilarious. One story that comes to mind is when he took a job one Christmas at Macy’s [the New York store] where he was a Christmas elf for Santa Claus. The way he tells the story is truly hilarious – I can’t do it justice, you just have to read it!

A bigger lesson to take from this book and Sedaris’s writing is how he sees the comedy in every situation. My whole life I have tried to see comedy in any circumstance. You read his stories and see the things that are happening to him. And if you view the world as glass half empty you might not see the comedy of it, but he does. I think that is an important thing to have in life.