Funny things just seem to happen to him and his satellite Sedarises, and he has made his family the main characters of a decadeslong, clearly very profitable, and reliably amusing page-and-stage act. David writes family comedies, sketch dispatches from the Sedaris clan (his grouchy Greek father and late mother, his clown car of sisters and brother) with himself at the center as nebbish-raconteur. Among David Sedaris’s devoted fans, the ones who read his pieces in The New Yorker and make his books best sellers and flocked to the 50-city live tours he did each year before the pandemic paused them, he’s just Hugh - the way Sedaris’s sister Amy (comedian, crafter, all-time-great Letterman guest) is just Amy. Photo: Benedict Evans/Copyright Benedict EvansĪt the door of a dignified apartment on the Upper East Side: Hugh.
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