I’m going to make your Friday, right here, right now. Above, we have a clip of David Sedaris doing a dead-on Billie Holiday impression while singing the famous Oscar Mayer theme song. The clip is an outtake from a 1998 episode of This American Life where Sedaris talks about his childhood fantasy of singing commercial jingles in Holiday’s voice. You can catch the jingles around the 9:00 mark (listen here) … and again at the 17:45 mark. But I’d really encourage you to listen to the full tale from the very start (6:00). Day made?
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So baloney Blimey happy to have found you, lovely, as my life is full of divorce attorneys, court appearances and protective orders, one can only imagine the below basement level currently surrounding me life. You are a blast of fresh breath air snd and reminder that life can be good with a bit of humor judiciously sprinkled.
That clip is so NOT David Sedaris! The only place to hear him is on NPR, This American Life episode 104, 17 minutes in…