These days, David Sedaris is the think­ing per­son­’s favorite fun­ny man. In the past, we have fea­tured his live read­ings of com­ic mate­r­i­al from When You are Engulfed in Flames. (See “Relat­ed Con­tent” below.) Today, we’re high­light­ing some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. On August 19th, Sedaris appeared as a guest DJ on KCRW, a radio sta­tion in Los Ange­les, and spun his favorite old records. You can lis­ten with the play­er below or here. Mean­while, if you want to hear more of KCR­W’s Guest DJ Project (which has fea­tured David Lynch, Jim­my Wales, and oth­er cul­tur­al icons), you can get the pod­cast here:  iTunes — Feed — Web Site.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Sedaris Reads “Solu­tion to Saturday’s Puz­zle”

David Sedaris Reads “Of Mice and Men”

A lit­tle piece of clas­sic Amer­i­cana TV. We take you back to the 1950s and Sid Cae­sar’s com­ic work. It’s hard to imag­ine some­one work­ing Beethoven’s 5th into com­ic mate­r­i­al, but Cae­sar did it. In the mean­time, if you want some­thing a lit­tle more seri­ous, I give you this rare footage of Her­bert von Kara­jan con­duct­ing the same sym­pho­ny in 1966. An old gem. Last­ly, get lots of free clas­si­cal music from our Music Pod­cast Col­lec­tion.