Gay Humorist on Marriage: 'I Wanted It to Be Ours to Spit On'

Tim Graham
September 27th, 2015 8:37 AM

Gay humorist David Sedaris, who became famous for his “Crumpet the Elf’ Christmas-bashing on NPR and then his contributions to the NPR show This American Life, has a new essay in The New Yorker that ably illustrates the gay-lefty ambivalence about marriage: they want “gay marriage” at the same time they have contempt for it as unfashionably conventional.  "I was all for the struggle, mainly…

 

NPR's Happy Christmas Elf: 'I'm Going to Have You Killed

Tim Graham
December 24th, 2011 9:46 AM
National Public Radio was replaying "holiday favorites" on Friday's Morning Edition -- to be specific, allowing humorist David Sedaris offer a very nasty take on Christmas as he played "Crumpet the Elf" at Macy's. In a seven-minute reading from his "Santaland Diaries," there's some rather shocking attempts at humor that aren't exactly warm and fuzzy. Sedaris's elf shouted at a woman for…