Sound Portrait

He might have struggled with getting exactly what he wanted out of the interviewee. To get exactly what he wanted out of her he might of approached the interviewee with several different questions just to get the one that he wanted and to pull it all together he edited all of himself out of the live interview part. This is a good technique that I could use if I find myself in the same situation.

Sedaris

I have read/heard several things from Sedaris before so when I read the posting I automatically had his voice in my head. When I first read something of Sedaris' I could tell it was humorous, but after finding that first thing I read in video format it was much funnier. I think that when someone reads something without knowing anything about the author they have to use a certain amount of imagination in order to understand where the author is coming from and what they meant the writing to sound like. I suppose this is why they say reading is good for you. Sedaris' readings are a lot funnier when you can watch him read them because he uses his unique character(irony & sarcasm) to stress the certain points of the reading which make it very funny.