Someone who calls a book Lets Explore Diabetes With Owls has to be worth going to see. David Sedaris ‘played’ to a full house at the National Concert Hall last night. What does a writer do with a full house, we wondered, pre-show. Read? Stand-up? He read, mostly, from his New Yorker essays, to diary entries, to jokes he’s picked up on his travels. My favourite was a piece he wrote for radio and which he has not committed to paper because a lot of the humour depends on the pronunciation of words such as Latino and Nicaragua; you had to have been there! But if you weren’t lucky enough to get a ticket, my verdict is that Sedaris is just as funny on the page as off.