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David Sedaris sings the Oscar Mayer song - as Billie Holiday

By Kevin Roderick | May 1, 2013 11:48 PM

billie-holiday-thumb.jpgLast weekend, "This American Life" re-aired a classic episode from 1998 titled Music Lessons. In front of a live audience in San Francisco, David Sedaris sings the Oscar Mayer advertising ditty in the voice of Billie Holiday — and luckily someone has harvested just that 0:51 fragment and put it on YouTube.


Sedaris bonus: He reads from "50 Shades of Grey."


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