In June, with three days’ notice, David Sedaris was summoned to the Vatican to meet the Pope

 Excerpt from The New Yorker Daily

The Hem of His Garment I thought that the e-mailed invitation was spam. “Nice try, Russia,” I said to my laptop screen. But the Pope really did want to meet with comics and humorists. Illustration by Mikel Jaso; Source photographs from Getty In June, with three days’ notice, David Sedaris was summoned to the Vatican to meet the Pope—along with Stephen Colbert, Tig Notaro, Whoopi Goldberg, and a hundred or so other notable names. The visit is not what he’d imagined it would be, but he turns the trip around with an outing, accompanied by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, to a centuries-old, bespoke tailoring business that’s been dressing the Pope and his associates for generations. There he buys a black cassock—“It takes ten pounds off!”—complete with a Roman collar and two fascias. The only remaining question? What to wear underneath. Read the story Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today »