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How I adore David Cross...in honour of his new release (and acknowledging that he isn't music), what kind of music do people who like Mr. Cross (or Mr. Show for that matter) tend to enjoy? Just out of curiosity...

cybele, Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

dud

chaki (chaki), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Superchunk's "Watery Hands" video.

paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

chaki--I'm not going to deny you your opinion by any means...but could you explain why you poo poo?

cybele, Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

he doesnt make me laugh. i said in another thread he's one of those guys like drew carrey that has really funny friends but isnt funny himself. even the barbershop quartet episode of newsradio wasnt very good. also hes like a trendy face to throw into a sitcom now to make them seem hip. "david cross is on will and grace this week! this show is so cutting edge!"

chaki (chaki), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

jesus christ. watch mr. show, chaki. you people that don't 'get' the funniest man of his generation...

he's probably also not very funny on NBC sitcoms because, you know, they fucking blow.

your null fame (yournullfame), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought he was totally out of place when he played violin with KC back in the 70's. Come to think of it, with the exception of the venal leader, that entire band blew.

bahtology, Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked the Mr. Show that turned that joke about the traveling salesman, who's car breaks down, and he goes to the farmhouse, and the farmer let's him stay in the barn, but tells him not to stick his dick in any of the 3 holes in the wall, and so on and so forth, and turn it into an hour long musical.

Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

watch mr. show, chaki. you people that don't 'get' the funniest man of his generation...

Me, I've watched Mr. Show. He can be intermittently funny, but while I'm not as absolute as Chaki on the matter, I incline that way.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

chaki--download some stuff from "Shut up you fucking baby." You will laugh.

cybele, Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Me, I've watched Mr. Show. He can be intermittently funny, but while I'm not as absolute as Chaki on the matter, I incline that way. "

Yeah, I feel the same way about both Mr. Show and the album. And generally the funny stuff isn't worth sifting through the unfunny.

Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

As a standup, he spends way too much time on his soapbox.

paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Bob Odenkirk better.

James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 30 November 2002 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

dude ive seen every episode of mr show.

chaki (chaki), Saturday, 30 November 2002 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i weep.

your null fame (yournullfame), Saturday, 30 November 2002 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

im all about the kids n the hall and $240 worth of pudding n shit.

chaki (chaki), Saturday, 30 November 2002 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i feel you.

your null fame (yournullfame), Saturday, 30 November 2002 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The David Cross record is kind of ass. Lots of easy targets and factual errors, which is really bad for left wing political comedy. Why make the right's job easy? Mr Show is funny. The episode of Newsradio where he's Mr James' creepy magician nephew is also funny, but not as funny as the Chuck D episode--is there a Newsradio thread around here that I can crash?

adam (adam), Saturday, 30 November 2002 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't hate fun but I'm with chaki, Colin, Ned, etc.

Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 30 November 2002 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

KITH $250 lbs of pudding < David Cross' "dropping pudding cups on Afghani minefields" bit.

Yes John Ashcroft is an easy target but my god, the image of him glomming onto the lady Justice statue's titty is golden.

SQUAGELS!

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 30 November 2002 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus fuck did I mangle that KITH pudding thing. Eh, I don't care.

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 30 November 2002 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Weren't Barry and Levon from The State?

Awwww yeah...

paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 30 November 2002 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

indie rock comedians = dud

Al (sitcom), Saturday, 30 November 2002 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I dig him, cuz he's all sardonic and fascinated with bullshit LIKE ME! The album's a riot, though kinda mean I'll admit (not that it bothers me). Mr. Show is indeed the sweet shit, and I can't think of a better sketch comedy show (I plead ignorance too most Monty Python but what little I've seen doesn't make me worry I'm wrong). You could take the indie rock out this comedian though, I wouldn't mind. The footage of him hobknobbin' with Isaac Brock worries me, as does his supposed certainty that GBV is like, better cuz they don't try or something.

No music I like immediately strikes the some chord David Cross does, except maybe Rocket From The Crypt. Their album also sounds like someone havin' a blast despite (and possibly because of) the bullshit that surrounds them.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 2 December 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

*befuddled* Cross and the almighty Rocket...man, I can't imagine it! You've hurt my head there. ;-)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 December 2002 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

not an easy stretch. basically they're one of the few bands that sound at times like their saying "can you BELIEVE that DUMB SHIT!" in incredulousness. Also I like both. um yeah, see...uhh....THIS BIRD'S GONNA FLY! (leaps out window)

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 2 December 2002 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Beautiful. :-)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 December 2002 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob is much funnier than David in sketches. David's stand-up is much funnier than Bob's. Shut Up You Fucking Baby is ok, and the last HBO special sucked, but he started out with a superb collection of bits. Some of the stuff he was touring - which became Shut Up You Fucking Baby - was so much funnier, less topical.

Chris Ott, Monday, 2 December 2002 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I downloaded his stand-up routine and he was a little better then average. No way he's the funniest man of the generation. That goes to Zach Gelafanakis (sp?). Late World With Zach was the single best thing EVER.

David Allen, Monday, 2 December 2002 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

zach galafanakis? are you fucking kidding? that guy couldn't find funny if it was stapled to his nose, which it most definitely is not. that show was put out of our goddamn misery, and i thank VH1 for replacing it with terrible music-themed movies.

your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm interested in these factual errors...

cybele, Monday, 2 December 2002 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The first CD of Shut Up, You Fucking Baby! is pretty funny. Disc 2 contains all the political stuff about Bush and Ashcroft and the Catholic Church and the Bible and it largely ranges from boring to embarrassing. David's much funnier when he stays away from the political/social commentary and sticks to skewering pop-culture tropes. Mr. Show's "Altered State of Druggachusetts" is one of the finest five minutes of sketch comedy in the past ten years.

Nick Mirov (nick), Monday, 2 December 2002 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Disc 2 contains all the political stuff about Bush and Ashcroft and the Catholic Church and the Bible and it largely ranges from boring to embarrassing.

B-b-but SQUAGELS! And art-fucking!

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

dirty titty! dirty sexy beautiful fuck! pornography!

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

CHUCK D ON NEWSRADIO. Why haven't I seen this??

Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Couldn't help laughing to myself on seeing this thread - David Cross ? Bugger my ignorance, but to me he's none but the bearded trad-number-nine striker of Coventry, West Ham and Man City vintage circa late 70s/early 80s.

Darren, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I like political humor but I found his new album a little tired. It would've been more interesting if there had been even one heckler, or anyone in the crowd who got pissed off at him. Instead, he just sounds like an angry little man.

Also, his rants are better than his punchlines.

On the other hand, two hours is a long time to try to be funny.

As for music David Cross likes: does anyone remember the Acoustic Vaudeville tour (or whatever it was called) where he opened for Aimee Mann and Michael Penn? A friend of mine saw it and loved it - apparently, Cross also introduced the songs for them. He's pals with a whole bunch of those people - Jon Brion, whose girlfriend does the "Hey everybody, it's Bob and Dave thing!" and was in Punch Drunk Love, and Brion did the music for PDL and produced Aimee Mann, and they all probably have picnics together.

Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hey everybody, it's Bob and Dave thing!"

BEST TYPO EVER.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you serious? Jon Brion is dating Mary Lynn Rajskub? That's fucking awesome.

Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

BEST TYPO EVER.

Awww, yeah, sorry about that. Once in a while I make a Freudian penis.

Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

zach galafanakis? are you fucking kidding? that guy couldn't find funny if it was stapled to his nose, which it most definitely is not. that show was put out of our goddamn misery, and i thank VH1 for replacing it with terrible music-themed movies.

Actually, he was fired for saying on-air, "Im on a station, that thinks Creed is cool"

David Allen, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

He's pals with a whole bunch of those people

...such as Yo La Tengo - appears with Bob in the "Sugarcube" video .. also, he opened for them on Tueday's Hannukah show..

dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah and he kind of sucked. actually he was about half-funny (and that's generous). but who gets heckled instead? surprise guest david byrne! crazy.

catherine, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of easy targets and factual errors

I'm guessing the "easy targets" on disc 2 probably landed him in an FBI - er, I mean DHS file somewheres. And he came clean on the errors in the liner notes.

It would've been more interesting if there had been even one heckler, or anyone in the crowd who got pissed off at him.

You didn't check out Disc 1's bonus video, did you?

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 5 December 2002 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Awww, yeah, sorry about that. Once in a while I make a Freudian penis.

HAHA! Chris, that's one of the best and funniest things I've ever read on ILM in, like, ages! (I'm being serious)

donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 5 December 2002 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't know that Bob actually did stand up. What is it like? I think Mr. Show is great, but agree with the majority that Cross on his own isn't as funny.

Daron Gardner (Daron Gardner), Monday, 9 December 2002 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't heard this cd at all, but based on these comments, I keep imagining David Cross turning into his performance artist character from the Mr. Show sketch about the designing of the American flag: "You shit on us, well now I...shit...on you!"

Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 9 December 2002 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, that character reaffirms the difference between genuine america haters and David Cross's own stand up, which is the cynicsm that brews from sticking to one's ideals. It is a bit grumpy, but it is nowhere as humorlessly or thoughtlessly cliched as...damn...what was that character's name? Scooter? Also, no ski cap. He did grow the goatee though.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 9 December 2002 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
"Shut up, you fucking baby" is pretty good, and in the past he's used Ennio Morricone's "Moses the Lawgiver", as background for a part of his standup. Thus CLASSIC. His folk singer alias Ainsley McTree is also terrible funny, if you find skull-fucking funny, which some people don't.

kinski (kinski), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

terrib-ly funny - yes, terrible to some

kinski (kinski), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Is John Mayer really funnier than David Cross?

this thread was weird.

scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

David Cross as Tobias Funke on Arrested Development = GENIUS.

Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

David Michael Cross - Cold War EP...... now you're talkin'

nick.K (nick.K), Monday, 22 December 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

David Cross as Tobias Funke on Arrested Development = GENIUS.

Arrested Development without Cross last night=Another great episode. The 3 best episodes have been the ones he's not in. Hmmm...

As for David Cross and "indie rock", there's an old feature in Matador's promo rag where Franklin Bruno plays indie songs and the Mr. Show guys comment. WARNING: A bit of talk aboot Momus.

Vic Funk, Monday, 22 December 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Something I brought up in the other thread:

David Cross dropping the n-bomb at a Howard Dean fundraiser: classic or dud?

Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, I missed Arrested Development again last night. At this point, I'm hoping they release it on DVD quickly, becuase you know it's going to be canceled real soon. It's just too good to last.

Dropping the "n-bomb" at a Howard Dean fundraiser sounds like a pretty lousy idea. Did this really happen?

Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Vic, I would say that Arrested Development is just plain great, with or without Tobias. Tobias is pretty great though.

My favorite is Gob.

Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

it got the all clear to continue to the end of season 1. I don't see it lasting 2 though.

kinski (kinski), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the "n bomb"? what New Model Army?

Oh you mean n1gg3r? Yes, he does that quite often, usually at the end of his shows when the audience least expect.

kinski (kinski), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

If the show continues to get good buzz and awards nominations, it may get a few stays of execution, because realistically, there's not much better that Fox could do with its timeslot (which is highly competitive - it's up against Alias, HBO's Sunday night, Law & Order, and Cold Case), so it may benefit from that.

My guess: At some point in the next season, it'll get stuck with a worse timeslot, and then it will eventually get cancelled. But then again, the cult needs time to grow, and this time next year it could be a much more popular show.

Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

He's pals with a whole bunch of those people - Jon Brion, whose girlfriend does the "Hey everybody, it's Bob and Dave thing!" and was in Punch Drunk Love, and Brion did the music for PDL and produced Aimee Mann, and they all probably have picnics together.

It might be of interest to this thread that regardless of who is dating Mary Lynn Rajskub now, that David Cross was dating her when she was on Mr. Show, which is why she suddenly stopped being on Mr. Show. You know, since everyone's pointing fingers at David for not having his facts straight...

TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

There's an Arrested Development thread on ILE by the way.

NA (Nick A.), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Dropping the "n-bomb" at a Howard Dean fundraiser sounds like a pretty lousy idea. Did this really happen?

He was one of several off-color comics that enraged Dean's audience and Dean himself, who, of course, needs to clean up a little now that he's the Democratic frontrunner. There are several stories about it online, although none of them really went into detail about Cross' exact jokes.

Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I feel the same way about both Mr. Show and the album. And generally the funny stuff isn't worth sifting through the unfunny.

Oh hey, I really disagree with this now. I still don't like the standup album. But Seasons 2 and 4 of Mr. Show are perfect.

Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Shut Up You Fucking Baby was terrible. The only funny bit was the redneck voices.

His first/only? HBO special was terrible too. He's got terrible timing, stutters and mutters too much, and then kind of randomly yells. Absolute dud.

I finally saw Chris Rock's "Bigger and Blacker" special all the way through, everything Cross tries to be (ie edgy and funny), but done right.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

God, if you think Chris Rock is funnier than Cross, that says it all right there. Perhaps we load your comedy on a big spoon.

Also, SUYFB isn't great. Especially if you saw him live on that tour.

TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

A better one would be Bill Hicks (who was even better than Rock). He was outlandish and angry, yet really fucking funny.

Cross isn't making jokes, though (nor being funny) - he's just being hateful and horribly misanthropic. Getting cheap laughs out of stereotypes and funny voices and shouting. It's k-lame.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris Rock has too much of the huckster in him. He likes to flirt with being all edgy and political or whatever, then backs off and makes some stupid "black people are like THIS, white people are like THIS" (eg, tired, 4th-generation Richard Pryor schtick) or does a phone commercial.

He's got some funny lines though. Horrible taste in film roles.

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 December 2003 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

And Chris Rock isn't about stereotypes and shouting? Please.

TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

David Cross makes me laugh. Chris Rock doesn't. This has nothing to do with my being a skinny white guy with glasses, probably.

Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

David Cross >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bill Hicks

Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 25 December 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Rock stereotypes and shouts (and isn't very funny when only shouting). But look at who he's making fun of - his race and himself. David Cross only attacks other - there aren't too many jokes at the expense of short, balding white hipsters.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 25 December 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Dropping the "n-bomb" at a Howard Dean fundraiser sounds like a pretty lousy idea. Did this really happen?

-- Salmon Pink (salmon_pin...), December 22nd, 2003.


Jesus Christ, we're all adults here. The word is "nigger."

But in terms of the fact that he used the word, it's context. If he used it in the same way he used it on the CD, well that was mildly funny, kind of forced. And trying a little too hard to be offensive. If he used it matter-of-factly, and it wasn't the punchline to a joke, fine, it's a real word and he should be able to use it.

David Allen, Thursday, 25 December 2003 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Worst Chris Rock joke - the "I wanna be in the KKK!" thing. Not so bad in and of itself, but I've heard it used so many times by white people as justification for their own racism/racist comments.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 25 December 2003 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, between Chris Rock and David Cross, that's a toss up. Both are excellent performers, very conversational delivery, but both have material that teeters between brilliant and weak. Rock's kind of gotten softer over time, lost some anger, wandered into tired relationship stuff, but that stills puts him on top of most other comics. I think the difference is, Rock is willing to and does, challenge his audience -- who are mostly black -- while Cross may be offensive, but not really, considering his audience -- mostly hipsters.

David Allen, Thursday, 25 December 2003 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard Janine Garofalo dropped some pretty raunchy stuff herself at the event. Won't those Democrats ever learn not to comport w/ those Valueless Liberal Hollywood types?

Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 25 December 2003 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

David Cross >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bill Hicks

bill hicks was a republican?

el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 25 December 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

But in terms of the fact that he used the word, it's context. If he used it in the same way he used it on the CD, well that was mildly funny, kind of forced. And trying a little too hard to be offensive. If he used it matter-of-factly, and it wasn't the punchline to a joke, fine, it's a real word and he should be able to use it.

Re: Cross at the Howard Dean Fundraiser:

Not to overexplain this but for the people who don't follow Dean's campaign, this was funny because for Cross to use that material was a genuinely disruptive act - and those ain't easy to come by these days (unlike Lenny Bruce's time, and congrats Lenny on finally getting a pardon - RIP).

Dean was an edgy, long-shot candidate who has become the frontrunner in the Democratic race, and he's currently trying to transition his outsider appeal into mainstream viability (the great American success story, as it were). He's likely to be the Democratic nominee in '04 who'll get to lose to President Bush next November. But one of his weaknesses is a perceived lack of support or interest in the African-American community.

So you have to imagine the look on Dean's face when this "edgy, hipster" white geek comic starts throwing around racial slurs at his fundraiser, in front of the national media. Like, there's no context that makes that viable. I laughed and laughed.

Chris D, Thursday, 25 December 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree. It may be a little counterproductive for him to try and be disruptive at the fundraiser of someone whom I'm assuming he supports. But I think he was being himself and Dean shouldve known what he was getting into.

David Allen, Thursday, 25 December 2003 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Dean was an edgy, long-shot candidate[...]

sorry, when was this? the guy's about 'edgy' as a plastic coated baby spoon. kucinich is all edge.

el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 26 December 2003 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hippies are not and cannot be edgy.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 26 December 2003 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I met one who was kinda on edge once. I think it was the pot what did it.

nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 26 December 2003 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

kucinich isn't a hippie, he's an elf.

el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 26 December 2003 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Kucinich looks like one of those little kids with that disease that makes them age super-fast.

Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 26 December 2003 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...
NED YOU BASTARD THESE THREADS ARE ABOUT DAVID CROSS - THESE ARE NOT RUNNING COMMENTARIES ON HIS NEWEST CD

dean!dean!dean (deangulberry), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...
I met one who was kinda on edge once. I think it was the pot what did it.

You can't be edgy on pot. You can be parinoid...not edgy.

Dakian, Thursday, 13 January 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

when cross is talking about growing up a jew in roswell, georgia its really funny. sorry, but i think he be funny.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 13 January 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

I DON'T KNOW, FAGGET

American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Thursday, 13 January 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

I used to think Cross was a shitty standup, but this is actually really funny! It's on netflix watch instantly right now.

http://www.mbvmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/david-cross-bigger-blackerer.jpg

Darin, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

I have had two things I made fun of *all the time* that David Cross later came out w/stand up routines about: misuse of the word "literally," and the movie title "My Ass Is Haunted." Now I feel like I can't joke about either.

Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Saturday, 4 December 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Jesus Christ, we're all adults here. The word is "nigger."

But in terms of the fact that he used the word, it's context. If he used it in the same way he used it on the CD, well that was mildly funny, kind of forced. And trying a little too hard to be offensive. If he used it matter-of-factly, and it wasn't the punchline to a joke, fine, it's a real word and he should be able to use it.

― David Allen, Thursday, December 25, 2003 4:36 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

online hardman, Monday, 9 June 2014 17:01 (eleven years ago)

David Cross later came out w/stand up routines about.... the movie title "My Ass Is Haunted."

I think about this bit sometimes and it kills me. Also the one where he talks about the porno movie "F*ck My Dirty Ass: The Movie."

'I know what you're thinking - how did they ever turn that book into a movie?! I remember seeing the musical of it at the Mark Taper Forum.' (paraphrased from memory; probably badly)

Walter Galt, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 10:45 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

new live film is pretty good, more of the same

Οὖτις, Thursday, 25 August 2016 20:14 (nine years ago)

his standup does seem limited by his preference for topicality over joeks

Οὖτις, Thursday, 25 August 2016 20:17 (nine years ago)

that would seem to be a liability for a comedian

Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 25 August 2016 20:26 (nine years ago)


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