Reviewed By: Emanuel Caros

Although more recently known for playing the villain in the Alvin and the Chipmunks films, David Cross is one of the godfathers of alt comedy responsible for the HBO favorite Mr. Show, an analyst and therapist (analrapist) on the perfection that was Arrested Development,  and numerous stand-up albums.  At first listen, most of Cross' material would offend even some of the most open-minded people, but his risqué rhetoric goes deeper than just shock value.  It quickly becomes obvious that Cross is highly intelligent and that he refuses to take the hacky "what's up with senators these days?" approach to political humor.  He makes his point by introducing the audience to the ironies of the world; he's the socially-conscious Sarah Silverman.  

On Bigger and Blackerer Cross doesn't deviate from that approach.  But, while the albums still consists of his usual republican/religion bashing, the jokes are relevant to current issues (the health care bill) and original takes on those issues that you won't get from Bill Maher.  In the few instances that he's not calling out Scientology or making fun of Orthodox Jew babies, he still delivers hilarious bits.  The first track starts with the obligatory MC intro, but fluidly segues into song, and then into a joke regarding an under-represented group in comedy: Cosmonauts.  

David Cross has been making people laugh in so many different ways for so many years.  He continues to do so on his new stand up dvd and further cements himself as one of the best, and most under-appreciated, stand-up comics ever.


9/10