96 - David Cross (1 of 2)
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2014
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The star of "Arrested Development", "Mr Show" and "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret", David Cross is also a phenomenal stand-up, whose work howls at the stupidity and hypocrisy around him. In part one of this interview he talks about his earliest material and how he overcame the fear of bombing onstage, and speaks very frankly about the cycle of anger and depression that could grip him in his less creative moments...
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| 0:18.0 | Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 5-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon. |
| 0:21.2 | So go and find Adam Bloom's book, Repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not |
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| 0:53.0 | This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian pod-poss. |
| 1:07.0 | This is the Comedians-Comedian Pod- Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart. podcast. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith, and today I'm talking to a brilliant comic and comedy actor David Cross. Now the location for this particular interview fell through sadly at the last minute. |
| 1:25.0 | So very, very many thanks to the Nell Gwyn pub in Soho, who kindly housed us in their upstairs room. |
| 1:30.0 | That is their washing machine that you can hear in the background of his |
| 1:33.3 | interview the sound quality is not as perfect as I'd have liked but it's still |
| 1:36.8 | totally doable and so this is the first half David was kind enough to talk to me for |
| 1:40.8 | two hours and we covered a lot of stuff his seminal sketch |
| 1:44.0 | double act mister show his role of course of Tobias in arrested development and |
| 1:48.5 | lots more besides but in this episode we focus mainly on his stand-up now not everyone in the UK knows David is a stand-up comedian, |
| 1:55.2 | but he's got several gigs concerts, you know albums you can download on iTunes |
| 1:59.3 | as well as two specials that you can find on YouTube which I only came to very recently |
| 2:03.8 | whilst specifically researching him. |
| 2:05.3 | Please look him up. |
| 2:06.3 | He's an incredibly exciting comedian. |
| 2:08.6 | David is one of the three or four comics who is perpetually on my iPod and who gets routinely shuffled into my daily life, |
| 2:15.2 | my long drives and my aeroplane time. |
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