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David Cross is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television producer. Cross is best known for his stand-up performances, the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995–1998), his role as Ian Hawke in the first three Alvin and the Chipmunks movies, and his role as Tobias Fünke in the Fox/Netflix sitcom Arrested Development. He has been described as "one of the defini…
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culture · American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1964) · screenwriter · voice actor · comedian · film director · television presenter · singer · film producer · television producer · stage actor · journalist · also David Cross, Cross
Born 4 April 1964 · Q362332
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s Flying Circus, Lou Costello, Steven Wright, Richard Pryor, and Lenny Bruce. Controversies In October 2005, Cross was sued by Nashville club manager Thomas Weber, who accused Cross of supposedly taping him without permission for Shut Up You Fucking Baby and Let America Laugh in apparent violation of Weber
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“You’ve got these mega multinational corporations saying it’s cheaper for us to just dump these shows. We crunched the numbers and we’d only make £42,000 and that’s not enough – we need to make millions.”
The Guardian: Alleged victim tells Alan Jones’s barrister he was ‘groomed for 10 years’ and to ‘get real’ during combative cross-examination
Published video “Fall tour on-sale now. ALL NEW MATERIAL. Comment LIVE for a link or head to my website”.
Published video “Fall tour on-sale now. ALL NEW MATERIAL. head to my website”.
Released album “The End of the Beginning of the End”.
Published video “Stroke! “The End of the Beginning of the End” Available now from @800pgm & @YMHStudios”.
Published video “March 16, 2026”.
Published video “totally feasting”.
Published video “easy access”.
Published video “It’s $19,000”.
Published video “I’m so sorry!”.
Published video “and scene”.
Published video “Not the same”.
Released album “The Other Horizon”.
Cross guest starred as Nolan Hurst, in the TV series Elsbeth, episode titled Doll Day Afternoon on CBS
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Released album “Worst Daddy in the World”.
Released album “I'm from the Future”.
Cross featured on a video produced by the Gravel Institute, a progressive think tank
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Cross has a post-credit scene in which he interrupts the group's theater performance to poke fun at the commercial failure of their second album, Paul's Boutique
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Released album “Oh, Come On”.
Tamblyn announced that she and Cross had a daughter
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Released album “...America...Great...”.
Cross praised Senator Bernie Sanders and said he admired Sanders "way before he ran for President"
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Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler revealed that Cross was the first investor in the crowdfunding platform
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Released album “Hollywood Said No!: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, and Abandoned Darlings From the Creators of 'Mr. Show'”.
Returned, making an appearance in an episode of Frank's radio show, entitled "A Conversation"
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Released album “Bigger and Blackerer”.
His first comedy special in six years, Bigger and Blackerer, was streamed on Epix HD
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Released album “I Drink for a Reason”.
Cross released his first book I Drink for a Reason
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Strickler included Cross among the "friends and family" who first financed Kickstarter in 2006.
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Contributed to the UNICEF benefit song "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en
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“s Flying Circus, Lou Costello, Steven Wright, Richard Pryor, and Lenny Bruce. Controversies In October 2005, Cross was sued by Nashville club manager Thomas Weber, who accused Cross of supposedly taping him without permission for Shut Up You Fucking Baby and Let America Laugh in apparent violation of Weber”
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Released album “Mr. Show with Bob and David”.
Released album “It’s Not Funny”.
Cross provided voices for a Marine in Halo 2 and a store clerk named "Zero" in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Released his first tour film, Let America Laugh, and was named No
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Released album “Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!”.
Performed a one-hour comedy special, The Pride Is Back, on HBO
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And worked with Frank on radio shows for KCRW's Unfictional: "A Conversation" (2013) and "Downfall" (2015)
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Combined to become "The OJ Chronicles"), where Cross appears as OJ's valet
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Played Newton, an employee of the NYC Morgue in Men in Black, and reprised the character, now as an owner of a video rental store, in Men in Black II in 2002
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And again in 1999, Cross was a guest voice actor on Joe Frank's radio show, featured in the episodes "The Last Run", "A Hearing", "The O
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for The Ben Stiller Show (1993).
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Won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for his work on The Ben Stiller Show
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A new comedy scene began to emerge at the comedy club chain Catch a Rising Star
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Studied at North Atlanta High School (1982).
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Born 1964-04-04.
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