COMEDY: David Cross – The End of The Beginning of The End

Emmy Award winner and two-time Grammy Award nominee, David Cross is known as an inventive performer, writer, and producer on stage and screen.  

In February, David made his Broadway debut in the comedic play, All In: Comedy About Love By Simon Rich, alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda, Annaleigh Ashford and Tim Meadows.

Adding to his long list of memorable TV and film characters, David joined the cast of the Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy, as Sy Grossman for the fourth and final season.

David’s eighth stand-up special, David Cross: Worst Daddy in the World, is available on the 800 Pound Gorilla YouTube channel.

David hosts the podcast, Senses Working Overtime with David Cross, produced by Headgum and available every Thursday on all audio platforms with video available on David’s YouTube channel.

Recently, David was seen in the Julia Louis-Dreyfus film, You Hurt My Feelings, and the FX series, Justified: City Primeval.  In 2021, he starred in the National Geographic series, Genius: Aretha, portraying famed music producer, Jerry Wexler opposite Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin; as well as making guest appearances in the critically-acclaimed HBO Max miniseries, Station Eleven and the HBO Max film, 8-Bit Christmas.

David was nominated for two Grammy Awards for the albums, …America…Great, and Shut Up You F***ing Baby, and his comedy special, David Cross: The Pride is Back, was named one of the 25 best stand-up comedy specials and concert films of all time by Rolling Stone in July 2015.

David’s groundbreaking TV credits include Arrested Development, Goliath, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Mr. Show with Bob and David, Bliss, and The Ben Stiller Show.

David has collaborated on numerous film and video projects with several bands including The Beastie Boys, The Black Keys, The Strokes, Superchunk, and Yo La Tengo.

David released the indie film Hits, which he wrote and directed  He has appeared in numerous films including Steven Spielberg’s, The Post, alonside Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, Kill Your Darlings, It’s a Disaster, Year One, Waiting for Guffman, Men in Black and Men in Black II, Ghost World, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pitch Perfect 2, I’m Not There, and he provided his vocal talents for several animated films, including Megamind, the Kung Fu Panda franchise and Curious George.