If you’ve ever wondered who will be the real victims of global warming, who is the weakest villain in all of fiction, why you should regularly check your shoes for rocks, why Barak Obama really decided to run for president, what brand of beer is the top choice of people who find beercans difficult to operate, or what product should just go ahead and adopt a disappointed rabbi as its logo, well David Cross has got some answers for you. The comedian known best for Mr. Show and portraying engagingly peculiar Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development recorded his third stand up album last year in Boston during his first stand up tour since 2004. Gleaned from a much longer performance that’s also been edited into a DVD and a TV special, this audio release begins with a lighthearted and portentous musical number that’s basically a giant pretense to tell an old joke about solar exploration. As a stand up, Cross has a well-developed style that mixes affable if occasionally meandering storytelling with biting pronouncements, incisive perspectives and cultural observations. His usual targets of the political right and organized religion get attention, as do junkies, drugs date rape, porn and failed practical jokes, but if the topics don’t surprise, the way Cross expounds upon them often does, sometimes for just a moment of shock and others with profound comprehension. He offers up equal opportunity comedy with high and low brow offerings given equal weight and any combination of words in play when he thinks they might just make listeners respond.

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