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DVD David Cross - Let America Laugh
Let America Laugh is an intermittently entertaining, fly-on-the-wall DVD sidebar to David Cross's live comedy CD from Sub Pop, Shut Up, You F**king Baby! Shot on a low-tech, digital camcorder, Let America Laugh captures the ups and downs (mostly downs) of Cross's 2002 tour of North American clubs. Notable sequences find the Mr. Show star jerking around a rude and uncooperative Nashville club owner, attending a wee-hours party at a Memphis video store (it looks exactly as one might imagine), surviving a double booking in Vancouver, and shooting fireworks from a Minneapolis playground. Much of this looks like concert-tour hell, but there are highlights, too: A stop at Experience Music Project in Seattle, a funny encounter with Cross's comic partner, Bob Odenkirk, in a Los Angeles store, and a relaxed, hometown show in Atlanta. There are bits and pieces of routines here, but this DVD is more travelogue than showcase. --Tom Keogh
this movie was kinda boring. Not enough of Cross' standup. Also when there was footage of his stand up, it wasnt that funny.
Mr. Show/David Cross Fan
I don't understand why there are so many mixed reviews on this DVD. I guess the people that gave this DVD a poor review don't understand David Cross' sense of humor. I bought this DVD on a whim (since it was a low price) well aware that it was not a concert DVD. It is, in fact, a tour-diary filmed by Lance Bangs (of Jackass fame). I thought this DVD was well worth my $13, and it's one of those I can watch again and again. I wouldn't recomend buying this DVD unless you REALLY understand Mr. Show and David Cross' humor. If you're a die-hard fan of both, I guarantee you'll love this.
Sad to say this lowered my opinion of David Cross.
Don't get me wrong--like a lot of you looking over this DVD, I like David Cross's stand-up comedy a lot and I've always enjoyed Mr. Show, too.
I think this documentary disappointed me so much because I found its overall effect neither very entertaining nor engaging (things I like about some behind-the-scenes documentaries), but instead rather formless and mean spirited.
While we do get a candid look at the exhausting realities of life on the road on a tour (I admit Cross does run into some impossible crowds and pain in the a** people), so much of this DVD seems designed to make other people--including *fans* of Cross--look stupid. For a comic who routinely (and hilariously) criticizes religious and political thinkers for their intolerance, Cross himself frequently comes across as a pretty intolerant and elitist guy.
It's just odd to me that Cross would take his tour out of comedy clubs (a neat idea) and into rock clubs, then get irate when crowds behave like they're at a rock show. Director Lance Bangs had the opportunity to: (1) widen our understanding of what it's like to be on the road and (2) ask some interesting questions (how do you make people laugh? how do you deal with the exhaustion, the disappointments, of being a performer?).
Instead he just delivers a documentary full of easy cheap shots and unenlightening minutiae. Bangs has done some good work in the past with musicians; I don't know what happened here.
Season 4 of HBO's Mr. Show is particularly strong, with a number of original ideas and exceptionally funny sketches scattered over all 10 episodes. Stars Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are in good form from the season premiere's opening bit about medical marijuana--specifically, Cross's prescription to help him with the anxiety of working with Odenkirk. The duo also work a comic rivalry theme in a dueling bloopers sketch that includes "embarrassing" footage of Odenkirk as a male prostitute and Cross as a wannabe rock star.
But the best material is positively surreal, such as a Jerry Springer-like talk show taking place on a life raft, and a variation on The Paper Chase in which a curmudgeonly law professor (Michael McKean), suddenly called away from class after a... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): David Cross (II) - Bob Odenkirk Director(s): Stacy Peralta - Keith Truesdell - John Moffitt - Jonathan Dayton - Peyton Reed DVD Release Date: Released the 21 September 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, creators and stars of the HBO comedy sketch series Mr. Show, bravely stretch one of that program's premises and characters into a generally successful, feature-length film in Run Ronnie Run! Cross plays Ronnie Dobbs, a trailer-park nitwit whose pranks find him routinely chased by small-town police. When an L.A. television producer (Odenkirk) discovers Ronnie is a favorite and frequent felon on a reality TV show, he signs Dobbs to his own series (Ronnie Dobbs Gets Arrested!) and re-settles him in Beverly Hills. Unprepared for fame, money, and power, Ronnie tries reinventing his life with mixed results. Much of Run Ronnie Run! is funny, though Cross--always a strong performer--is typically better than the material. The film works... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): David Cross (II) Director(s): Troy Miller DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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