Actor and comedian David Cross visits WIRED to answer his most searched questions from Google. Does David Cross still do standup comedy? Who does he play in 'The Umbrella Academy?' How long has he been best friends with Bob Odenkirk? Does he write music? Does David Cross have a podcast? David answers these questions and plenty more on the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.David is touring theaters across North America with his new show, David Cross: The End Of The Beginning Of The End. For full tour dates and link to tickets visit https://officialdavidcross.com/pages/appearancesDavid co-stars in the final season of The Umbrella Academy premiering August 8 on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80186863David hosts the podcastSenses Working Overtime With David Cross-https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialDavidCross/videosWatch Davids new special,David Cross: Worst Daddy In The World, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnw65BBrlY4Director: Justin WolfsonDirector of Photography: Jack BelisleEditor: Matthew ColbyTalent: David CrossLine Producer: Joseph BuscemiAssociate Producer: Brandon WhiteProduction Manager: Peter BrunetteProduction Coordinator: Rhyan LarkTalent Booker: Mica Medoff; Paige GarbariniCamera Operator: Caleb WeissSound Mixer: Sean PaulsenProduction Assistant: Sonia ButtPost Production Supervisor: Christian OlguinPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Doug LarsenAdditional Editor: Jason MaliziaAssistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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00:00Hi everybody, this is David Cross. This is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
00:10Does David Cross? Occasionally, if I'm really drunk and not self-aware,
00:17then I can occasionally, but I'll clean it up.
00:22Here we go. Does David Cross have a podcast? Yes, he does. It's called
00:28Sense is Working Overtime. It's great. I actually really enjoy it. And it's just me having a
00:34conversation with really interesting, funny people. That's all. There's no bullshit thing
00:39that we're trying to hang around it. And I'm a pretty good talker and a good listener. I am.
00:45I'll listen to you. What do you have to say? Does David Cross, I think I explained this,
00:51yeah, and I had it removed when I was, still do standup. How dare you? I'm on motherfucking
00:59tour right now. I don't know when this comes out, but I'm about to go out on tour. Okay,
01:03this will be my 10th international tour. Yes, I do standup. It's not the kind of standup that
01:10gets nominated for Emmys, but it'll get its occasional Grammy. Better to listen to than,
01:16I guess, watch it on TV. Does David Cross write music? I did Clair de Lune. I guess that's one of
01:22my more famous pieces. And I wrote, oh, I did. I should say I wrote all Lil Xan's stuff, which is
01:29easy. I do that in my sleep. Does David Cross have more awards? Oh, I don't. I don't. Do I
01:42have more awards? I have less. Than Disney. Yes, I do. The Walt Disney Company and their subsidiaries,
01:50last time I checked, they had over 1,262 awards. And I have more than four. I have five. That's
02:00less than Disney. That's less than Disney. Next board. I do want to note that that is a very
02:10strange search to come up. Is this some dude named Disney that's not Walt Disney? Does David
02:15Cross have more awards than Jeffrey Disney? Yes, he does. Oh, yeah, like five more. David Cross,
02:23Amber Tamblyn. So we are going to celebrate our 13th anniversary, but we've been together for,
02:29I don't want to say too long, but a long time. And I love her, and she's pretty awesome,
02:34and she's the, she's the mother of my child. David Cross and Bob Odenkirk. Bob and I have
02:40been married for, Bob is one of my best friends. Bob and I just got back literally a couple weeks
02:49ago from climbing Machu Picchu, hiking the Inca Trail, which was quite difficult. We might have
02:54taken some cameras along. I'm not going to say nothing. Now, Bob has more awards than me.
03:02Uh, not more awards than Disney, but he, Bob does. Uh, and, and, and, well, he should,
03:08you know? He's a good guy. One of the funniest, smartest, most decent people I know. David Cross,
03:16first headshot. I'm a sniper. I'm not, I don't know how much I'm clear to say. David Cross
03:22in Scary Movie. I think you mean Scary Movie 2. Outside of Alvin and the Chipmunks, probably my
03:29most recognized role, so not all bad. Thank you. What's your name? Sonia. Sonia. Sonia's doing a
03:38great job. How would you say I'm doing for all the, the times that you passed, uh, the boards over?
03:45I think you've done the best. Really? Yeah. You're not just saying that? Maybe
03:48Gillian Anderson would blow it better. Oh, fuck you. Go to hell. Gillian,
03:53Gillian Anderson did better. I love the idea of, I love the idea of doing better. Okay. David Cross,
04:01Tobias. Yes. Um, I played the part of Tobias Menzies, who's a British actor in the Tobias
04:10Menzies story. I'm significantly older than him, so it's, it was weird, but I, hair and makeup,
04:16you know, prosthetics and everything. It didn't do well, uh, in the States. Not many people are
04:22familiar with him. And in the, in the UK, and I'm looking forward to another role, uh, where the
04:29character is named Tobias. It can be anything, uh, any Tobias, you know, whatever, make it funky. David
04:35Cross, tattoos. I have a couple of tattoos. You can sort of see some poking through. This is the
04:45cover of my favorite book, which is Masters of Atlantis, the original artwork. That's a, uh,
04:51kosher pig who is giving you his own barbecue. And then this is, uh, Hitler being spanked. It's
04:58like a, uh, a Fleischer Hitler being spanked by an Old Testament God. And his, he, Hitler is crying
05:06and his tears are forming the clouds, which, you know, rain create the water that, um, so that,
05:14that creates our bounty in America, our crops. So that's my, that's how religion works. David
05:19Cross, the Strokes. Strokes are, uh, some friends of mine. We all met back in that scene where
05:27everybody hung out together and we all went to the same seven, eight bars and did, everybody did
05:33shows and, uh, and we just got friendly. They're friendly with other comedians. I'm friends with
05:39other bands. It's cool. It's polyamorous, love their music and love their shows. Julian kissed
05:45me not once, but twice. How about that? I was very surprised, taking it back. Uh, didn't mind it.
05:51This is pre-beard. You understand. Ow! It took, it took a long time for the, okay. David Cross.
06:00Umbrella Academy. It was one of those things that happens occasionally where I was a Friday
06:06evening and I got this call and I was on a plane on Monday morning to go to production
06:12here in wardrobe. I hadn't seen the show, but I was, uh, uh, I was aware of it and I knew it was a,
06:17uh, much loved show. Went, shot a scene and met everybody. Everybody was, uh, the whole cast was
06:24there. Then on a break, I was home and my wife and I started to watch it and, uh, immediately hooked.
06:32It's smart. It's, you're never ahead of it. You're all kinds of questions. You're trying to figure
06:37stuff out. Just watch it. David Cross. Waiting for Guffman. Yes, that was, uh, one of the first
06:43things I did. One of the few people I, I would call a genius. One of the few people I knew that
06:48I would call a genius. Guy named Joe Frank did these kind of radio plays. Play isn't the right
06:54word. And he asked me to do one of his things. So I did this thing. It's called, it's like the final
06:59ride or the last ride or something like that. But I did O, OJ Simpson's manservant, um, who was
07:06with him in the back of the Bronco. It was, well, there was no YouTube. So people passed this, uh,
07:13tape around or the CD. And, um, and, and in Hollywood, especially it became kind of known
07:19because Joe Frank's stuff was off, uh, out of KCRW in, in Santa Monica. It's on a Beastie Boys
07:24album. It's been sampled. Um, and it kind of made its way around. And then Christopher Guest,
07:30who was putting Waiting for Guffman together, wanted to meet the guy who did that. David Cross.
07:36Yeah. Yeah. Uh, chicken pot pie. Uh, so chicken pot pie was a thing that I said, uh, in an episode
07:46of Just Shoot Me from, I believe it aired in 1892. You know, the line was, I just rifted.
07:53I went, chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie. People loved it. They still do. I don't get
07:58it. I don't. It became, you know, the thing that people would point at me and say, you know,
08:05chicken pot pie. And, uh, and, uh, at the airport or whatever, or maybe I'm on the phone and my
08:11girlfriend's breaking up with me and I'm starting to cry and people go, hey, do chicken pot pie.
08:16I'll, I'll be abroad. I'll be in fucking China and people, it's crazy. Yeah. I don't get it.
08:23Not that funny. Here it is. Ready? Where did David Cross grow up? Some would say I haven't
08:30really finished growing up, but the bulk of my growing up was in Georgia, Roswell, Georgia,
08:37a suburb of Atlanta. Although back when I was there, it was very rural. I didn't say redneck.
08:43I didn't say that. I said rural. I was born in Georgia and moved around a bunch all over Florida,
08:48Connecticut, New York, then moved back when I was nine and then stayed there until I was 19.
08:54Is David Cross, I'm homeless. Oh, uh, in GTA San Andreas. Yes, I am. Yes, I am. Uh, and I would,
09:05first of all, apologize because by far easily the most annoying and difficult missions are
09:12my characters. I can't remember the characters named. My character was like nerdy and annoying,
09:17an annoying voice, which, which is fine if you're going to breeze right through the thing.
09:22But if you have to constantly hear the voice berate, and I'm playing it. It's the model
09:27airplane mission that took forever. And I have to listen to myself berating me. David Cross.
09:35David Cross. Halo two quotes. I have no idea. I mean, I played it when it came out. What are
09:41we on? Like Halo 104 at this point. So I don't know what they are. Maybe you do. Oh, maybe the
09:48internet does. Google it. Was David Cross in Aqua Team Hunger Force? Yes, I was. I reprised the
09:56character of, I want to say Happy Time Harry. I think that was it. Just a morose, suicidal,
10:03nihilistic, you know, jerk, which fits in that world. Oh, that's all the boards. What'd you
10:11think of them till next time? Why would there be a next time? I'll see you in 2028.