Biography
David Cross is an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and director most known for his stand-up appearances, the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David, and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the Fox/Netflix sitcom Arrested Development. He has been referred to as “one of the defining figures of cult Gen X comedy”.
Age
He is 60 years old as of 4 April 2024. He was born in 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Family – College
Cross was born in Roswell, Georgia, to Jewish parents. His parents are Barry, who moved from Leeds, England, and Susi Cross. Six months after his birth, Cross’s family relocated to Florida. The family relocated to New York and Connecticut before settling in Roswell, where Cross lived for nearly a decade. He is the oldest of three children, with younger sisters Juli and Wendy.
The family had little money. Cross recounted being evicted from their house and spending time in motels and at friends’ homes in his adolescence. Barry abandoned the family when Cross was ten years old; the two haven’t spoken since he was 19, yet they both lived in New York City until Cross sold his property there in 2011.
Wife – Children
Cross and Amber Tamblyn got engaged in August 2011, after four years of dating. They got married in 2012. On February 21, 2017, Tamblyn revealed that she and Cross had a daughter.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $10 million.
Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet 8¼ inches (1.73 m).
Stand-up
Cross started doing stand-up comedy at the age of 17, and after graduating from Northside High School in Atlanta, he moved to New York City. He worked briefly for a lawn care firm before attending Emerson College in Boston. While there, he joined This is Pathetic, a collegiate sketch comedy group, where he met John Ennis.They went on a road trip to Los Angeles in 1985, but their acting careers did not take off. Cross began performing stand-up more frequently in Boston, which had a thriving comedy scene from the mid-1980s until the early 1990s.
In 1990, a new comedy scene evolved at the comedy club chain Catch a Rising Star, when Cross and 12 other performers created the sketch comedy company “Cross Comedy”. They were infamous for pulling pranks on the crowd, such as introducing false comics or planting fake hecklers. Cross then appeared at Los Angeles’ alternative comedy venue Un-Cabaret, where radio artist Joe Frank engaged him to appear in his 1994 radio shows “A Hearing” and “The Last Run.”
Cross’ stand-up comedy combines political commentary and satire. In 1999, he appeared on HBO for a one-hour comedy special called The Pride Is Back. In 2003, he released his first tour film, Let America Laugh, and was ranked #85 on Comedy Central’s list of the top 100 stand-up comedians of all time.He has five comedy albums: Shut Up You Fucking Baby!, It’s Not Funny, Bigger and Blacker, Making America Great Again/…America… Great…, and Oh, Come On. Cross’ albums are frequently issued in many audio and video formats, with distinct titles on each. His stand-up humor was used in Comedy Central’s 2004 animated series Shorties Watchin’ Shorties, as well as on various Un-Cabaret compilation CDs.
Career
Cross started his TV vocation as an essayist on The Ben Stiller Show, where he momentarily showed up in draws. He met Weave Odenkirk during this period, who might later co-make the HBO sketch satire series Mr. Show with Bounce and David. Cross won an Emmy for his work on The Ben Stiller Show in 1993. He later co-featured as Tobias Fünke in Captured Advancement and assumed more modest parts on projects like Simply Shoot Me!, The Drew Carey Show, NewsRadio, Outsiders with Candy, Tim and Eric Marvelous Show, Extraordinary Work, and Water Adolescent Yearning Power.
In 2005, Cross showed up consistently on Good times TV’s The Colbert Report as Stephen Colbert’s enemy Russ Lieber. He fostered a vivified series for Fun times TV called Oddity Show, which was dropped because of low evaluations. Cross has showed up on Miracle Showzen a few times.
In 1994 and 1999, Cross was a visitor voice entertainer on Joe Straightforward’s public broadcast, highlighting in episodes “The Last Run”, “A Consultation”, “The O.J. Narratives”, and “Jam”. In 2013, he got back to show up in an episode of Candid’s public broadcast, named “A Discussion.”
In 2004, Cross gave voices to different characters in different media, remembering a Marine for Corona 2 and a store representative named Zero in Fabulous Burglary Auto: San Andreas. He likewise voiced the “Blissful Time Harry” doll and Bert Banana in Water Adolescent Yearning Power. Cross has made visitor appearances in Tim and Eric Amazing Show, Extraordinary Work!, coordinated the music video for The Dark Keys’ tune “10 A.M. Programmed”, showed up in The Strokes’ music video for “Juicebox”, and added to Bad habit magazine with a segment, My America.
In 2006, Cross depicted Nathaniel Hörnblowér in the Beastie Young men’s show film Amazing; I Fuckin Shot That! furthermore, Allen Ginsberg in I’m Not There. Notwithstanding, the series’ undoing prompted Cross’ possible appearance as Tobias Fünke.
Cross gave discourse on the Vicarious music video DVD for Apparatus and recently performed parody as an initial represent the band and its individuals showed up on Mr. Show a few times. He featured in David’s Circumstance, a pilot for HBO, which was dropped because of undoing.
In 2009, Cross delivered his most memorable book, I Drink for an Explanation, highlighting journals, sarcastic fictitious diaries, and material from Cross that initially showed up in different distributions. In September 2009, Cross performed at the ATP New York 2009 live event with Eugene Mirman, H. Jon Benjamin, Jon Glaser, and Derrick Brown and The Naval force Sauce.
In 2012, Cross featured close by Julia Stiles and America Ferrera in It’s a Calamity, which debuted at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Celebration. Oscilloscope Labs obtained US conveyance freedoms to the film, delivering it in select performance centers starting April 13, 2013.
Cross’ first time at the helm film Hits debuted at the 2014 Sundance Film Celebration, and he selected to sell the film over Digit Deluge through their “groups” program, which made a difference “legitimize” the stage. Cross sent off a Kickstarter crusade for the film’s general delivery, which would circulate the film utilizing a compensation what you need strategy.
In 2015, episodes were requested for another sketch parody show featuring Cross and Odenkirk called W/Sway and David, which debuted in November 2015 on Netflix. Cross showed up as a big name visitor on the Public Radio-partnered test show Ask Me One more in 2016, winning an award bundle that incorporated some denim cutoff shorts he personally had signed.
In 2018, Cross made the eight-episode dark satire series Ecstasy, which was delivered by the BritBox web-based feature. He likewise gave the lead character’s “white voice” in the sci-fi parody film Sorry to Irritate You in 2018.
Movies
♦ 2023 – You Hurt My Feelings
♦ 2021 – 8-Bit Christmas
♦ 2020 – Beastie Boys Story
♦ 2020 – The Dark Divide
♦ 2018 – Sorry to Bother You
♦ 2018 – Next Gen
♦ 2017 – The Post
♦ 2016 – Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
♦ 2016 – Kung Fu Panda 3
♦ 2016 – Folk Hero & Funny Guy
♦ 2015 – The Wolfpack Project
♦ 2015 – Pitch Perfect 2
♦ 2014 – Hits
♦ 2014 – Obvious Child
♦ 2013 – Kill Your Darlings
♦ 2013 – The Gynotician
♦ 2012 – It’s a Disaster
♦ 2011 – Fight For Your Right Revisited
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – The Umbrella Academy
♦ 2023 – Justified: City Primeval
♦ 2023 – Krapopolis
♦ 2021–2023 – Teenage Euthanasia
♦ 2021 – Genius
♦ 2021 – What We Do in the Shadows
♦ 2021 – Station Eleven
♦ 2021 – Bubble Guppies
♦ 2019–2020 – Big Mouth
♦ 2018–2019 – Goliath
♦ 2018 – Bliss
♦ 2018 – Ask the StoryBots
♦ 2018 – The Shivering Truth
♦ 2018 – Archer
♦ 2017 – Pig Goat Banana Cricket
♦ 2016–2017 – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
♦ 2016 – We Bare Bears
♦ 2015 – Asylum
♦ 2015 – TripTank
♦ 2015 – W/ Bob & David
♦ 2014 – Rick and Morty
♦ 2014 – Community
♦ 2014 – Dead Boss
♦ 2014 – Maron
♦ 2014 – Drunk History