David Cross - Let America Laugh
Let America Laughis 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 Laughcaptures the ups and downs (mostly downs) of Cross's 2002 tour of North American clubs. Notable sequences find theMr. Showstar 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