Bigger and Blackerer [PA] [Digipak] by David (Comedy) Cross (CD, May-2010, Sub Pop (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	098787088229
Artist:	David (Comedy) Cross
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2010
Record Label:	Sub Pop (USA)
Genre:	Comedy

Track Listing
1. Opening Song (The Sultan's Revenge)
2. If You Care
3. That One Show About Drugs and Stuff
4. Me and Drugs
5. Black Stuff
6. ...Or Worse
7. Where We Are Now Back in September '09
8. Silly Religious Crazies
9. REALLY Silly Religious Crazies, I Mean, Double, Triple Crazy!!
10. Random Goofabouts
11. I Can't Get Beer in Me...
12. Lesson Learned

Details
Playing Time:	63 min.
Distributor:	ADA
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Audio Mixer: Phil Ek.Recording information: The Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA (10/19/2009).Editor: Phil Ek.Photographer: Ariele Hertzoff.If It's Not Funny suffered the perennial sophomore problem of following its successor just a little bit too closely, the same certainly can not be said of Bigger and Blackerer, David Cross' third album. Delivered six years after It's Not Funny -- for a quick comparison, Mr. Show's four seasons aired over the course of three years on HBO -- Bigger and Blackerer is certainly filled with new material that touches upon many favorite Cross topics, lingering for a particularly long time on drugs and religion, two subjects that prove enduringly fertile for the comedian. He finds new wrinkles in each -- dealing with the fall-out of middle-age narcotic experimentation, delivering a sharp bit on Mormons and California's Proposition 8 -- as he winds his way between longer set pieces and one-off jokes, tossing them off to see if the audience runs with them and deciding to switch subjects when they don't. There's an ease to his delivery that belies the album's overblown title, but Bigger and Blackerer is indeed a bigger to-do than any of Cross' previous projects, and not just because it was recorded at two consecutive shows at Boston's Wilbur Theatre, a venue considerably larger than those that provided the staging grounds for Shut Up, You F****** Baby! and It's Not Funny. The two shows aren't cut together into a seamless string of highlights, but rather presented as one CD and one DVD containing the two different performances, which turns out to be a bit of a godsend for comedy nerds who can now linger in the minute differences between the two performances, hearing how Cross twists the same material just a few hours later, following the different detours in each performance. No other comedy album or video has been presented like this, and it helps make Bigger and Blackerer something a little bit more than a very good comedy album. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- David Cross knows how to get away with comedy murder....[He']s never afraid to be too crass or cerebral.
Alternative Press