Taking up the baton so tragically laid down by Bill Hicks in the early ’90s, comedian David Cross also echoes some of the late Sam Kinison’s heavy metal comedic riffery, as an appallingly wonderful, knee-weakening abortion joke illustrates early on here. Though as gross as he can be, Cross isn’t tediously politically incorrect, as anti-war and anti-Bush routines pour fresh and furious scorn on neo-con trickery. A routine about a mega-expensive restaurant’s gold-leaf-topped dessert as “capitalism’s ultimate fuck-you to the poor” will leave you sick and reeling. Ten years we’ve been waiting for this guy…
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