It's Not Funny
It's Not Funny is David Cross' 2004 stand-up comedy album, released on Sub Pop
It's Not Funny
Records. The track titles, like those on his previous record Shut Up You Fucking
Baby!, have no relevance to the bits Cross does on the album and are instead there to Studio album by David Cross
make fun of material performed by other comedians, either on the whole or targeted Released November 14, 2004
at specific comedians. Cross has said the album's title references children being Recorded 2004
laughed at by their friends while trying to tell them something important, only to
Genre Stand-up comedy
reply, "Come on guys, it's not funny.".[1] Stand Up! Records also released a limited
LP edition of 500 for this release, as they had for Shut Up You Fucking Baby!. Like
Length 73:06
the CD, it also contains a hidden track that plays from the label out to a locked Label Sub Pop
groove. This edition is a single LP, unlike its predecessor. Producer ?
David Cross chronology
Shut Up It's Not Bigger and
Contents You Funny Blackerer
Fucking (2004) (2010)
Track listing
Baby!
Reception (2002)
References
External links
Track listing
1. Certain Leaders in Government Look or Act like Certain Pop Culture References! – 4:51
2. Women, Please Rinse Off Your Vagina and Anus! – 5:10
3. I've Taken a Popular Contemporary Pop Song and Changed the Lyrics to Comment on the Proliferation of Starbucks
in My Neighborhood! – 3:16
4. A Rapid Series of Comical Noises! – 3:57
5. Although Indigent, Rural Families Have Little to Say in the Matter
, Third Rate Public Education Has Kept Them
Ignorant and Thus, Great Sources of Ridicule! – 2:48
6. My Child is Enthralling, Especially When It Says Something Unexpectedly Precocious Even Though It Doesn't
Understand What It Just Said! – 8:38
7. My Immigrant Mom Talks Funny! – 13:37
8. When It Comes to Jews, Behavior One Might Perceive as Obnoxious and Annoying I Present as 'Quirky' but It's
Okay to Joke About It Because I, Myself, Am Jewish! – 6:01
9. Pandering to the Locals! – 7:13
10. Even Though I Am in the Closet, That Won't Prevent Me from Getting Cheap Laughs at the Expense of
Homosexuals! – 2:37
11. Weathermen Have Become, for the Most Part, Obsolete! – 2:53
12. When All is Said and Done, I am Lonely and Miserable and Barely Able to Mask My Contempt for the Audience as I
Trot Out the Same Sorry Act I've Been DoingSince the Mid-Eighties! – 12:51
Contains a hidden track after a period of silence with an additional comedy routine about then-former
Creed
vocalist Scott Stapp, and awkwardly meeting him onCelebrity Poker Showdown(he says in track 2 he would
"rather hear the death rattle of [his] only child" than listen toCreed.)
Reception
References
1. David Cross: Albums to Listen to While Reading
Overwrought Pitchfork Reviews | Pitchfork(http://pitchfork.co Professional ratings
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Review scores
while-reading-overwrought-pitchfork-reviews/)
Source Rating
External links Allmusic link
Pitchfork Media (6.5/10) link
Q&A session from the band
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