At the book signing Thursday, I thanked David Cross for coming to Toronto and told him I'd be in the front row the next day. He said, "That's great. It's going to be awesome." And indeed it was.
No point in trying to feign an unbiased opinion (...uh, above photo?) Obviously I'm a big fan and had been counting down the days to the show. To say I'm familiar with his work and recordings is an understatement and while this was very much a David Cross stand-up, it wasn't at all what I was expecting... in the best possible way.
Right out of the gate he sang a song about what we could expect in the show (no jokes about Cosmonauts) and the vast majority of the material was new stuff I hadn't heard before. There were a couple of moments where David shifted gears as he saw that certain bits (about Mormons for example) didn't have the same cultural resonance with us Canucks as they do with American audiences. He even hinted at bits briefly that he quickly decided not to do after all, suggesting the material is likely ever-changing on this tour.
Todd Glass opened for the show with a frenetic and funny 15 minute set and later on got involved with some in-audience antics for a bit about live-blogging and tweeting, playfully hinting at a deep disdain for malicious and factually inaccurate blogging that he talks about in his book "I Drink For A Reason."
My deepest concern of the day was that with two shows in one evening, we'd have ours (the first) cut short for time. But it was certainly an ample set around ninety minutes and while at the end there was a sense of urgency to wrap it up for the next show, as a final encore/treat we were given a 2-3 minute glimpse of an upcoming British sitcom called "The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret" that he said he's really proud of yet may not broadcast here in Canada. It looks very promising and with Arrested Development co-star Will Arnett and Spike Jonze involved, one can't help but get a little excited about the potential.
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