I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage. David Cross More Quotes by David Cross More Quotes From David Cross There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?" David Cross painful shows said The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism. David Cross xenophobia immigration racism I think for a lot of people, it's just where their saturation point was. Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff and the Republican stuff and the Ayn Rand followers, it doesn't let up for about half an hour. It gets hard and stays hard for a while. David Cross followers people thinking I don't want to do 20 minutes on Donald Trump. I want to do 10 minutes and move on. I wouldn't even do that with a live show, because I don't want it to feel like "An Evening Of Political Comedy." David Cross evening political moving I think the policies, for the most part, that [Hillary Clinton] will put in place are not going to make positive changes. There'll be more status quo. She'll certainly be good for some groups of people. Whatever. David Cross groups people thinking I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself. David Cross hipster kind white I think it was there before, but - because of social media, too - there are these people who fancy themselves as tolerant, and don't see the hypocrisy and double standard of how they're not tolerant at all, and they're just strident and they don't listen. There's no dialogue anymore. That's maybe, truly, the worst part of Trump's legacy is just people yelling at each other. David Cross yelling media thinking I'm not a centrist, and there's nothing about me that's centrist. I never have been. David Cross has-beens I'm concerned about how and why there is no gun control. David Cross gun-control concerned gun I'm finally going to be able to finally criticize [Hillary Clinton] without being accused of being a sexist - that idea. I'm not a fan, I don't like her, but you can't say anything without being accused of being a sexist pig, which is unfair. David Cross say-anything pigs ideas In my political philosophy - which is definitely more socialist Democrat than centrist politician like Hillary Clinton - I think regulation for banks and those platforms that Bernie Sanders had are good for the whole of America. David Cross philosophy america thinking I'm not going to benefit from free college education, but I think all those things are good for the country. David Cross college country thinking There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really. David Cross disingenuous politician I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain. David Cross brain sky writing [If Donald Trump does get elected, I will be] probably Secretary Of Reeducation. Or I don't know. I'll probably end up working in the cafeteria. David Cross cafeteria ends doe It's easy to see that two people might come up with that same idea. David Cross two people ideas And it's one more shitty thing to write about somebody, in between getting really, really, really upset at female Ghostbusters and Gamergate, and the things that really matter. David Cross upset female writing I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another. David Cross empathy passionate people I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life. David Cross reviews plenty negative Hopefully people will be reinventing comedy forever and ever. This is just what I do, and it's a type of comedy. David Cross comedy forever people
