


Lest it seem like I am in the tank for Cross or anything, he arrived about five minutes late, and his beard was too bushy. Maybe that’s why he came up with the idea of combining the interview with the photo shoot: more time to do good work elsewhere. It’s an impressive amount of work that maintains an impressive level of quality, which isn’t easy to do in any discipline, let alone in three or four at the same time. Show), sometimes as a principal ( Arrested Development), sometimes as an occasional guest star ( Modern Family), while at the same time maintaining a career as a stand-up comedian (his last album, Bigger and Blackerer, was released in 2010), an author (his book, I Drink For a Reason, was published by Grand Central in 2009), and a writer-producer ( The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, a show he created and stars in about an American “businessman” in London, has run for two seasons on IFC).
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I got to the studio a little early, was frightened by a small stuffed tiger, and then sat and thought about Cross’s career, and particularly the way in which he has participated in several of the most acclaimed comedy series of our time, sometimes as a co-creator ( Mr. Cross was being photographed for the pictures that will accompany this interview, and in the interest of efficiency, he had asked if I could speak to him while the makeup artist prepared him for the shoot. When I met David Cross, it was in a studio space in Williamsburg filled with old furniture, taxidermied animals, and medium-volume American rock music. By Brooklyn Magazine and Brooklyn Magazine
