David Cross writes comic essays and memoir-like pieces with the abrasive, political and deliberately uncomfortable humour familiar from his stand-up work. I Drink for a Reason collects arguments, lists, anecdotes and satirical pieces on religion, advertising, entertainment, politics and everyday irritation, shifting rapidly between personal experience and invented comic premises. Bigger and Blackerer preserves another part of his stand-up material in book and performance-related form, while other published writing often sits close to comedy rather than conventional autobiography. Cross's prose is profane, digressive and intentionally confrontational, with the joke often depending on pushing an argument further than polite conversation would allow. His work fits comedian memoir, satirical essays and political humour, particularly for readers of Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman and other alternative-comedy writers. Read more Less
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