It's Not Funny is David Cross

David Cross

David Cross is an American actor, writer and stand-up comedian perhaps best known for his work on HBO's sketch comedy series Mr...

' 2004 stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television...

 album, released on Sub Pop Records. The track titles, like those on his previous record Shut Up You Fucking Baby!

Shut Up You Fucking Baby!

Shut Up, You Fucking Baby! is a double-CD, live comedy album by David Cross. It was nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 2004. The cover states the title as "Shut Up, You [lift flap for dirty word] Baby!" to accommodate stores that would object to the full title.The album's material is...

, have no relevance to the bits Cross does on the album and are instead there to make fun of material performed by other comedians, either on the whole or targeted at specific comedians. Cross has said the album's title references children being laughed at by their friends while trying to tell them something important, only to reply, "Come on guys, it's not funny.". Stand Up! Records

Stand Up! Records

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 also released a limited LP edition of 500 for this release, as they had for Shut Up You Fucking Baby!. Like the CD, it also contains a hidden track that plays from the label out to a locked groove. This edition is a single LP, unlike its predecessor.

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 Doing Since the Mid-Eighties! – 12:51
    • Contains a hidden track
      Hidden track
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       after a period of silence with an additional comedy routine about then-former Creed
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       vocalist Scott Stapp
      Scott Stapp
      Scott Alan Stapp is an American musician and singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Creed, of which he is a founding member. His debut solo album, The Great Divide, was released in 2005. A second album, Between Lust and Love, is currently in production...
      
      , and awkwardly meeting him on Celebrity Poker Showdown
      Celebrity Poker Showdown
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       (he says in track 2 he would "rather hear the death rattle
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       of my only child" than listen to Creed
      Creed (band)
      Creed is an American rock band formed in 1995 in Tallahassee, Florida. Becoming popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the band has released three consecutive multi-platinum albums, one of which has been certified diamond, and has sold over 28 million records in the United States, with an...
      
      .)

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