David Cross "Jesus Talks"

David Cross "Shut Up, You Fucking Baby" Portland, Oregon and Atlanta, Georgia. Youtube 2.25.09

In David Cross' stand-up comedy he often talks about religion (Christianity, Judaism, Science in relation to religion, reason, etc). As an atheist jew who grew up in the south, he clearly has an opinion on religion and he shares it frequently: religion is ridiculous. Usually he flat-out mocks religion, referring to the bible as something similar to dungeons and dragons and citing and pointing out other ridiculous aspects of christianity and Judaism (like how it's not fair that in Judaism, no matter what you believe, whether you're an atheist or think that God is a unicorn and babies taste like lemonade, if your mother is Jewish, then so are you). In this youtube audio clip David Cross takes a less risky, less offensive stance on religion. He observes how in all depictions of Jesus, actors attribute him to having a somber, knowing voice of reason and wisdom, but in reality nobody really knows what Jesus sounded like. Jesus could have had any number of voices, and David Cross wonders what if Jesus spoke in a really effeminate southern voice. His humor here is potentially offensive, but for the most part it is innocuous. It makes no groundbreaking observations about religion or christianity, all Cross does is ponder a what if and runs with it. The absurdity and unfamiliarity of this "what if..." is what makes it so hysterical.