{"id":27593,"date":"2026-04-16T17:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=27593"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:23:34","slug":"how-david-cross-gets-ready-for-a-night-of-dangerous-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=27593","title":{"rendered":"How David Cross Gets Ready for a Night of \u2018Dangerous\u2019 Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><!--[2--><!--[--><!--[!-->&lt;!&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i5c8kc\">[&#8211;&gt;<!--&gt;One might imagine that jokes about slavery would be off the table in 2026. \u201cNot at all,\u201d Mr. Cross said. The bit, in which he imagines that he would have been a generous, benign slave owner, grew out of an exchange he had during preparation for an earlier tour. At the time he needed a setup for it, he said. \u201cIt felt like it was like, \u2018Oh my, I\u2019m trying to be shocking.\u2019\u201d Then he thought of tying it to a hike on the Inca Trail, built by enslaved workers. With that context, he said, it worked.--><!--]-->&lt;!&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&gt;<!--]--><!--]--><!--]--><!--[2--><!--[--><!--[!-->&lt;!&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i5c8kc\">[&#8211;&gt;<!--&gt;\u201cI\u2019ve done plenty of stuff that is, for lack of a better word, button-pushing,\u201d he said.--><!--]-->&lt;!&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&gt;<!--]--><!--]--><!--]--><!--[2--><!--[--><!--[!-->&lt;!&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i5c8kc\">[&#8211;&gt;<!--&gt;Is that fun for him?--><!--]-->&lt;!&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&gt;<!--]--><!--]--><!--]--><!--[2--><!--[--><!--[!-->&lt;!&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i5c8kc\">[&#8211;&gt;<!--&gt;\u201cOh, yeah,\u201d he said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t do it if it wasn\u2019t. It makes the set that night memorable and interesting and potentially dangerous. I mean, it\u2019s live. That\u2019s part of the fun of doing a live show.\u201d--><!--]-->&lt;!&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&gt;<!--]--><!--]--><!--]--><!--]--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/04\/11\/nyregion\/routine-david-cross.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;!&#8211;&gt; [&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;&gt; &#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;&gt; [&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;&gt; &#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;&gt; [&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;&gt; &#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;&gt; [&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;&gt; &#8211;&gt; Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/How-David-Cross-Gets-Ready-for-a-Night-of-\u2018Dangerous.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27595,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27593\/revisions\/27595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}