I'M FROM THE FUTURE

1. Anti-vaxxers comparing vaccine mandates to the Holocaust

   Cross opens the show recounting the harrowing narrative of a woman sent to Auschwitz, creating audience tension before puncturing it to mock anti-vaxxers who equate their situation to Nazi atrocities.

2. Finding joy in anti-vax deaths and podcast misinformation

   Grants the audience permission to privately take satisfaction in the deaths of those refusing vaccination, while roasting figures like 'Dr. Joseph Rogan' and listeners taking horse dewormer.

3. Euthanizing his dog Ollie Red Sox

   Offers a vulnerable autobiographical story about making the painful decision to put his old dog to sleep, joking about whether he kept her alive solely to keep doing standup bits about her aging.

Tone

Angry, biting, cathartic, and darkly satirical.

On stage

Sneering, divisive, and unapologetically confrontational political satirist.

Pace

Intimate and close-up music venue energy featuring long diatribes, high-wire setups, and in-your-face punchlines.

About

COVID-19 pandemic, anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, right-wing politics and conservatism, podcast misinformation, living in Brooklyn, grief and putting down an elderly pet

Received mixed-to-critical reviews; The Guardian praised the high-wire opening but felt contempt for the right eroded the comedy, while Paste Magazine deemed it a rare stumble where familiarity and pandemic exhaustion dampened the humor.

In the room: An intimate, nervous, and engaged room that laughed cathartically while navigating tense and taboo setups.

Summed up from reviews, articles and listings. Sources: officialdavidcross.com, tv.apple.com, themoviedb.org, donyc.com, theguardian.com, pastemagazine.com, vanyaland.com, au.rollingstone.com, en.wikipedia.org, consequence.net, imdb.com.