Name: David Cross on Why He Doesn’t Like LA, Machu Picchu Hike with Bob Odenkirk & New Comedy Special
Uploaded: 2026-03-29T21:32:46.000Z
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The superlative

Our next guest, you know, from two of the best shows ever, Arrested Development and Mr.

His new comedy special is called The End of the Beginning of the End.

It's available at officialdavidcross.com.

Even when I was young and, um, you know, many were chasing me through the streets.

I still—I should have said I still don't find you very attractive.

How—you're—you live in Brooklyn, uh, now.

Um, I—you know, I'm not a, a, uh—I don't hate LA, but I'm not a huge fan.

But I—I try to not get here as often as possible.

What is it about it that you, uh, kind of don't like?

I find it very depressing, uh, and, and bleak, uh.

And, and, um, you rarely have, uh, a connection with people, uh, uh, in a—on a day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month basis.

Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that you tell them that you don't find them attractive right off the bat?

Because there are friendlier ways to open a conversation.

I—you're literally the only person I've ever talked to.

No, I—I, uh, um, I was just here last week.

Like, I don't know, LA—I've lived here for nine and a half years,

And, uh, so I know what I'm talking about when I say I don't like it.

But the—and this—I'm—I—this isn't, like, set up or anything,

but I just want to say that, uh, the other day I was driving down National, and, uh, there is a sushi place, for real, called Yama Sushi,

Their—you know, their sign, uh, says, "Sushi, sake, and attitude." And that's a terrible marketing.

Well, sushi wasn't great, but yeah, I got a lot of attitude.

Sometimes there are—there are ver—there are adjectives that show up just as a result of a mistranslation.

They're like, "That looks like a good one." I—I doubt it.

Um, you—when you lived here, where—like, did you—you were poor, right, when you lived here?

This was like a young—well, I mean, I'm not—Yeah.

Um, you're supposed to be poor when you're young.

You'll be a better person when you're older and rich.

Um, well, okay, so I lived here—I came here for work, uh,

but prior to that, uh, I was out here for about five months with, uh, uh, some friends,

and then we were supposed to stay in a, a, apartment,

but then the guy backed out and said, "You can't." So we ended up—my, my—a friend of ours was good enough to, for real, give us his car to sleep in,

and so we slept, uh, uh—it was me and John Ennis, if you know John Ennis from the show.

So John and I slept in a car for a little while, and—and then we were lucky enough to find a place—this is absolutely for real—in a, uh, pantry behind a kitchen, uh, in a frat.

On—and that's where we—there were three of us, yeah, and, uh, and, uh.

We lived in a—You were not students, but living in a frat house.

Um, and the funniest thing was they thought of themselves as really, um, as.