I'm sure Mr. Cross is a very nice and civil guy, in a hands-off fashion, but I suspect that he doesn't much enjoy anything outside the David bubble. It follows. The Comics of the School of Ironic Detachment seem to feel that they're too sensitive to be understood, that the near-planet-full of people that don't laugh at their jokes simply doesn't understand their jokes. I wonder if anybody ever told that to Mitch Hedberg, who was funnier in one single set than Mr. Cross hopes to be in his entire, self-acknowledged miserable life.

I'm attempting to be too cute, and I apologize. But it boils down to this: One who is sensitive to criticism by Patton Oswalt ought to rethink one's career.