Humor & Life Quote by David Cross

A comedian bragging about having "no skeletons" is, of course, already standing in a closet. David Cross lands the line by pretending to offer the cleanest possible self-assessment, then choosing the one metaphor that screams scandal, secrecy, and buried history. The joke is not just that he claims innocence; its that the modern demand for purity has gotten so intense that the absence of a cancellation-ready past becomes a selling point, like a low-mileage used car.

Crosss intent reads as defensive and aggressive at once: a preemptive strike against the audiences and media ecosystems trained to hunt for gotchas. The phrase "the best thing about me" is a deliberately low bar. Its not "Im kind" or "Im brilliant" but "Im unexposable". That tiny shift skewers a culture where moral worth is increasingly audited through receipts, screenshots, and old set clips. When the currency is outrage, the most valuable asset is a lack of evidence.

The subtext is also classic Cross: distrust of sincerity, impatience with sanctimony, and a willingness to implicate himself in the very mechanisms hes mocking. Because the audience knows comedians traffic in taboo, the claim feels suspicious by design. "No skeletons" can sound less like innocence than like better disposal. The line plays with that ambiguity, letting listeners laugh while privately checking their own closet door: not "Am I good?" but "Could I be caught?"