# Amber Tamblyn, 28, to marry David Cross, 47 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091 "2011-08-17T23:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/41 "2011-08-19T14:27:40Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > The age difference doesn’t faze me at all. Here’s what makes it feel creepy: David Cross is creepy. Like, professionally. Perhaps _only_ professionally, he may well be a delightful human being IRL, but I simply can’t visualize it. Personally, he seems to be worse. He flies off the handle at anybody he thinks is beneath him. This has included actors he hates even though his own resume includes such gems as all three Alvin & the Chipmunks movies, Year One and Scary Movie 2. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/42 "2011-08-19T14:48:43Z")
There’s no accounting for taste. He must really make her laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/43 "2011-08-19T14:49:42Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Joan of Arcadia is marrying Tobias Funke. I think I need to lay down. Word. What would her mom, Mary Steenbergen, say? ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/44 "2011-08-19T16:02:27Z")
[Catherine Zeta-Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Zeta_Jones#Personal_life) was 31 when she married Michael Douglas, 56 at the time. I believe they’re still together. 31 feels a whole lot older than 28, though. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/45 "2011-08-19T17:17:19Z")
Catherine and Michael are VERY together. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/46 "2011-08-19T17:24:52Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > There’s no accounting for taste. He must really make her laugh. If she likes him, she likes him. I’m not the one who’s got to live with him. ---
**Author:** ![Implicit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/47 "2011-08-19T17:47:41Z")
> [@Meltdown](#): > > [Catherine Zeta-Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Zeta_Jones#Personal_life) was 31 when she married Michael Douglas, 56 at the time. I believe they’re still together. > > 31 feels a whole lot older than 28, though. But 56 doesn’t feel older than 47? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/48 "2011-08-19T21:42:24Z")
I agree with what some others have said. It’s not so much the issue that Amber Tamblyn is marrying David Cross and she’s younger, better looking, and arguably more successful. I’m just surprised that anyone is marrying David Cross. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/49 "2011-08-19T21:53:02Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > The age difference doesn’t faze me at all. Here’s what makes it feel creepy: David Cross is creepy. Like, professionally. Perhaps _only_ professionally, he may well be a delightful human being IRL, but I simply can’t visualize it. I doubt it. And I say that as a fan; I thought _Mr. Show_ was brilliant and Cross’s standup usually hilarious, when he’s not just on a drunken partisan rant. But his entire comedy foundation is built on sarcastic mockery of people around him, and he’s got a reputation for being a douche which is not exactly difficult to imagine. Plus, he has (or had, as he talked about on his last comedy album) a flourishing drug problem. Best of luck to both of them in the marriage, though! ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/50 "2011-08-20T05:16:17Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Joan of Arcadia is marrying Tobias Funke. I think I need to lay down. No, Joan of Arcadia is marrying Donny. “Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/51 "2011-08-20T14:20:22Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I think you mean _Alex_ Kingston. He left her for Annis too. He abandoned all the Kingston women for her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091.md?page=2)