Dane Cook

[Eman24dx 0]

By far one of the funniest comedians today. Im going to see him in Syracuse and in Atlantic City. His new CD is amazing. If you never heard his stuff I believe theres clips on his website. Danecook.com I believe.

[crosskore 0]

Thats some funny stuff.

[mack 44]

He was funny a couple years ago but really haven't heard anything new.

[Gongshow11 1]

"f**k bees"

[prenny207 1]

i f-n love that guy... he's gotta be one of the best younger comedians around. my buddy saw him last year at albion college in michigan... he performed in their school church hall... he starts by looking around... everybody who knows his stuff is thinking this is gonna be interesting in a church... next thing you know, he starts with an f-bomb. gotta love it.

[tipsy_39 0]

hes f-n awsome

[Vapor 0]

he is too over the top for me, gotta go obscure and dry

[laquinta 0]

I like this one!

"Oprah" - Dane Cook

[reyno2ac 0]

I think he is hilarious but if you listen to his stuff to often it all starts to blend together because he reuses a lot of his jokes.

[mack 44]

Then he changes it up to using others' jokes.

[trevor13478 1]

good in small doses, gets old fast though. i will say he is one of the few comedians that makes me laugh out loud when watching him on tv. you can only go so far on over-the-top wackyness though.

[Tailboard Jockey 25]

Then he changes it up to using others' jokes.

Just like Carlos Menstealia.

[Ahriman 1]

He is funnier in smaller doses. He was also funny to me when his act was novel and different, in 2002. Regardless after I watched the Tourgasm dvds I honestly just kinda think he's an occasionally funny prick.

Seriously, if you're a fan, don't watch tourgasm because it just kinda makes him look like an asshole enough to ruin my image of him.

[Rustpot 1]

He swears too much in my opinion. I know plenty of people that can be just as funny.

[xstartxtodayx 343]

He's ok as an actor, but as a comedian I must say he's about as funny as the plague. His jokes are too long and drawn out to hold my interest and his act is distracting... I'll take George Carlin or Stephen Lynch any day, even Carlos Mencias since his jokes are quick and to the point (even if they're redundant and recycled).

[dalebert 8]

I had gotten a chance to see him a few years back at MSG for my birthday. Back then I thought he was the funniest thing since the lady falling and not being able to get up. But that show changed alot for me. During every one of his jokes almost everyone in the crowd was saying his jokes with him. It got real old about 6 jokes in for some and one guy even walked out. Not to mention Dane's opening act (don't remember his name) was funnier then he was.

[Allsmokenopancake 0]

I may have a different definition to "loves this guy"

Does "loves this guy" mean - never get tired of punching his face repeatedly for being unfunny, unoriginal, and thinking that turning suddenly and saying something stupid into a mic is cool. And if I did get tired, I would go home, eat my dinner, restore my energy levels and punch some more.

Is that what "loves this guy" means :)

I hate him, he is (in my opinion) completely over rated.

Billy Connolly, funniest stand up comedian that ever walked, Eddie Murphy in the 80's, Mitch Hedberg, Stephen Lynch, Tommy Tiernan, even Brendan Grace (but is probably unknown over here).

He also steals material

From Louis CK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz3_ZYYE9II

From Demetri Martin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwCiyR4-YLc...feature=related

An article on joke thieves (dane cook gets most of the 2nd page on the article)

http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazi...y_and_run_2.php

Bill hicks on mediocre hacks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFzjXnOqks8...feature=related

[the_game 452]

Dane Cook was never funny.

Check out Daniel Tosh.

[DCott 0]

since we're bashing dane cook:

(Family Guy)

( I don't like Mad TV, but this is spot on)

I used to like him when I first heard of him, but he gets annoying fast.

[dangle 0]

Yeah, he's not funny IMO... rather annoying.

[Law Goalie 147]

Billy Connolly, funniest stand up comedian that ever walked

Correct. Also the hardest.

[Allsmokenopancake 0]

Billy Connolly, funniest stand up comedian that ever walked

Correct. Also the hardest.

The hotel I was working at WAYYYY back (early 90's) hosted him for 3 nights on his tour. Back then, he would do about an hour, take a 15 minute break, do about another hour to two hours. Really great show. But you couldn't open the bar during the show, because it was too noisy (this was true for most performers, Christy Moore, Brendan Grace and various other irish acts that probably still play there unknown to the outside world!!!!).

So we would open the bar for 1 hour before the show, close shutters 5 minutes before showtime, and open during intermission.

Essentially, I got paid to watch him peform, it was great.

One of the guys working the bar was laughing so much that he began hyperventilating, and siezed up, and had to be taken to the hospital. It was the closest I've ever seen anyone come to meeting the phrase "die laughing"

But yes, Connolly is the standard by which I measure all other comics, so far, none have lived up to his name.

My brothers roommate in glasgow has a kid with his daughter. They went to visit her in hospital after she had the kid, and he was there. He said he is just like he is on stage in person. He is a natural storyteller, and they were there for 3 hours, and he is not sure he spoke a single word.

[Tricky4L 0]

I have no respect for anyone that profits from outright plagiarizing material and even less respect for anyone that is too damn lazy to even be conspicuous about it. I've done a few amateur stand up performances locally all ranging from 5-20 minutes at different venues and met a lot of comics and varied levels on the circut. You learn extremely fast that stand-up comedians are a very close knit group both locally and nationally because of the fact that it is so difficult to come up with fresh and genuinely funny material. When someone steals material from someone else, it is such a big deal because 1. it turns the close knit community into a cut throat/middle school drama type environment, 2. makes the stolen joke/bit usually unusable for the original comic. When you spend hours coming up with a great bit that will fit as a perfect transition in your set and some asshat comes and steals the joke to use as a lame and often poorly timed one-liner, its like having someone come into your room and stealing your final term paper, putting their name on it, turning every word that ends in s to z (to be "against the mainstream") and and taking complete credit leaving you totally SOL and with almost no recourse to claim original penmanship.

If you look at Cook's legit material its mostly comprised of observational humor which only gets you so far unless we're back in the early 90's and Jerry Seinfeld still has a show. Having body spasms on stage and screaming the punchline doesn't make a half assed joke any funnier unless your audience isn't really paying attention on your material. The "shocker" hand gesture is a lame professional wrestling ploy that makes the audience feel apart of a collective brand, (see PBS's Frontline: Merchants of Cool for a total explanation of this concept.) The arena venue set up allows the masses to collectively laugh louder because everyone else around them is and since they are all apart of the same "brand" as identified by them throwing up the shocker, they aren't so much laughing at the content but more so going through the motions.

As for repetitive material, it should be noted that it is very rare to see a comic with new material at every gig unless their act is primarily playing on audience participation. The mark of a good comic isn't if they're on Comedy Central because a marketable image and ratings in the 18-25 age bracket is their top priority with little to no emphasis on substance and unfortunately we've seen "get'r'done" "dee-dee-de" and the shocker all come as a result. The fact that these are the clowns that people think of when they think of stand-up comics is completely sickening to me. I'll just end by re-emphasizing this point for the good of comics everywhere, a bad joke is still a bad joke no matter how loud you yell it or how many f**ks you add; riding that type of popularity is LAZY.

[Tailboard Jockey 25]

I have no respect for anyone that profits from outright plagiarizing material and even less respect for anyone that is too damn lazy to even be conspicuous about it. I've done a few amateur stand up performances locally all ranging from 5-20 minutes at different venues and met a lot of comics and varied levels on the circut. You learn extremely fast that stand-up comedians are a very close knit group both locally and nationally because of the fact that it is so difficult to come up with fresh and genuinely funny material. When someone steals material from someone else, it is such a big deal because 1. it turns the close knit community into a cut throat/middle school drama type environment, 2. makes the stolen joke/bit usually unusable for the original comic. When you spend hours coming up with a great bit that will fit as a perfect transition in your set and some asshat comes and steals the joke to use as a lame and often poorly timed one-liner, its like having someone come into your room and stealing your final term paper, putting their name on it, turning every word that ends in s to z (to be "against the mainstream") and and taking complete credit leaving you totally SOL and with almost no recourse to claim original penmanship.

If you look at Cook's legit material its mostly comprised of observational humor which only gets you so far unless we're back in the early 90's and Jerry Seinfeld still has a show. Having body spasms on stage and screaming the punchline doesn't make a half assed joke any funnier unless your audience isn't really paying attention on your material. The "shocker" hand gesture is a lame professional wrestling ploy that makes the audience feel apart of a collective brand, (see PBS's Frontline: Merchants of Cool for a total explanation of this concept.) The arena venue set up allows the masses to collectively laugh louder because everyone else around them is and since they are all apart of the same "brand" as identified by them throwing up the shocker, they aren't so much laughing at the content but more so going through the motions.

As for repetitive material, it should be noted that it is very rare to see a comic with new material at every gig unless their act is primarily playing on audience participation. The mark of a good comic isn't if they're on Comedy Central because a marketable image and ratings in the 18-25 age bracket is their top priority with little to no emphasis on substance and unfortunately we've seen "get'r'done" "dee-dee-de" and the shocker all come as a result. The fact that these are the clowns that people think of when they think of stand-up comics is completely sickening to me. I'll just end by re-emphasizing this point for the good of comics everywhere, a bad joke is still a bad joke no matter how loud you yell it or how many f**ks you add; riding that type of popularity is LAZY.

Good post, Tricky. Reminds me of the Andrew "Dice" Clay phenomenon a few years back.

[dangle 0]

I'll just end by re-emphasizing this point for the good of comics everywhere, a bad joke is still a bad joke no matter how loud you yell it or how many f**ks you add; riding that type of popularity is LAZY.

This is spot on.

I'll take Brian Regan over Dne Cook any day of the week