Curse of Dane Cook

[B]

Dane Cook is awesome. :?

[ConstableRabbit]

The problem with Cook is, "WHERE ARE THE JOKES?"

 

His act consists of (probably completely made-up) stories about himself and him pacing back and forth talking in a weird voice. Tell some jokes!

[TruffleShuffle]

to quote IMB about the Cubs actober commercial:

 

Seriously though, Dane Cook ruins it for me.

[C.C.]

He's going to be one of those comics that is huge for a couple of years and then *poof* he's gone. Ala Dice Clay....

[Handlebar McSkullet]

to quote IMB about the Cubs actober commercial:

 

Seriously though, Dane Cook ruins it for me.

 

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/7/b/9/7b94a870ef598750fdb33bf43a681f98.jpg

[Omar]

Now there's a Yankees commercial...

 

http://www.actober.com/Commercials.aspx

 

Also, half the clips in the Cubs video are from the Dusty years.

[BigSlick]

do you think i'm funny if I

 

TALK LIKE THIS ?

[Post Count Padder]

Before he got big, he was pretty funny. Now that he's everywhere and all my friends constantly repeat lines from his stand up, I haven't liked him as much. He still has his moments, and can be funny, but he is far from the best comedian out there.

 

On a related note, the actober commercails are annoying and if not for Jessica Alba, good Luck Chuck looks like garbage.

[AllStarMe]

 

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000009QI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

 

Bill Hicks is one of my all-time faves, a huge firebrand and scathingly brilliant. One of the most underrated and influential. Dennis Leary has Hicks' anger, but not the disarming wit, nor does he seems as nice a person, at least going by his writings and albums. I think the standup that David Cross has done is very reminiscient of Bill Hicks, if more in the subject matter and sentiment than in delivery.

 

Some current or recent comedians I find funnier than Dane Cook:

Zach Galifiniakis

Patton Oswalt

Mitch Hedberg (RIP)

David Cross

George Carlin

Steven Wright

Demitri Martin

Eddie Izzard

Tim and Eric (Their live show was insane)

Maria Bamford

Lewis Black

Mike Birbiglia

Dave Chapelle

Emo Phillips

Jim Gaffigan

Stephen Lynch

at least 3 people I saw at an open mic tonight (seriously)

 

And a few comics that are worse than Dane Cook:

Carlos Mencia

Nick DiPaulo

Rich Vos

Lisa Lampanelli

Larry the Cable Guy

Jeff Foxworthy (the other 2 blue collar guys are tolerable)

Gilbert Gottfried

Any fat comedian whose only material is about being fat

 

kinda moved off-topic from the MLB playoff promos... split to Social?

[Drew Doughty]

Nick DiPaolo is maybe the worst comedian ever. the guy is awful.

 

bromedian is a terrific description of dane cook though. i bet he chills with his bros and natty light on the weekends. probably plays some gamecube (OR GC I BET HE CALLS IT GC) while he chillaxes.

 

on a sidenote, everyone should go to youtube and watch the "bro rape" video by derrickcomedy. it's terrific.

[inari]

Yeah... I really like our commercial.

[pitchcs]

Dane Cook co-starred with Dennis Rodman in "Simon Sez", funny stuff.

 

What a seriously unfunny and bad acting man.

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

i saw Dane Cook on the Tourgasm tour (in an arena with 20,000+ people) and he was very funny. that said, he's pretty played out right now

 

Yeah, I saw Tourgasm as well. I think he was the 2nd best comedian there though. I don't think what he did at Tourgasm was his best stuff. A lot of people hate him and I don't understand why. Yeah, he's kind of obnoxious and I don't like his on stage antics all that much, but a lot of his stuff is actually funny. I think a lot of people overrate him, but I also think a lot of people severly underrate him. I can't listen to his Harmful if Swallowed CD and not crack up.

 

Agreed...it becomes cool to smash someone once:

 

1. they blow up in popularity amongst teens

 

and

 

2. they're louder than some people like.

 

I thought Vicious Circle was pretty funny actually.

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

i saw Dane Cook on the Tourgasm tour (in an arena with 20,000+ people) and he was very funny. that said, he's pretty played out right now

 

Yeah, I saw Tourgasm as well. I think he was the 2nd best comedian there though. I don't think what he did at Tourgasm was his best stuff. A lot of people hate him and I don't understand why. Yeah, he's kind of obnoxious and I don't like his on stage antics all that much, but a lot of his stuff is actually funny. I think a lot of people overrate him, but I also think a lot of people severly underrate him. I can't listen to his Harmful if Swallowed CD and not crack up.

 

I've found that most people that can't stand him do so because it's pretty clear he's a joke thief a la Carlos Mencia. Cook has ripped off so much of Louis CK's act that it should be criminal. You pull out all of the bits that he's stolen and you're left with a guy braying like a jackass and bragging about his MySpace page.

 

Joke stealing is common as hell...every big comedian ever has probably stolen one or two jokes from a guy/girl no one ever heard of...sh*t happens really.

 

And not that I'm a fan of either Cook or Mencia...but I heard one joke Mencia stole from Bill Cosby and it actually ended up being more funny...and Cook's "stolen material" is more topical than it is the actual joke.

[Sammy Sofa]

i saw Dane Cook on the Tourgasm tour (in an arena with 20,000+ people) and he was very funny. that said, he's pretty played out right now

 

Yeah, I saw Tourgasm as well. I think he was the 2nd best comedian there though. I don't think what he did at Tourgasm was his best stuff. A lot of people hate him and I don't understand why. Yeah, he's kind of obnoxious and I don't like his on stage antics all that much, but a lot of his stuff is actually funny. I think a lot of people overrate him, but I also think a lot of people severly underrate him. I can't listen to his Harmful if Swallowed CD and not crack up.

 

I've found that most people that can't stand him do so because it's pretty clear he's a joke thief a la Carlos Mencia. Cook has ripped off so much of Louis CK's act that it should be criminal. You pull out all of the bits that he's stolen and you're left with a guy braying like a jackass and bragging about his MySpace page.

 

Joke stealing is common as hell...every big comedian ever has probably stolen one or two jokes from a guy/girl no one ever heard of...sh*t happens really.

 

And not that I'm a fan of either Cook or Mencia...but I heard one joke Mencia stole from Bill Cosby and it actually ended up being more funny...and Cook's "stolen material" is more topical than it is the actual joke.

 

I'm not saying you're not gonna get jokes ripped off here or there or that it's impossible to have instances of "parallel writing," but it goes beyond that with guys like Mencia and Cook and Leary and the mother of all joke thieves, Robin Williams. They steal entire jokes and routines often almost wholesale and then to pass them off as their own with little to no change...and then they do it again and again. It's happened so often with these guys that to anyone even just paying a little bit of attention that's it clear it's not just an accident or a coincidence. And these kinds of talk and accusations against these guys have been around well before they got their big breaks and became ultra-famous. Williams was so bad with it that people would stop and walk of stage mid-set if they saw him come in the room. People like Joe Rogan and George Lopez were calling out Mencia well before he got his show simply because he was such a notorious hack and it was pissing people off. Leary got a LOT of crap right before and after Bill Hicks died for practically lifting Hicks' entire routines, and this was before Leary got his break as "the rant guy" on MTV. Cook got the same accusations levelled at hime for ripping off guys like Louis CK.

 

And yet, the typical response is that people who say these things or don't like him because of it are just "jealous of his success" or "don't like him because he's popular." That's such a cop-out. Look at all the other comedians that have a ton of success and are very popular (even with the dreaded "young folk") and don't have anything like this said about them. It doesn't make any sense to brush off the criticisms of Cook as meaningless when it's not like that kind of response is par for the course with most other famous comedians.

 

Besides, it's incredibly easy to hate Cook just for doing garbage like this alone:

 

http://wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=2882

[AllStarMe]

Besides, it's incredibly easy to hate Cook just for doing garbage like this alone:

 

http://wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=2882

 

Well that is certainly the funniest/scariest/lamest thing I've seen all day, thank you very much.

 

Holy crap, wow. I had no idea he sang. Maybe Jessica Simpson told him "crossover star" is the way to go.