April 25th first show of his tour. I got extra tickets if someone wants to buy. working on getting a hotel room too.. should be fun. Anyone see him live?

Ive seen him live prob about 6 times. Funny as hell the first 2 times when he was doing tourgasm. The last few times he was horrible, although i got to see all the shows for free since i had to work the shows.

Dane Cook is about as funny as cancer of the kneecap.

Oddly enough, I don't mind him in movies.

The best steak I've ever had was a skirt steak at Mohegan Sun..not sure what the restaurant was called though. The aquarium there is super sweet too, there's a doorway where you can walk under it, which is pretty trippy.

I have to agree with you on this.

Jim Carrey is the same for me. Much better actor than a comedian, although his stand up is way better than Cook's.

Big Dane Cook fan. I have seen him at least 10x...have fun. Im gonna try to make it to the Palms shows.

Still got two extra tickets for the Mohegan Sun show....anyone want to buy?

Never seen him live, but definitely would. I don't understand how people don't find his stuff straight up hilarious.

One of my fave's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtA44oU3yiw

Part of it is because everyone has a different sense of humor, so there will naturally be people who don't like him.

Another part of it is that Cook has been caught plagiarizing other comedians jokes.

Neither of these explains the degree of hatred for Dane Cook.

I think most of it is the bandwagon effect of it being cool to hate the popular guy -- the old "build 'em up, tear 'em down" thing.

I personally find him very funny, he knows how to get mileage from a joke. When his jokes miss, though, they are painfully unfunny.

His bit about owning a sword-wielding monkey is an all-time comedy classic.

Really? Because I find it easy for people to hate a really popular comic who is making money off other people's jokes.


The two biggest things you need to be a good comedian are/is funny, original material and good delivery. I'm with Ron that I like him in movies though. He does have good delivery but has proven to use jokes that aren't his so I'm not going to go to one of his shows or watch one of his specials and "hope" that a joke I find funny is actually his.

He's a good performer, he will do good in comedies. I just think Dane Cook the comedian is a hack.

Nobody steals from other comics more than Carlos Mencia.

OK, good point.... although I do think he performs the jokes better than the original. So think of him as a cover artist.

It is an interesting issue. The consensus is that every comedian is influenced by others, as the professional comedy circuit is a relatively small circle. The question is when "influence" crosses into "stealing". Is using a similar premise stealing if the surrounding material and delivery is completely original? Can the first person who joked about air travel say all subsequent comedians were stealing from him?

I'm not saying Cooks use of other's material is fair, but the parts I've heard are on that line between "outright stealing" and "very strongly influenced." Some jokes are obviously identical, but he will expand the material and make it his own, into a bigger context. Really, that's his thing -- taking a very small incident, and turning it into and over-the-top rambling story.

And in the end, if the first guy gets so-so mileage out of the material, and the second guy hits a home run, which would you rather see?

Agreed that most if not all the jokes he has stolen, he has performed them better than the original. That's like the main reason he is so popular and does well enough in movies. He makes jokes funnier by the way he delivers them, including his own.

One of my fav bits when I saw Dane in Toronto starts about 2:05 of this video.

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