Dane Cook, you're not funny

[Clubber_Slang]

On the heels of Mr. Dane Cook's recent, long-winded display of his best comic wits on his HBO special (if you missed, don't worry, it's on at some point every freakin' day), I feel it is the right time to make this declaration: Dane Cook is not funny.

I don't know if anyone here thinks he is. For all I know, I'm preaching to the choir on this. If so, my bad.

Anyway, I'd never seen or heard any of Cook's material until his Monday night special. I had heard much about him, from his romancing of Jessica Simpson, to his fledging movie career and mostly about how funny his stand-up was.

Mostly, I was hearing this from high-school-aged kids, white girls and frat-boy types, so I generally dismissed all that jive. I wasn't like "Yo, I need to check this dude out right now."

But since he was on HBO and I pay $30 a month to have that **** and "Entourage" ain't on anymore, I figured I'd check out what the Great Dane was talking about. It was bland and predictable. I chuckled a few times. But none of his jokes have stuck in my head.

At least I understand the appeal. There's not really a young, good-looking white boy comic, who hits the general audience, not just the hillbilly crowd. Cook fills the need.

Just not the hype.

 

[Angola!]

On the heels of Mr. Dane Cook's recent, long-winded display of his best comic wits on his HBO special (if you missed, don't worry, it's on at some point every freakin' day), I feel it is the right time to make this declaration: Dane Cook is not funny.

I don't know if anyone here thinks he is. For all I know, I'm preaching to the choir on this. If so, my bad.

Anyway, I'd never seen or heard any of Cook's material until his Monday night special. I had heard much about him, from his romancing of Jessica Simpson, to his fledging movie career and mostly about how funny his stand-up was.

Mostly, I was hearing this from high-school-aged kids, white girls and frat-boy types, so I generally dismissed all that jive. I wasn't like "Yo, I need to check this dude out right now."

But since he was on HBO and I pay $30 a month to have that **** and "Entourage" ain't on anymore, I figured I'd check out what the Great Dane was talking about. It was bland and predictable. I chuckled a few times. But none of his jokes have stuck in my head.

At least I understand the appeal. There's not really a young, good-looking white boy comic, who hits the general audience, not just the hillbilly crowd. Cook fills the need.

Just not the hype.

Is it bad to admit that I have no idea who he is and I would not recognize him in a lineup of you, me and him?

 

[Clubber_Slang]

Naw, it's all good.

 

[Columbo]

On the heels of Mr. Dane Cook's recent, long-winded display of his best comic wits on his HBO special (if you missed, don't worry, it's on at some point every freakin' day), I feel it is the right time to make this declaration: Dane Cook is not funny.

I don't know if anyone here thinks he is. For all I know, I'm preaching to the choir on this. If so, my bad.

Anyway, I'd never seen or heard any of Cook's material until his Monday night special. I had heard much about him, from his romancing of Jessica Simpson, to his fledging movie career and mostly about how funny his stand-up was.

Mostly, I was hearing this from high-school-aged kids, white girls and frat-boy types, so I generally dismissed all that jive. I wasn't like "Yo, I need to check this dude out right now."

But since he was on HBO and I pay $30 a month to have that **** and "Entourage" ain't on anymore, I figured I'd check out what the Great Dane was talking about. It was bland and predictable. I chuckled a few times. But none of his jokes have stuck in my head.

At least I understand the appeal. There's not really a young, good-looking white boy comic, who hits the general audience, not just the hillbilly crowd. Cook fills the need.

Just not the hype.

Is it bad to admit that I have no idea who he is and I would not recognize him in a lineup of you, me and him?

Imagine watching Ben Affleck in Gigli... just on stage.

 

[GB-Hack]

Obviously not from the previous post, and I'd have to say well done at avoiding it.

I think the main reason he gets all the hype is he'll pretty much do anything to get an audience. Any chat show, any radio spot, feel free to call and he'll appear, which everyone appreciates and then hypes up what a great guy he is without mentioning his show is barely above average.

He's certainly no Eddie Izzard......

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

On the heels of Mr. Dane Cook's recent, long-winded display of his best comic wits on his HBO special (if you missed, don't worry, it's on at some point every freakin' day), I feel it is the right time to make this declaration: Dane Cook is not funny.

I found this out around a year ago when I discovered Dane Cook.

I was at a party -- actually I was kinda throwing the party -- and many 20somethings attended. One of them brought this Dane Cook DVD. All the other 20somethings were overjoyed that someone brought a Dane Cook DVD. So they gathered around to watch it after several drinks. And laughed and laughed and laughed.

I sat there. I looked at my friends who were helping throw the party. They looked at me. None of us laughed. Things we said, our jokes at the moment, were funnier than Dane Cook's jokes.

But he's more handsome than any of us, so that's why he wins.

 

[Clubber_Slang]

I sat there. I looked at my friends who were helping throw the party. They looked at me. None of us laughed. Things we said, our jokes at the moment, were funnier than Dane Cook's jokes.

But he's more handsome than any of us, so that's why he wins.

I think you're right on with that. My girlfriend kinda liked him, cuz she thought he was hot. But I sat there thinking, damn, some of my homies tell better stories than this dude.

 

[Clubber_Slang]

He's definitely no Andrew Dice Clay as far as a whitey comedian.

I won't waste time comparing him to some of the true greats like Sam Kinison and George Carlin, as far as whiteys go.

Seriously, he's been on Jimmy Kimmel, a guy at work has him uploaded on his ITunes and recommended I listen . . . . but I just don't think he's funny. Maybe he's not in your face enough for me, based on my tastes.

Yeah, he's definitely not up there with the dudes you named. But I was more specifically talking about younger whitey comics, which there's not that many of ... big ones at least.


On a sidenote:
It's funny to me to see so many people hating on Carlos Mencia these days. I understand it's cool to do. His show really isn't that good. But I saw him a few weekends ago in the Bay Area and he was hilarious as always doing his stand-up. A lot of the same types of people hatin on Carlos are the same ones trying to hype up Dane. I dunno. I don't get it.

 

[zeke12]

I don't think Carlos Mencia OR Dane Cook is funny.

Dane Cook's HBO show sucked worse than anything I've ever tried to watch.

 

[jgmacg]

This piece makes some sense of it.


http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2006/09/03/dane_cook/index.html

 

[pallister]

Dane Cook's HBO show sucked worse than anything I've ever tried to watch.

Worse than a George Bush press conference?

Worse than a 2005 Packers game?

 

[Starman]

He's definitely no Andrew Dice Clay as far as a whitey comedian.

I won't waste time comparing him to some of the true greats like Sam Kinison and George Carlin, as far as whiteys go.

Seriously, he's been on Jimmy Kimmel,

Which immediately sets the odds at about 97% that his schtick consists of Kimmelesque snarky, snotty, snooty fratboy s******ing.

Just what the world needs absolutely no more of.

 

[Space Monkey]

I liked Dane Cook when I first saw him on TV and heard his Retaliation CD.

But the HBO special wasn't funny. I actually fell asleep watching it — on Tuesday afternoon.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

His HBO series, Tourgasm was horrendous...

I've seen some of his specials and thought they were funny. But they're not nearly as funny as people seem to think. He's a mediocre comedian. He's not terrible, but he's incredibly fan friendly and he has one of the most loyal fan bases around. Hell, having a comedy album as a top 10 seller is unheard of... I think I read somewhere that Steve Martin in 1978 was the last one to do it...

I've seen Jim Norton, Artie Lange, Patton Oswalt and David Cross in concert within the last few years and all of them are about 1,000X funnier than Cook.

 

[fmrsped]

OK, I'll say it. Dane Cook is funny. I like him.

There, I said it.

He was very funny on Attell's Insomniac Tour (available on YouTube for the haters).

 

[Precious Roy]

I'll have to agree you, I think Dane is a funny little *****. Not quite as funny as Lewis Black, but damn funny

 

[farmerjerome]

Ugh, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this guy is a douche.

One of the kids that I work with said you can't be in her group of friends if you don't like Dane Cook.

I won't be haning out with her anytime soon.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I've seen Carlos Mencia in concert and he's as good as anyone... When he got his show on Comedy Central I wanted to like it so badly, but it just wasn't very good... I think if Chappelle had come back, Mencia's show would have been canceled.

A bulk of Cook's success is due to his availability to his fans. How many A-list comedians sign autographs for three hours after concerts? That breeds loyalty and it's something other comedians/singers etc... need to pick up on...

Plus women love him and for a comedian, that's pretty rare...

 

[Pastor]

I saw one of his acts about a year or so ago on Comedy Central. It wasn't that funny. Then with all the talk recently, I was asking "Who the hell is Dane Cook?" Finally, after seeing a poster of him, I remembered.

I didn't see his HBO act. I don't know what really draws the fans in. To me, he's just not very funny.

 

[Ledbetter]

He's got some funny material but I think he could do a beter job delivering it. He tries to be too funny instead of letting the jokes earn the laughs.