Is Dane Cook Funny? (897 hits)
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Submitted by Aristides Sweetmeat (View user info) at 2006-10-09 14:52:09 EDT
No.
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Submitted by Wiggles (user info) at 2006-10-10 18:06:49 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Still-Life (user info) at 2006-10-10 17:56:41 EDT (#)
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Dane Cook is hit or miss with me. On occasion he has some particularly funny bits but he isnt someone who can make me laugh consecutively.
Submitted by Confuzitron (user info) at 2006-10-10 01:03:47 EDT (#)
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Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2006-10-09 22:24:12 (#)
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George Carlin is the fucking man.
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Amen. Carlin and Rodney are my personal favorites.
If I had to pick a modern comic, I'd go with Brian Regan or Richard Jeni.
Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2006-10-10 00:48:04 EDT (#)
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holy fuck i actually LOLed and i'm completely sober.
simplicity can do the trick sometimes.
Submitted by Sekeeth (user info) at 2006-10-09 23:21:55 EDT (#)
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I laughed at some of his current material off his newest CD.
-1 for the one word post. Come on man, at least try to type something. Is your keyboard broke?
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2006-10-09 22:39:48 EDT (#)
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He has his hits and his misses. I like the one about the car alarms.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2006-10-09 22:24:12 EDT (#)
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George Carlin is the fucking man.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-10-09 20:52:02 EDT (#)
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So very few comics are actually funny any more. Fat physical comedy is all just rehashes of stuff Fatty Arbuckle was doing 1000 years ago. Skinny: Charlie Chaplan. Facial expressions: Laurel & Hardy. It's all been done. The only area where new ground seems to be gained is in intellectual comedy. Not Dennis Miller knockoff psuedointellectual "I'm smarter than you because I looked up words you didn't", I mean Steven Wright / Emo Phillips / Brian Regan kinds of stuff that actually make you pause and consider before you decide it's funny. Just my opinion - I could be wrong.
Submitted by Hookhand (user info) at 2006-10-09 19:25:30 EDT (#)
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Agreed
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-09 19:01:40 EDT (#)
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Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-10-09 17:20:17 (#)
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I'd say I'm nore Louie Anderson than Chris Farley. I like newsboy hats.
See, Brad, when you try to insult me, you really gotta go for the jugular. Farley was a master of physical comedy. Calling me him is a friggin GOOD thing.
(Oh, and yes, I know I'm fat. That hasn't been a working insult for, oh, 5 years now)
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Calling Farley a "master of physical comedy" is just a nice way of saying he was an annoying fatass, a description which seems to carry over quite well.
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2006-10-09 18:24:54 EDT (#)
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Brian Regan is awesome.
Submitted by EchoBoxing (user info) at 2006-10-09 18:10:21 EDT (#)
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at least you explain yourself
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-10-09 17:20:17 EDT (#)
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I'd say I'm nore Louie Anderson than Chris Farley. I like newsboy hats.
See, Brad, when you try to insult me, you really gotta go for the jugular. Farley was a master of physical comedy. Calling me him is a friggin GOOD thing.
(Oh, and yes, I know I'm fat. That hasn't been a working insult for, oh, 5 years now)
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-09 16:44:16 EDT (#)
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Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-10-09 16:01:04 (#)
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If Brad were a comedian, I'd have to say he's Carrot Top.
He thinks everyone laughs with him, but they're laughing at him.
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If Jay were a comedian, I'd have to say he's Chris Farley.
No further explanation required.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-10-09 16:41:22 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:27:32 (#)
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I laugh at some shit Dane Cook says.
I saw Lewis Black last night and he was fucking amazing. He's hilarious.
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Agreed. Though I think Dane Cook is better looking than he is funny.
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2006-10-09 16:27:47 EDT (#)
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*cough*
Brian Regan
*cough*
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2006-10-09 16:03:57 EDT (#)
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http://messageboard.tuckermax.com/showpost.php?p=344088&postcount=65
First thing's first: Dane Cook's special on HBO was an unqualified disaster because (a) it felt like he had to stretch 50 minutes of material into 90, and (b) he did it in Boston amidst a sea of mouth-breathing cephalopods who LOOOOVE him because they know someone who dated a girl who's stepdad grew up in the house next door to where Dane lived when he was in high school. Blahblahblah.
Second, that LATimes article someone posted on like the first page of this thread is everything that is wrong with criticism of the creative process, generally, and comedy specifically.
This idea that the only way to be legitimately funny and/or talented is by wrenching humor out of the clutches of suicidial depression, alienation, and troubled childhoods is fucking ridiculous. It's so fucking pretentious that to buy into it puts you on the short list of people who will go into the forced agricultural labor camps I will commission once I take over this fucking place.
The point of humor is to entertain and to generate laughter. There's no equation. There's no Right way (capital "R") to do it. If what you say and how you say it makes a lot of people laugh, it means you have the ability to be funny and convey humor. That's more than 99.99% of the idiots on this board can say for themselves.
From an objective standard, is he on par with Murphy, Pryor, Hicks, Rock? No, probably not. It's probably not even close. Is he as good as them at entertaining people and making lots of them laugh? You bet your ass he is...and that has nothing to do with Myspace or the internet or however else he markets himself.
If you don't find him funny, that's fine. He's not for everyone. Right now, I'd put him near the bottom of my Top 20 all-time favorite comics. Given the choice, I can legitimately say I would rather see a dozen or so other people perform before I saw him. But that doesn't mean he's got no talent.
I think his closest analogue in the Pantheon of Revered Comics is Jerry Seinfeld. Seinfeld's comedy had a decidedly positive bent, he laughed and smiled at his own jokes, and he talked about absolutely nothing of any import. The difference between he and Cook is that his comedy was aimed at uptight 30+ urbanites suffering from the disease of mediocrity and unimportance who lived lives where little stuff bugged them hell out of them as well. Cook's is aimed at 20-somethings who haven't learned to be completely miserable yet and haven't given up on life. Cook's audience is still hopeful, they still enjoy the little quirky things in their lives and their pasts. That's why his seemingly mindless bits about Speak n Spell or screeching tires in a parking structure resonate so strongly and generate such positive responses from audiences.
Cook does the same thing Seinfeld did only for a slightly younger generation. No one shits on Seinfeld the way they do Cook.
Ultimately, I understand why so many people get worked up about Cook's departure from the comedy of the last 25-30 years that was based on pain, suffering, alienation, despair, anger, hate. Through the lens of history, it makes Cook's comedy appear frivolous. What those people need to understand, though, is that the last 15 years (give or take) has been the first period since probably the 1920s (and maybe a small segment of years in the mid-to-late 50s) where growing up and coming of age was pretty damn easy. There hasn't been a lot of suffering, or strife, or adversity for large swaths of people across this country. So, when people in their late 30s, 40s, and 50s, see these teens and 20-somethings laugh uproariously at an anecdote from a similarly young guy about seeing a car accident for the first time, it smacks to them of emptiness and frivolity.
Well, sorry old-timers, life just doesn't suck as much as it did when you were growing up. We didn't have a depression, or a Vietnam War, or assassinations and blatant political chicanery, or segregation. We had cable TV, unparalleled economic growth, and an Oakland A's World Series Championship. Life's been pretty fucking good.
You don't have to like Dane Cook, just like young people don't have to like all those whiny middle-aged Jewish comics who complain about not getting laid. But if either of them makes some of us laugh, no one can say either of them has no talent.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-10-09 16:01:04 EDT (#)
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If Brad were a comedian, I'd have to say he's Carrot Top.
He thinks everyone laughs with him, but they're laughing at him.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-10-09 16:00:51 EDT (#)
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Well, at least "Shlongy" was funny once, even if it was a long time ago.
That beats pretty much everyone else on Uber, 1-0.
Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:56:50 EDT (#)
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SOMEONE SHIT IN THE COATS
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:47:32 EDT (#)
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yeah
if you're a 15 year old girl
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:43:22 EDT (#)
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I take that back. Lewis Black is just ok. Not great. Just ok. And a little annoying. Kinda like Spooner or TTOM.
*just kidding, bitches*
On the other hand, Shlongy is like Eddie Murphy's "Delirious". Funny 20 years ago, but showing its age now as the typecast becomes played out.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:37:33 EDT (#)
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I don't like Lewis Black either.
He's annoying to me.
Submitted by FATMANTPK (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:34:47 EDT (#)
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Comedy is subjective. Dane Cook can be funny, but its not something I can listen to very often.
Some like Foxworthy. Others think old comedies are funny (Caddyshack, Animal House, etc). Some will never understand how funny Eddie Murphy "Delirious" was.
Not worth a post
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:33:35 EDT (#)
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Hilarious!
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:27:32 EDT (#)
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I laugh at some shit Dane Cook says.
I saw Lewis Black last night and he was fucking amazing. He's hilarious.
Submitted by BadSamaritan87 (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:26:31 EDT (#)
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Is this a post?
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:26:29 EDT (#)
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Imagine that- I disagree with everyone on Psychodirtboy's list.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:23:59 EDT (#)
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My Top 5
1: Eddie Izzard
2: Bill Hicks
3: Mitch Hedberg
4: Charles Fleischer
5: Steven Wright
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:21:23 EDT (#)
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Submitted by bob (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:14:27 (#)
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yea, Dane Cook is more overrated than Carlos Mencia
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I don't think that's possible. Carlos Mencia fact that Carlos Mencia has his own show when what he truly deserves is a punch in the nose is testament to this.
Oh, Jeanneee: Bill Hicks > Sam Kinison
Submitted by livEvil (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:20:11 EDT (#)
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I don't think he's as bad as people are making him out to be. I saw him live and I laughed my ass off. His movies, on the other hand... are very crappy.
BTW, this was a waste of a post... Try harder next time.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:19:27 EDT (#)
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Fuck Dane Cook. He's about as funny as jgreening, only with less obesity.
Submitted by WingedFoote (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:18:57 EDT (#)
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No
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:18:46 EDT (#)
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A lot of comedians steal from other comedians. Sometimes it's done as a tribute, but other times it's just blatantly ripping them off.
A BUNCH of people rip off Bill Hicks. I've seen Bill Maher do it. I've seen Robin Williams do it. I think I've even seen fucking Carrot Top and Pauly Shore do it.
While Hicks never achieved wide mainstream success in the States because of his in-your-face, controversial style, other comedians loved him.
Submitted by RePet (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:16:28 EDT (#)
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you're right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QVvgMro3D0
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No shit. This was when he was like 22.
As for the post, Dane Cook is very popular and he makes people laugh easily. MANY people love him. If you don't like his routine, don't ruin it for other people, shit-eater.
Submitted by A_D_Sweetmeat (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:16:26 EDT (#)
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Calm the fuck down man. I was only clowning.
No need to get all hyper-sensitive and shit.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:14:41 EDT (#)
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You asked for my opinion, you stupid fucktard.
Maybe if I +2ed you, that wouldn't have happened.
Well, a +2 ain't happening either, asshole.
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:14:27 EDT (#)
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yea, Dane Cook is more overrated than Carlos Mencia
Submitted by A_D_Sweetmeat (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:13:26 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:10:49 (#)
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I don't think he's worth a shit either but then again, neither is this post...
...and neither are you.
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Says the guy who named himself after his flaccid fucking dong.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:10:49 EDT (#)
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I don't think he's worth a shit either but then again, neither is this post...
...and neither are you.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:10:38 EDT (#)
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Not so much. All the funniest comics, the real legends like Kinison, Dangerfield, and Pryor, have been self-loathing head cases. Dane Cook is too "like-me-please" to be truly funny.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:08:40 EDT (#)
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No.
Submitted by WildcatMcGee (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:06:01 EDT (#)
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I listened to a clip online comparing his jokes to jokes another comic did years ago. It seems as though he steals some peoples' jokes.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:05:36 EDT (#)
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Oh, forgot the rating.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:05:06 EDT (#)
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I actually agree.
I never cared much for his style. He's one of those yelly, physical types. Not too jivin' wit me. At least not the way he does it.
If anyone wants to see one of the funniest, most underrated comedians alive, go see Charles Fleischer.
Look him up...Charles Fleischer. You won't regret it. The man is seriously a genius.
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:02:13 EDT (#)
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*has no idea who he is*
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-10-09 15:01:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Death_Metal_Dude (user info) at 2006-10-09 14:55:53 (#)
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you're right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QVvgMro3D0
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ahahahaha
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-10-09 14:59:32 EDT (#)
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I see you're a lot better.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-10-09 14:59:03 EDT (#)
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Bobby Slayton seems to think he's not.
Submitted by Death_Metal_Dude (user info) at 2006-10-09 14:55:53 EDT (#)
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you're right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QVvgMro3D0
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-10-09 14:53:35 EDT (#)
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I'd ask the same question about you and get the same answer.