Dane Cook is the best

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
He has his moments. When he combined Mortal Kombat with cunnilingus during the "Viscious Circle" show I nearly fell off of the couch.

And I'm sorry...I don't buy into the "You have to be an ugly, sad, bitter, miserable piece of sh!t to be funny" bit.

Not everyone likes their comedians to be alcoholic chain smokers that bitch on incessantly about how much their life sucks and complain about how everyone around them is an idiot.

i'm with you. The " You have to be an ugly, sad, bitter, miserable piece of sh!t to be funny" line makes no sense to me. If you're funny, you're funny. Doesn't have to do with what kind of person you are.

I wouldn't say he's the best. I can't say who the best would be because i don't watch much stand-up.

I've onyl seen dane cook once on tv and i have one of his cds on mp3. most of it was funny to me.

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: davestar

i'm trying to think of an economic way to explain why i think cook is a poor comic. while i agree with the thesis of the Times article (Cook sucks), i think it gets many things wrong (comedy has to come from strife, comedians should be standoff-ish, etc). however, the following line cuts to the truth of the matter:

"[Hedburg] feared the very thing at which Cook excels ? tearing down the wall between the audience and himself but he loved that which Cook doesn't: the economy, the importance, of words."

cook is an entertaining and likeable - even enviable - guy. he's gregarious, decent-looking, and never awkward. he's popular for the same reasons that homecoming king is popular.

cook takes the goofy thoughts that you've had all your life, amplifies them, and acts them out like a monkey. rather than talent, i think that takes a lack of fear that comes from being super-duper likeable/popular. hedburg's goofy thoughts, contrastingly, are nothing that would've idly popped into my head. he's creative and meticulous with his word choice. his material stands on its own whereas cook's needs hair gel, a tight shirt, and a meticulously unkempt beard.

that's very well said.

regardless, I still like Dane Cook, though Hedberg is undeniably my favorite.

 

[brandonbull]

I think him with Jessica Simpson is very telling. Both are perfect for each other. Overhyped, undertalented, Ryan Seacrest, MTV, Top-40 crap.

 

[archiloco]

i have to be in the right mood to listen to dane cook. i recently started to listen to some of his early stuff and it has some fairly geeky references, like star trek, star wars, video games. i guess he feels he's too cool to be a geek now, and barely makes any references to that now