His amazing lack of jokes combined with his ability to run around the stage like a five-year-old without his meds appeals to anyone without a soul or any knowledge of comedy. His trite and obvious observations contain no punchlines and often appeal to people with short attention spans. You ever go into the bathroom and everything is WET? The floor is wet! The counters are wet! Everything's wet! I just took a massive Dane Cook. And the argument he makes in Louie is a pretty good one.
And passion is something that Dane Cook brings to shows. His whole body is used as a prop to sell bits; he devours the stage with a kind of relaxed athleticism and he bombards the crowd with his contagious enthusiasm. Dane Cook famously used MySpace to connect with fans and network in a way that had previously been unheard of.
Through those connections, he was able to grow a sizeable fan base in a relatively short amount of time. In other words, Cook hustled. However, learning those things is just as important. Heck, you might be doing it now and may not even be aware of it. We all want to be recognized by our talent, however if no one sees that talent, then the point is moot. And let it be known that I am absolutely hypocritical in giving this advice.
I have a difficult time asserting myself for anything. Say what you will about Cook, but he is not someone who is afraid to put himself out there. The plagiarism claims were just the start of a series of setbacks that pushed Cook off his trajectory. Less than a year after that, his father, George, died of pancreatic cancer at Cook, who says he has never taken a drink of alcohol or done a single drug, notes he and his father became close in the years prior to his death but were at odds most of his life because George was an alcoholic.
The two have not spoken since Darryl was released. There were a few missteps along the way, and Cook owns them. I wrote an apology letter to the casting director because they were upset. Cook issued an apology shortly after cell phone footage leaked of the moment.
Cook went on tour again in , did a Showtime special and took some acting jobs in the bomb Days and on Starz series American Gods — but during the past five years, he mostly has stayed out of the limelight save for directing a recent short film, American Typecast , which screened at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. But I have never had somebody in my life who is so kind and caring. I hope it goes the distance. The comic had tried to repair relations with C.
He finds an interesting middle ground between gimmick and delivery, as his force-of-nature stage persona allows him to field average jokes for an unbelievable audience reaction.
The reliance on gimmick is reminiscent of a Carrot Top for the MySpace generation, a Fonz for an era of bloggers to sneer at for jumping the shark by merely existing. Dane appeals to our teenage desire to have a cool friend. He has great hair, a powerful jawline, and a demeanor that makes audiences want to listen. Like the oncoming wave of reality that is a High School graduation and eventual invalidation of everything held dear during our teens, cynicism regarding Cook is a bit of a steep cliff.
He's the guy who gives a year-old a cigarette and tells him a story about the time he got caught smoking weed, but the cops let him go. As we age, the sort of story that impresses us tends to appeal to a more cynical aspect of our humor. We don't laugh at the hero story, and gauge earrings start to become less and less cool. Louis CK recently produced an episode of his TV show addressing allegations of Cook's joke theft, and his conclusions are vaguely concrete.
The conclusion Louis reaches is that whether or not the comedian stole his material, the result is the same. Dane Cook's success is almost exclusively based upon his mass-market appeal, and if a joke about itchy assholes hadn't crept into his subconscious: His success would still be assured.
He's certainly no Carlos Mencia , but the joke thievery is a symptom to the overbearing issue the media collectively takes with Cook. Dane Cook is the polar opposite of the prototypical standup comic. He's unassuming, self-satisfied, and maintains a positive lifestyle. Historically, comedians tend to either be appealingly broken or enticingly cynical and Cook fits neither mold.
His rise was caused not by his satirical wit, but by the fact that people like him.
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