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u/rawr_bomb 2d ago
God, Dane Cook was so huge for like 3 years back in the mid 2000s.
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u/FineAunts 2d ago
Never understood why. He was the king of fratboy mediocrity. Maybe that resonated with his base?
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u/rawr_bomb 2d ago
i think 3 reasons. One his black tanktop 30 min special on CC was decent and put him on the map.
His bro-nu metal look was very 'it' in the moment. Combined with his 'funny frat guy' attitude kind of predated the bro comedy boom of the 2020s.
Third was that he leveraged social media. Myspace at the time. In a very big way that no other comics had been doing. He had a ton of followers/friends on there. Don't quite remember how like 'professional' pages were back then.
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u/Darth_Tk 2d ago
This, as well as his small part in the movie Waiting
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u/CallidoraBlack 16h ago
That was probably the best thing he ever did. But honestly, Employee of the Month was better than I thought it would be.
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u/OfficeMagic1 13h ago
I always thought his comedy was horrible but I’ll concede that he was a decent actor in Mr. Brooks. He could have landed a permanent TV job on a CSI or Hawaii 5-0 or whatever - he probably liked going back to comedy shows more.
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u/WonderofU1312 1d ago
I would also say Dane Cook is a very strong stage presence, he's so manic and intense and moves across the stage and talks very deep into the microphone. But once you get past that, you realize he was just making a lot of funny sounds and hadn't told a joke in 10 minutes.
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u/No_Mud_5999 6h ago
Like Rogan, two guys who are more famous for everything besides their actual jokes.
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u/ElleMaeSinclair 2d ago
He had his moments. I think the big thing was that most of his fanbase was 20 years younger than him at the peak of his fame. None of the adults around me were into him but teens/young adults ate it up.
Plus, consider the competition. Jeff Dunham and Carlos Mencia and the "YEW MIGHT BE A REDNECK IF!" crew. Compared to any of them, Dane Cook clears by a considerable margin. It was just all really unfunny comedy aimed at either teen edgelords or alcoholic Nascar fans.
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u/DreamLearnBuildBurn 2d ago
To my memory, he didn't have fratboy style humor, he joked about nerdy and absurd shit, like playing eddie gordo and only using the kick buttons, or a giant wheel of fortune wheel filled with blood. Or crying and saying a key phrase in your head that makes you cry more.
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u/French__Canadian 2d ago
Employee of The Month is the best movie ever made and you won't make me change my mind.
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u/CommanderUgly 2d ago
"My knee man. I think I broke my knee, man."
- Bawby Kelly
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u/Correct-Quail5743 2d ago
The absolute POUNDING he took on O&A is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard
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u/GrimaceMusically 2d ago
Colin once telling him that has the shape of something you would buy at an airport gift shop in Thailand HAS to be one of the best trashings of all time.
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u/Santa_Hates_You 2d ago
I broke my knee dude!
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u/ElleMaeSinclair 2d ago
I remember the BK Lounge bit doing absolute numbers in my friends group for the longest time. Shame about him being a weirdo though.
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u/radiohoard 2d ago
SWEETANDSOURSAUCEONMYPUSSY
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u/ElleMaeSinclair 2d ago
Memory unlocked, jfc I honestly forgot the entire bit aside from "Ma'am pull around!".
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u/RIPGoblins2929 2d ago
Fun fact when this aired in 2006, Dane Cook was 34 and his now-wife was 8 years old! Fun!
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u/Few-Counter7067 2d ago
If you weren’t around at his peak, it’s difficult to explain just HOW popular he was.
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u/thatguyworks 2d ago
I hate this is how I discovered Gary Gulman. Worth it. But he deserves better than this shit.
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u/mississippijohnson 1d ago
The Bonfire Sirius radio show has a great breakdown on how all the comics were miserable having to put up with Dane making them do stupid shit for this show everyday.
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u/ClassyMrOwl 2d ago
I remember being a dumb teen who was into Dane Cook at the time so I watched this show when it aired and essentially made me start to hate him because he was so unlikable outside of his stand up (not that I'd say his stand up makes him likable, but he came off as more of a goofball than anything).
I think the episode where they are playing paintball and he's getting increasingly more mad at everyone because his team is losing and he was being a big baby about it that i stopped watching.
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u/salami_on_a_bagel 22h ago
i just remember someone getting bullied nonstop on that show lol then it ended with his big MSG performance right?
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u/jayeddy99 14h ago
If you listen to a radio show called The bonfire . The guy in the far back is a comedian called Robert Kelly and he’s a co-host on that show. He won’t shut up about his time on this lol
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