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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Comedian Dane Cook on The Best Tools For Dealing With Personal Struggles

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Dane Cook, Comedian and Actor, shares his insights on: [2:02] - Why using humor is one of the best ways to deal with your biggest personal challenges [9:33] - How he got a game-winning pick-6 against the legendary Tom Brady [16:13] - His message for anyone struggling to get back up after low moment in their life [19:12] - What it was like to accomplish his childhood dream of hosting SNL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the flavor. I am at the Legendary Sofie Stadium with another legend here. The legendary

0:09.3

Dane Cook. Look at this doctor. Look at this dumb. Look at this place. Can you find

0:13.4

a seat? It needs a fresh coat of paint over here. And this is, it's, it's, it's, there's

0:17.4

nobody here today. No tickets are sold. Charge must be playing. I gotta tell you,

0:25.2

it's a real honor to sit here and have a chat and such an incredible edifice. So good

0:30.4

to be here. Well, it's great to have you and the reason is is that I love comedians, not

0:35.4

just because they're funny, because I really respect intelligence. And now we say if I'm

0:40.7

the smartest one in the room, I'm in the wrong room. And if there's a good comedian in

0:45.8

the room, I'm definitely not the smartest one in the room. Some of the most intelligent

0:49.4

people that I've had on the playbook and I've been blessed to be around are so hyper intelligent

0:55.8

that it's, you know, mind blowing to me how quick a brain can work, not only work, but

1:01.8

work to entertain and to bring joy. And I believe that's the true intent of comedy in

1:09.1

itself and entertaining people as an actor. For you, what inspires you to be funny? Wow,

1:15.2

man. It's well, just to, to intend with what you said, you know, being a stand up

1:19.3

comic, it takes a lot of years to get past the initial, you know, nervousness, whether

1:24.7

it's stage fright, whether it's, you know, are my ideas good enough most of the time?

1:28.8

No. But once you can crack the code and you kind of know your persona, know that character,

1:35.2

then it is quite an incredible experience to tap into everything, whether it's your vulnerability,

1:39.5

being introspective, being absurd, being irreverent, and to be able to have all those things

1:43.8

working in real time off the cuff, oftentimes, you know, you try to be formulaic, somebody's

1:49.0

going to yell something, somebody's going to drop something. And the next thing you know,

1:52.9

everything is happening, you know, in, in the, in the absolute present, you have to pull

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