Dane Cook Never Wanted to Be a ‘Frat Comic’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Dane Cook was, for a brief time in the mid-2000s, the most popular comedian on the planet. Then, as the rockstar cliche goes, it all came crashing down. It turns out his story is more complicated than that, as he lays out in this episode. We talk about his humble Boston beginnings, why he turned down the chance to replace Adam Sandler on SNL and how he has continued to push himself as a stand-up comic with his first special in over a decade on the horizon. Cook also opens up about his joke-stealing feud with Louis C.K., his own “cancel culture” moment and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | So, I know today's guest has a ton of haters, but I'm not afraid to admit that when I first saw this bit on TV growing up, it made me laugh harder than almost anything else I'd ever seen. |
| 0:15.1 | Monopoly. There's another one we had. We have Monopoly. Everybody did. Nobody liked it. |
| 0:21.1 | Everybody had it. |
| 0:22.2 | Even if you think you liked the game, you didn't. |
| 0:24.8 | And it's simple why, ready? |
| 0:26.2 | Because this is anybody here, |
| 0:27.6 | two and a half hours |
| 0:28.5 | in a game of Monopoly. |
| 0:29.4 | Ready? |
| 0:30.1 | Fuck this game. |
| 0:32.5 | It's four in the morning, Grandma. |
| 0:34.2 | You win! |
| 0:40.3 | This is the Last Laugh! |
| 0:42.3 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was the one and only, Dane Cook. |
| 0:48.3 | Here's the deal. I have been totally fascinated by Dane's comedy career, ever since I found out that we both went |
| 0:54.9 | to the same high school in Arlington, Massachusetts. Dane graduated 12 years before me, so |
| 1:01.0 | by the time I was there, he was already becoming one of the most successful stand-up comedians |
| 1:06.4 | of all time. I've wanted to have him on this podcast for a long time, and I was so happy that we |
| 1:12.3 | were finally able to make it happen, just as he's gearing up to tape his first stand-up special |
| 1:17.3 | in more than 10 years at the Wang Theater in Boston later this month. Dane is definitely a |
| 1:24.2 | complicated figure in the comedy world, beloved by many of the frat boy fans who grew up |
| 1:29.4 | with him and loathed by others who view him as everything that was wrong with the hyper-masculine |
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