Dane Cook On Dealing With Hate, Dave Chappelle, His New Special "Above It All"

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Dane Cook (@danecook) is a stand-up comedian and actor known for starring in movies like Waiting, Good Luck Chuck, My Best Friend's Girl and Employee Of The Month. He sits down in person with Chris Van Vliet in Hollywood, CA to talk about his new comedy special called "Above It All", why he funded it himself, what he's learned from doing comedy for 32 years, how he was able to use MySpace and the Internet early on to grow a fanbase and explode his popularity, why he feels a lot of comedians were jealous of him, why it became cool to dislike him and much more! For more information on Dane Cook's new comedy special "Above It All" go to: http://danecook.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about Chris Van Vliet and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All systems are going.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blea.
0:07.7	All right, my friends, welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.
0:12.4	I'm CVV Chris Van Fleet.
0:14.3	It's episode number 401.
0:18.1	Wow.
0:19.1	Thank you for all the nice messages, by the way, that you sent last week when we hit that milestone of 400 episodes.
0:26.5	And we started the show in June of 2019.
0:29.6	So 400, I feel like it's just flown by.
0:33.8	But so glad you're back with us on this one, or perhaps this is your first episode.
0:37.4	So happy that you're here with us.
0:39.8	We've got 400 more after this, and then another 400 after that.
0:43.7	And then another 400 after that, and you get the point here.
0:47.1	If you're around my age, then you grew up with Dane Cook, and you know how much of a massive
0:52.5	influence he was in the mid-2000s. I mean, there was a
0:56.4	point during that time when he was the biggest comedian on the planet. And that led to a bunch
1:02.4	of movies that he starred in like Employee of the Month. Good luck Chuck, my best friend's girl.
1:07.8	And now he has a new comedy special. It's out on October 5th called Above It
1:13.2	All. You can pre-order it now on his website, damecook.com. And it's really different from any other
1:19.8	comedy special that you've ever seen before. First of all, he shot it at his house in the Hollywood
1:24.9	Hills. So, like, title is above it all. They're quite literally
1:28.7	like above it all with the view and everything there. So that's obviously different, but
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