Dane Cook? Funny?

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  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    I think Patton Oswalt has to be included in the best out there at the moment...that "werewolves and lollipops" album is really really good...

  • corsiccorsic oakland, ca 232 Posts
    yeah, I saw him once and he was funny as shit, also REALLY drunk but hilarious. Points taken away for doing that awful King of Queens show though; I guess he's got to pay the bills somehow.

  • ReynaldoReynaldo 6,054 Posts
    He's woman funny.

  • DJFerrariDJFerrari 2,411 Posts
    Funny? Sometimes. Annoying as f*ck? All the time.

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    anyone that makes their whole paycheck from stand-up is funny.

    that's all there is to it.

    even the woman comics, the funny-to-women comics, and the rip-off artists...they're all funny, unfortunately.

    funny enough? I dunno. Dane Cook's made me laugh...but his joke thievery mitigates that...

    very interesting LOL

  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    Wanda Sykes - I still have to see that White House Correspondents' Dinner thing

    I thought there would have been a thread, perhaps there was.

    I watched it and she was pretty good. The "tasteless" stuff she did that everyone got butthurt over was okay, but the stuff about the President playing basketball was really funny.

    I dont think anyone soon will be able to top Colbert's however.

  • Patton Oswalt should be up there as well. His routine about the failure bowl was great. Actually, all of his routines are good.

  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    anyone that makes their whole paycheck from stand-up is funny.

    that's all there is to it.


    Andy Kaufman had a great take on this....

    His theory was that when people pay $$$ to go to a Comedy Show they want to laugh...they EXPECT to laugh...so making them laugh is pretty easy....

    But he said for a comedian to take a crowd that WANTS to laugh and get every last one of them to HATE you...to want to KILL you...now THAT takes talent.....hence his Tony Clifton character which was pure genius.

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    okay, sure...

    but, as you said: people want to laugh at a comedy show.

    seems to be a disconnect (as with a lot of kaufman's life) there: if I show up for "funny" and I get "talented"...

    I'd rather see a sorta funny comedian than The Most Talented Typist or whatever...if I'm paying for comedy...

  • funky16cornersfunky16corners 7,175 Posts
    Patton Oswalt should be up there as well. His routine about the failure bowl was great. Actually, all of his routines are good.


    I love Patton Oswalt. The bit he does about the steakhouse with all of the insane food (a whole, deep fried pumpkin filled with fried scallops!) makes me laugh every time.

    I also ride for Mike Birbiglia, Brian Posehn, David Cross, Dana Gould...

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    that whole Tough Crowd crew are really good: Giraldo hits me prefectly every time; I saw dumbass Vos KILLIT once; even asshole Nick DiPaolo was amazing when I saw him.

    Dudes that are saying exactly what they want: that's the whole point.

    (notice I said "dudes," LOLOLOL*)

    *and yeah I make myself laugh--what of it!

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    Dane Cook is just not funny. He spazzes out and shit, but he doesn't make any hilarious observations or tell any hilarious stories. He just talks about really common shit and delivers it in his annoyingly over-the-top drunken frat boy manner.

    Garbage. I have no idea how he got this far.

    Russell Peters, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. These dudes kill it.

  • GrandfatherGrandfather 2,303 Posts
    jim gaffigan is funny
    eddie murphy standup was dope.

  • GrandfatherGrandfather 2,303 Posts
    dam, i forgot about george lopez, love his standup.

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    nah troop: he's funny.

    he's been hanging around funny people/ stealing from funny people/ osmosing funny shit long enough that he's funny.

    most all these people are all funny.

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    dam, i forgot about george lopez, love his standup.

    yeah bro I know where you been hanging out:
    http://www.oprah.com/dated/oprahshow/oprahshow-20090506-comedy-hour

    comeon bro:
    Mo'Nique?

  • kitchenknightkitchenknight 4,922 Posts
    nah troop: he's funny.

    he's been hanging around funny people/ stealing from funny people/ osmosing funny shit long enough that he's funny.


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    nah dude.

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    nah troop: he's funny.

    ^^^^^^^

    Dane Cook revealed??

    b/w


  • DJFerrariDJFerrari 2,411 Posts
    No love for Zack Galifinakis is this thread?

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    dammit...

    srsly these people are funnier than anyone you will ever meet, know, or be:
    larry the cable guy
    gallagher
    carrot top
    dane cook
    probably mo'nique
    jay leno
    foxworthy
    mensteala

  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    I work with a young dude who was going on about Dane Cook...I said he wasn't the least bit funny so he made me go to Youtube and watch some routine of his about the Kool-Aid Man....even less funny than I had thought...then I found this.....now THIS is funny!!


  • keithvanhornkeithvanhorn 3,855 Posts
    Dane Cook is just not funny.


    this is one of my strongest beliefs in life right now. i don't know if there is a god, but i do know that dane cook is just not funny.

    someone who thinks he is funny please post some proof.

  • keithvanhornkeithvanhorn 3,855 Posts
    No love for Zack Galifinakis is this thread?


    very funny

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    NOT. FUNNY.

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    No love for Zack Galifinakis is this thread?

    see: I have him in the Funny Song Guy category...I think he does more, but that's where I saw him first.

    ...and I don't like Funny Song Guys.

    Much like people (perhaps in this thread) get super-purist with their comedy acceptance levels, I draw lines with funny songs. I've convinced myself that music is unfuckwittable, and while you can be funny IN your songs, you cannot use songs to merely be funny. Those are my rules.

    so, for me:
    Flight of Conchords Paul Barman Weird Al--these are my Dane Cooks. I will fight to the death...for no reason...but, still... hate that shit.

  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    dammit...

    srsly these people are funnier than anyone you will ever meet, know, or be:
    larry the cable guy
    gallagher
    carrot top
    dane cook
    probably mo'nique
    jay leno
    foxworthy
    mensteala

    You have appallingly bad taste in comedians.

  • Yaakov Smirnoff!
    No wait...

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    dammit...

    srsly these people are funnier than anyone you will ever meet, know, or be:
    larry the cable guy
    gallagher
    carrot top
    dane cook
    probably mo'nique
    jay leno
    foxworthy
    mensteala

    You have appallingly bad taste in comedians.


  • GrandfatherGrandfather 2,303 Posts
    dammit...

    srsly these people are funnier than anyone you will ever meet, know, or be:
    larry the cable guy
    gallagher
    carrot top
    dane cook
    probably mo'nique
    jay leno
    foxworthy
    mensteala

    You have appallingly bad taste in comedians.
    i think duke is trying to say that because those dudes make a living being a comedian, they're funny but I dont buy that shit.
    Yeah, they're funny to some people but here, where we decide taste, they suck.

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    dammit...

    srsly these people are funnier than anyone you will ever meet, know, or be:
    larry the cable guy
    gallagher
    carrot top
    dane cook
    probably mo'nique
    jay leno
    foxworthy
    mensteala

    You have appallingly bad taste in comedians.

    huh?

    My Current Favorites:
    Louis CK (by a longshot)
    Greg Giraldo
    "Birbiglia."
    Todd Barry

    all the bald white dudes pretty much.

    ...

    the list above: I probably wouldn't pay to watch any of their acts. I used that amazing list to show just how much I believe any "pro" comedians are, by default, funny.

    Even that David Cross quote about Dane Cook: he stops short of saying that dude isn't funny... Not in his definition of "good" funny--but I bet he'd have to admit that these are funny people.
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