Dane Cook Research Paper

Many people know him as the funny and rugged face of comedy. He is Dane Cook. Sort of the anti-Mitch Hedberg. For others, he is a posterboy for an altogether different type of comedy: the plagiarizer, the man without a punchline. Personally, I have long held that Dane Cook is a performer and not a stand up comedian, in the way that Bob Villa was a TV show host and not a licensed contractor. For the better part of a decade, you couldn't be handed a transcript of a Dane Cook set, read it, and think it was funny. There just weren't any JOKES in the conventional sense, just a lot of stage direction and exclamation points where the punchlines should be. This technique, of course, has made Dane very successful, frequently selling out stadiums and
Then, almost as quickly, Dane disappeared. Well, that's not exactly true. Under the social surface, Dane was as busy as ever, but with different priorities. Within nine months of one another, both of his parents succumbed to cancer, and the online shit talkers began to outnumber the fans. As Dane himself says on his new CD release and corresponding special: "I googled myself, and after four and a half hours even I said 'this Dane Cook' is a douchebag". The road to ISolated INcident has certainly been a long one, with more than enough emotional detours along the way. But at the end of the journey, it certainly seems like Dane has emerged a better performer and (maybe) even a comedian for a change. For the making of ISolated INcident, Dane had to step back from the persona he had become in public and on the stages he had grown to find so comfortable. He began dropping back in at small nightclubs across the country - indeed ISolated INcident was recorded right here in Los Angeles - and trying out new, more intelligent jokes, instead of the run-around-and-scream approach that had gotten him so