Dane Cook is the worst thing to ever happen to comedy.

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I hate him.

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link

My Name is Earl is also up there on the list.

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link

surely, you're overlooking carlos mencia.

― origami snail (origami snail), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link

my name is earl got nominated for at least one golden globe award. clearly you're wrong.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link

ugh, mencia

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link

mencia < cook could be overturned on the technicality that mencia has never been "funny"

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i watched earl for the first time last nite and the only part i liked was how the one guy taped polaroids of his best video game scores to the wall. oh, and i like how whatsherface was waiting by the radio with her tape recorder so that she could tape bust a move for her wedding mix-tape. she is funny. i always like her in the movies.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Mencia fucking blows.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

dane cook is horrible. i want him dead.

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

jaime pressly. that's who i meant. she was awesome in not another teen movie. she did the trash thing better in the movie poor white trash.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

he is an interweb phenom. i still have never heard his stand-up. i should watch comedy central more vigilantly. he was on adam carolla's awful show, but i fell asleep before it came on.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

To sum up this thread, Comedy Central is one of the worst things to happen to comedy

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

has he been around forever? cuz his name is really familiar and it seems like i probably saw him a zillion times years ago on all those comedy shows, but he wasn't famous so i didn't pay attention.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I think he's alright. Enjoyable enough, some bits on his most recent CD made me giggle quite a bit.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't trust him. He's allegedly from Boston but has A CANADIAN ACCENT!

He seems harmless enough though. A minor poet in the Observational Humor tradition. Curious what could possibly get under anyone's skin other than media whorishness and overexposure.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link

his schtick is so dude bro im in your face!! im the shit!! uggh.

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I also saw Earl for the first time last night and was not impressed at all. Also Dane Cook, based solely on his SNL debut, is not good. Seemed kinda Carrottop-y without the muscles or the props.

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link

his schtick is so dude bro im in your face!! im the shit!!

that does seem to sum it up pretty well. even if he's "ironic."

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Dane Cook is terrible frat boy "comedy"

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

"Carrottop-y without the muscles or the props"

and that's a bad thing?

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't mind my name is earl. mainly for the mustache

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link

the worst thing to ever happen to comedy is probably still saturday nite live. so, i guess, blame canada. and chicago. who knows what american comedy would have looked like without it. probably would have been funnier.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Dane Cook literally has jokes that start with things like "You know when a chick is blowing you?" (The payoff is something about how guys turn into "salon hairstylists and shit" while the chick is blowing them). Really pretty horrendous.

Comedy Central has had some amazing highs to help atone for their deadly lows, though. I always wonder about that - is the staff 1/2 super smart people who put on things like "Strangers With Candy" and "Comedians of Comedy" and Colbert, and 1/2 people who greenlight Carlos Mencia and Man Show frat-comedy?

They just had this special on called "Last Laugh 2005" or something that was split right down the middle between shit like Carlos Mencia riffing on the small penises of Asian men and then a genuinely smart and hilarious skit with David Koechner as Bush's go-to "blame guy."

Upon reflection, Mencia is definitely the worst thing to happen to comedy in a long time. He's racist and hateful, but worst of all, he's just really stupid.

― Mugged Outside the Jabberjaw, 1993 (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

comedy central has always been half smart and half dumb. they are just trying to fill time and make a buck. i doubt they care much what they make a buck with.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

He's the only guy who's made me turn off SNL and study just based on his intro.

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

he couldn't have been as bad as andrew dice clay. songle worst snl ever.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link

http://myspace.com/mencia

i googled him... i still don't have any idea who he is.
i guess i've never heard of him. i suppose i should be grateful.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Mind of Mencia is just so weak.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link

He's not even Mexican. Well, his mom is, but he's from Honduras.

― ath (ath), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link

otm - I thought the bird flu thing was good too. Andy Dick's Tom Cruise sketch was kinda funny, and Colbert and Stewart had some of the weakest bits, oddly.
you're right though, i have new levels of disdain for Mencia after that(and speak of the devil what's with that middle aged lady trying to pull a Diceman? horrific).

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, and another fact about "Carlos Mencia": his real name is Ned Holness. He adopted the name "Carlos Mencia" to market himself as a Mexican.

― ath (ath), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I wonder how many closet Neds there are out there.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link

closeted neds? probably a lot.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I think he's alright. Enjoyable enough, some bits on his most recent CD made me giggle quite a bit.

-- Hairy Asshurt

i hate you

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 15 December 2005 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link

The SNL skit w/ Dane Cook where he wears the itchy wool sweater was pretty funny though.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Dane Cook reminds me of a New School Evangelist. I totally thought he was going to bust into some "BUT THERE'S NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT OUR LORD JESUS WHO DIED FOR OUR SINS" when I watched his DVD.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

he sucks. that saturday night live thing made me want to strangle the mother fucker.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

im going to add Demetri Martin to the list of stand ups that suck and must be stopped. motherfucker has a segment on the daily show now. i hate that dood.

― howell huser (chaki), Sunday, 15 January 2006 03:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Chaki, I don't know you anymore.

TRENDZZZZZZZZZ

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 15 January 2006 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link

demetri martin was pretty funny when i saw him live, and i'm usually very distrustful of stand-up comedians who play instruments (that dana carvey HBO special notwithstanding)

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 15 January 2006 05:12 (eighteen years ago) link

and speak of the devil what's with that middle aged lady trying to pull a Diceman?

you mean lisa lampanelli? she's AWFUL.

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 15 January 2006 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

aww, man, i wish this thread had been around six months ago when dane cook was selling shitloads of albums and i was starting to think i was losing my mind and my sense of humor.

how some fratty "MY BOYFRIEND IS SOOOOO FUNNY" type got so popular i'll never know.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Sunday, 15 January 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link

that dana carvey HBO special notwithstanding

what was this? when was this? I would watch it, I think.

is Dana Carvey's aborted series on torrent anywhere?

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 15 January 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Demetri Martin

who's this one? the kid?

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 15 January 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

kyle, the HBO "critic's choice" special that comedy central used to run like nonstop. he reprises the "CHOPPING BROCCOLI" song on piano and does a whole bit about the OJ trial. haven't seen it in ages but i loved it back in '95 or so and for all i know it may have dated pretty well.

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 15 January 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

we get Earl in the UK now. seems like an attempt to do coen bros lite (esp. raizing arizona), god help us

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 15 January 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, with the bits with Ross Perot talking about Waterworld and Forrest Gump

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 15 January 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Comic Dane Cook signs with HBO (How do I Hyperlink btw?)

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060302-125408-4367r

Dane Cook seems like the kinda guy who got started in the funny business by being "that guy" at the party doing obnoxious Jim Carrey bits ("SMOKIN!"). He also strikes me as the kinda guy who, at thirty-something, still refers to sex as "gettin' laid" and who bitches about the music at a party until somebody plays something from Who's Next.

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I had no idea who this guy was when I saw him host SNL and couldn't figure out why they gave a horribly unfunny comic free reign all over the opening monologue to hack stand up. Not that SNL is any hallmark of comedy but I was surprised they broke with tradition like that for someone who seemed like a blip on the radar of popular culture.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I was surprised they broke with tradition like that for someone who seemed like a blip on the radar of popular culture.

They used to do this a lot more in the beginning but I think that in recent years it's gotten worse and worse. I actually wish they'd book some more obscure acts but preferably better ones.

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 3 March 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

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I think, jay, that the wtf here is the fact that you somehow think that racist slurs/racism in general is somehow comparable to telling someone they're tubby. Or that, because two people in your fucking high school killed themselves because of fat jokes, FATTISM is actually bigtime serious and racism is no biggy, because the few minority kids you "knew" managed to get over the bullshit you and your pals gave them.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I've had enough of this. Anyone this sensitive to words shouldn't be discussing stand-up comedy in the first place, and anyone who can't see that there's no such thing as a hierarchy when it comes to insults is an idiot.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Says he what flipped out over "tubby"

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess you would have all-too-easily busted out a photo of a black poster who said the same thing and said he looked like a "n----- child molester"?

― gear (gear), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

PERTINENT QUESTION: ARE YOU, IN FACT, FAT?

BECAUSE CHAKI IS ACTUALLY MEXICAN.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone this sensitive to words shouldn't be discussing stand-up comedy in the first place

omg he really said it

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

"I AM ONLY 147 LBS"

― gear (gear), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

though probably not a child molestor, i'm guessing.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, but what if he's 4 feet tall?

CHUBSTOCK.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Every time this thread gets revived it is 100% classic.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

(and for christ's sake, I'm 147 lbs!)

Are you 5'2"?

― Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

(x-post)

― Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, and I'm the abusive one...

Look, I'm willing to be the bigger man here and apologize for my remarks offending you and anyone else. You, however, seem to not recognize that your remarks offended me, so whatever, I just don't feel like being involved in this hypocracy anymore. So, I apologize, I spoke out of anger and I shouldn't have.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I wasn't offended, I just think you're a moron.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Feeling is mutual.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

just a bit of racism, let's be cool

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Whatever, if you're not going to take this seriously, that's fine.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread is funnier than dane cook.

― La Monte (La Monte), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

True dat.

― Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Supercalifragilisticexpiala Brosius (chaki), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway a that sucks that dane cook stole those jokes from louis ck

― Supercalifragilisticexpiala Brosius (chaki), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Lucky Louie has gotten pretty good.

― Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

But I once heard Louis CK call McDonald's "Mickey-D's", clearly a Cook-ism. Okay I can't get over the BK thing sry.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh fuck you, Chaki.

-- Jay "22/M/147lb" Blanchard (mperpetua) (webmail), January 8th, 2005 1:37 PM. (link)

― mark grebt (sanskrit), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link

lol is that for real?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish

― mark grebt (sanskrit), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

wow/oah! this thread!

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Saturday, 29 July 2006 06:54 (seventeen years ago) link

holy shit, this thread

I don't really have anything against Dane Cook.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 29 July 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone this sensitive to words shouldn't be discussing stand-up comedy in the first place, and anyone who can't see that there's no such thing as a hierarchy when it comes to insults is an idiot.

This is the point where I realized something was drastically, horribly wrong.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 29 July 2006 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, yeah. This thread got way too fucking insane, didn't it? Which is a shame because earlier in this thread I'd have thought I'd found my people, what with the anti-Carlos Mencia thing going on. I can't explain in words just how much I hate Carlos Mencia, though the general idea has been proposed before by the people who shared their anti-Mencia POVs upthread. I don't know enough about Dane Cook to comment on him; the only thing I know is that he's apparently some kind of teen idol type the girlies today like to crush on. Sounds less damaging that Mencia's POS bigotry. That half-German, half-Honduran nitwit...grrr.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The idea that Dennis Leary is better than Bill Hicks is making me "roffle."

Some thread here.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

jay just made explicit what everyone on this board thinks re: mencia

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you have the idea of 'speaking truth to power' wrong.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 July 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned, shut the fuck up for once, please.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 29 July 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

So you could hear Jay talk some more and whisper sweet nothings in your ear? Pobrecito.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 July 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't speak Spanish to me, honky.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

The idea of Ned murmuring consoling Spanish nothings is so much more comedic than any of the people mentioned up-thread.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

ok jay you can fuck with me and call me all the racial slurs you want but your fatal mistake was insulting my girl. i can post the pics of your cosplay lovin girlfriend i just saw right now dressed up as a superdeformed lara croft or a rather large sally from nightmare before xmas but you know what ill be the better man and keep them to myself. ahh myspace. you two are going to have beautiful role playing large anglo dream kids one day. :)

― Supercalifragilisticexpiala Brosius (chaki), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, man. You ain't kiddin.

― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Look, I'm willing to be the bigger man here...

-- jay blanchard (kinojay3...) (webmail), July 28th, 2006 8:04 PM. (jay blanchard)

well you are the bigger man. i mean, we're talking huge.

― Lmaoborghini (eman), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

you guys know he's been banned, right? are you getting the last word in or something?

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link

my bad "you guys", i made a terrible poorly-timed joke on the dane cock thread

― Lmaoborghini (eman), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Lmaoborghini (eman), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Supercalifragilisticexpiala Brosius (chaki), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

ha de-evolution in action!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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― gear (gear), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

myspace is creepy.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link

seven months pass...

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― gershy, Thursday, 8 March 2007 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh god this thread.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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