... are you effin' serious? No one in the industry respects him?? Louis CK (whom Dane Cook was once accused of stealing jokes from) has even said that Dane was a great comedian. The only reason there are a lot of haters out there is because Dane isn't very "technical". He doesn't follow the rules of comedy or how to deliver a joke. He just goes all out and manages to tell an absolutely normal story in such a way that you can't help but laugh your ass off. Some people don't like that. They want the regular "What about that airline food, eh?" type of joke.
Furthermore, Dane talks about life. Not certain topics, but life in general. For example, in his Vicious Circle DVD, he talks about cheating, meeting old friends, crying, teenagers, etc... that roughly sums it up.
I would also like to add that I'm not a frat boy nor am I in love with him. I saw him at the Montreal Comedy Festival and for the first time in my life (at a comedy club), I was split in two, laughing with tears in my eyes. Since then, he hasn't disapointed me once, even in "Dan In Real Life" (starring Steve Carrell), though I must say that Employee of the Month and that other movie with Jessica Alba were pretty boring...
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