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Dane Cook Profile |
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Birth Date: March 18, 1972
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Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Birth Name: Dane Jeffrey Cook
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Height: 6'0"
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Biography |
Dane Cook (born March 18, 1972 in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He has released
two full-length comedy albums, Harmful If Swallowed and
Retaliation, the latter of which went double platinum[1] and
became the best-selling comedy album in twenty-eight years.
He has performed on many television shows and in the fall of
2006 performed in his own HBO special, Vicious Circle. As an
actor, Cook has appeared in fifteen films since 1997, and
starred in the 2006 comedy Employee of the Month.
Cook grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb.
He worked at the Video Horizons near the Ottoson Middle
School, and used it for his material in a skit titled
"Late." He was raised Irish Catholic, and has five sisters
and one brother, Darrel. This environment provided comedy
fodder for Cook, and his father observed that Dane's humor
was often inspired by events in real life. The material used
in his "BK Lounge" skit was from his job at the Burger King
in Belmont.
His primary influences were television comedians, including
Bill Cosby, Johnny Carson, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and
Bob Newhart. In performances for his family, he would
re-interpret his favorite comedians' material to develop his
own act.
Cook began performing stand-up comedy in 1990. By 1995, he
was performing stand-up comedy every night, usually in
Boston and later at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. He
stated in a 2005 interview with Entertainment Weekly that he
"never walked toward a stage and felt heavy. Ever. Even in
bad places, [he] always learned something." Also in 1995,
Cook made his television debut as Kyle in five episodes of
the short-lived ABC series Maybe This Time, starring Marie
Osmond and Betty White.
In 1998, he was featured on Comedy Central's stand-up comedy
showcase Premium Blend and, the following year, Comics Come
Home. It would begin a partnership with the cable channel
that would help launch Cook's career to new heights. A
half-hour feature segment on Comedy Central Presents
followed in 2000. He made his first appearance in a major
motion picture as "The Waffler" (a superhero who uses a
waffle iron and "truth syrup" to fight crime) in Mystery Men
(1999).
1999 also saw Cook starring in the straight-to-video Dennis
Rodman vehicle, Simon Sez. In the film, Cook plays Rodman's
partner, Nick Miranda. The film was directed by Kevin
Elders, previously known as the screenwriter for Aces: Iron
Eagle III.
Two years later, Cook pooled $25,000 of his own money from
savings and retirement accounts and launched DaneCook.com,
his own interactive website to help further his career and
help stay personally connected to his fans. His website and
MySpace account generated upwards of 2 million fans.
In 2002 and 2003, Dane was featured as the voice of three
puppets on the Comedy Central show Crank Yankers, which
featured real prank phone calls being recorded in a studio
and then re-enacted by puppets. Four of Dane's calls were
aired between July 2002 and April 2003. He took on the
aliases of Sav McCauley, Gene Winterbuck and Foreign Guy.
In 2003, Cook released his first comedy album, Harmful If
Swallowed. Also that year, Cook released the film 8 Guys,
which he wrote, directed, and starred in.
His first lead role in a movie is in Employee of the Month
(2006).
In 2005, Cook launched a nationwide tour dubbed "Tourgasm"
after releasing his album Retaliation, which debuted at #4
on Billboard magazine's Top Albums chart. That year, he also
played a role as a cook named Floyd in the movie Waiting....
The success of Retaliation launched a slew of public
appearances and magazine articles that fall, including a
three-minute routine on the MTV Video Music Awards on August
28. He also performed three sold-out shows in two nights at
Madison Square Garden Nokia Theater in mid-September.
During a May 2005 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Cook
parodied Tom Cruise's "couch jumping" Oprah appearance and
made a "tattoo" of Katie Holmes (actually a picture taped to
his back) and barged into the women's restroom to get her.
During an October 2005 appearance on The Tonight Show,
Charlize Theron gave him permission to kiss her butt. Cook
was re-enacting a previous joke in which Theron kissed
Shirley MacLaine's butt at a Premiere magazine tribute to
women in Hollywood.
Cook also appeared and performed on Dave Attell's Insomniac
Tour.
He finished his own television pilot called Cooked, which he
is writing and starring in, soon afterwards.
On December 3, 2005, Cook hosted Saturday Night Live. He
performed the longest monologue in the show's history
(around ten minutes long); the episode the highest-rated
SNLs of the season. However, Entertainment Weekly named it
the fourth-worst show of the year.
Cook hosted SNL for a second time on the premiere of its
thirty-second season, September 30, 2006.
On January 13, 2006, after months of keeping a "BIG secret"
from his fans, he announced via his website an April 15 gig
at Boston's TD Banknorth Garden where his first HBO special,
Vicious Circle, would be eventually filmed. A documentary
series and a scripted program are also in the works for HBO.
In the week prior to the televised gig, he performed at the
Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas (April 8) and Allstate
Arena in Chicago (April 13), the largest venues he has ever
performed in those cities.
Cook was in Santa Fe, New Mexico filming a new movie called
Employee of the Month, a comedy co-starring Jessica Simpson,
Dax Shepard, Efren Ramirez, and Harland Williams. He is also
currently filming the psychological thriller Mr. Brooks in
Shreveport, Louisiana with Kevin Costner. He was named in
Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of
2006.
Dane Cook's first HBO special, Vicious Circle, was aired on
September 4, 2006. It was a 90-minte presentation which was
filmed at TD Banknorth Garden in his hometown of Boston,
Massachusetts on a circular stage surrounded by the
audience. The stage had on it the impression of his Super
Finger hand gesture. |
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Other Information |
Attended Arlington High School in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Worked at Video Horizons in Arlington, Massachusetts
Has a brother and five sisters
Shares his birthday with singer Adam Levine of Maroon 5 and
hip-hop MC-turned-actress Queen Latifah.
Is of Irish and Italian heritage.
Worked at a Burger King where his brother was the manager.
Is a Boston Red Sox fan.
Both of his parents were in their 40s when Dane was born.
He once worked with Scott Rockett at the Laugh Factory in
Hollywood, along with Aisha Tyler and his Employee of the
Month (2006) co-star, Harland Williams. |
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your beautiful dane!
oh, hilarious too.
:)
is true!! No one can touch him with there material!! I am from New Bedfod, MA so I have to support him!! LOVE YA DANE XOXOXO MEl
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH(2006)
DAN IN REAL LIFE(2007)
GOOD LUCK CHUCK(2007)
most females want him...
most guys want to be him...
now that's a beast
plus he talks about true stuff
that's why he's so
freaking funny!!!