Dane Cook's Vicious Circle premiered on Comedy Central tonight at 10 pm. Here, at 10:04 p.m., which is the same as about 1% precincts reporting, I am ready to project that Dane Cook sucks*.
So in the first two minutes, he is introduced like a rock star, with the stage in the middle of the arena, not unlike Backstreet Boys' last successful tour. There are two giant hands making a gesture that apparently is Cook's thing or something.
Judging by crowd cut-aways, his audience is 80% female. And his first joke is talking about he's lying to his friend about coming to his party even though he already knows he isn't going to go.
Two minutes later (this is two minutes after I've projected he's not funny), he uses the word "Mezazoic Era" in a joke. As a general rule, no word is funny with more than three syllables, especially when it's an unnecessary use. I suspect he decided to use this word in an attempt to sound educated. Okay, it's 10:12 and its the first commercial break. I will now spend the next week of my life trying to figure out why people think he is funny. I think I will actually record it, so I can study it and come up with a thesis.
My working hypothesis is Dane is the guy in college who is really popular, is always the center of attention and everyone laughs at his very low-brow jokes, but you can never really pinpoint how he got to this level.
This is my first impression of Dane Cook, but it is not the last.
*I've never seen Dane Cook stand-up comedy, which many may view as strange, but I think I was out of the country when he rose to stardom. Either that or I just haven't jumped into MySpace as deeply as I should.
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