https://www.premiumhollywood.com Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:22:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 https://www.premiumhollywood.com/2005/08/01/an-interview-with-dane-cook/ https://www.premiumhollywood.com/2005/08/01/an-interview-with-dane-cook/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:54:14 +0000 https://www.premiumhollywood.com/2005/08/01/an-interview-with-dane-cook/ Bullz-Eye.com interviewed stand-up comic Dane Cook a while back. Here's a clip:

In five minutes, Dane Cook is going to call me. This is wildly surreal, in that I’ve been putting snippets of his material on mix CDs for years. He’s one of the few comedians that has made me laugh so hard that I couldn’t make a sound. His new album, Retaliation, is filled with paralyzed-by-laughter moments. His bit about being in a heist, and owning a monkey so he can battle it when he gets home from work, is sublime. After a good long stretch when comedy was dead dead deadsky, Cook is a sight for sore eyes and ears.

The phone rings. My Privacy Manager shows “Cook, Dane” on it. Sweet. Wasn’t expecting that.

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BE: So when did you start hitting clubs?

DC: I started touring extensively, outside of New England, like ’94. I stayed around the Boston area the first year, and then started doing clubs in New Hampshire, Maine, and then started getting gigs at some colleges. So yeah, I moved to New York in ’95, and then started hitting the country.

BE: I used to follow comedy religiously, and to me, the boom was the mid ‘80s to the early ‘90s. What was it like getting into comedy when it was kind of at its lowest point?

DC: It was kind of funny, because the week I first started hanging out in the clubs, some of the old time guys, who had been there during the boom, they’d say, “Aw, you missed it! Yeah, it ended like a week ago. You’re just starting now! Oh, good timing, really good timing.” It was dead. There were a lot of clubs still, but it was no catapult to fame the way it was in the late ‘80s. It was good for me, though, in retrospect. It’s not like I had the chance to ride the big wave, only to get caught in the undertow. I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what it is that I wanted to do.

Click here for the full interview....]]> Bullz-Eye.com interviewed stand-up comic Dane Cook a while back. Here's a clip:

In five minutes, Dane Cook is going to call me. This is wildly surreal, in that I’ve been putting snippets of his material on mix CDs for years. He’s one of the few comedians that has made me laugh so hard that I couldn’t make a sound. His new album, Retaliation, is filled with paralyzed-by-laughter moments. His bit about being in a heist, and owning a monkey so he can battle it when he gets home from work, is sublime. After a good long stretch when comedy was dead dead deadsky, Cook is a sight for sore eyes and ears.

The phone rings. My Privacy Manager shows “Cook, Dane” on it. Sweet. Wasn’t expecting that.

...

BE: So when did you start hitting clubs?

DC: I started touring extensively, outside of New England, like ’94. I stayed around the Boston area the first year, and then started doing clubs in New Hampshire, Maine, and then started getting gigs at some colleges. So yeah, I moved to New York in ’95, and then started hitting the country.

BE: I used to follow comedy religiously, and to me, the boom was the mid ‘80s to the early ‘90s. What was it like getting into comedy when it was kind of at its lowest point?

DC: It was kind of funny, because the week I first started hanging out in the clubs, some of the old time guys, who had been there during the boom, they’d say, “Aw, you missed it! Yeah, it ended like a week ago. You’re just starting now! Oh, good timing, really good timing.” It was dead. There were a lot of clubs still, but it was no catapult to fame the way it was in the late ‘80s. It was good for me, though, in retrospect. It’s not like I had the chance to ride the big wave, only to get caught in the undertow. I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what it is that I wanted to do.

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