Dane Cook, you're not funny

Eddie Izzard has reportedly signed on to be the Bad Guy in the next season of 24.

 

really? nice.....I can't wait to see Jack Bauer grab a cross-dressing terrorist and scream "WHO DO YOU WORK FOR???"

 

I would rather watch the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. than to hear this Dane cook. just from hearing what you all have to say

 

Bill Hicks is a legend. I use to like Leary's stand-up too until I read in "American Scream" that Leary stole large chunks of his act from Hicks.

From wikipedia (yeah, I know ... wikipedia, but it's legit info)
For many years, Leary had been friends with fellow comedian Bill Hicks. However, when Hicks heard Leary's 1993 release No Cure For Cancer he claimed Leary was stealing his material, particularly from his albums Sane Man (1989) and Dangerous (1990). The friendship ended abruptly as a result. Leary has said he wanted to patch things up before Hicks died in 1994, though this confession happened several years after Hicks' death.

While it has never been proven that Leary stole material from anyone (a claim which he fiercely denies), some comedians (notably Joe Rogan and Greg Giraldo) consider aspects of Leary's act and persona to be stolen from the late comedian. During Denis Leary's roast, comedian Lenny Clarke, a friend of Leary's, said there was a carton of cigarettes backstage from Hicks with the message, "Wish I had gotten these to you sooner." (8/10/2003 Boston Globe) This comment was censored from the broadcast.

This controversy was addressed in The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True:

Leary was in Montreal to host the Nasty Show at Club Soda and Colleen (one of Bill Hicks' managers) was coordinating the talent so she was standing backstage when she heard Leary doing material that sounded incredibly similar to old Hicks riffs, including his perennial Jim Fixx joke: "Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. Dude, the plot thickens." When Leary came off-stage, Colleen said, more stunned than angry (but still mad), "Hey, you know that's Bill Hicks' material! Do you know that's his material?" Leary allegedly stood there, stared at her without saying a word, and apparently briskly left the dressing room."

The book cites several other examples of lines in No Cure for Cancer that Leary allegedly used from older Bill Hicks rants, and points out that this doesn't include the "intellectual" or philosophical themes of Hicks' act.

When asked about Leary, Hicks told an interviewer: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did."

 

Look, he's British, so scale it down a bit.

 

Bump

After a weekend of Comedy Central hyping this slap and the debut of his shitass HBO special on their channel, this thread needed CPR. This guy blows. Hey fuckface, you're worth about $15 million now. How's about buying a comb and some shirts that fit.

 

I watched the first half of it tonight, but I was bored with it.

 

The SNL spoof of his horrible baseball playoff promos was tremendous.

 

I never saw them. But I'll be YouTubing them in a couple seconds.

 

If that doesn't work, try this:

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/index.shtml#mea=166788

 

Earlier in this thread, I said I don't get Cook either.

I get him a little more now, and frankly, I swung a little bit on him with the HBO special. I thought there were some damn funny bits on it. Sophomoric, sure. But I laughed.

 

Me too. Nowhere near as good as the 30 mins of Lewis Black and then 30 mins of Frank Caliendo that followed.