Artist: Dane Cook
Album: Harmful If Swallowed
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Dane Cook makes me nuts. He’s not particularly funny once you get past the first couple of jokes, and he mistakes spastic gestures and movements for genuine comedic delivery. There’s also the argument that everything he did as a standup comic, Louis CK did five years earlier and ten times better. I mention this because my roommates and I played Monopoly last night, and as has become the norm since Cook became unkillably popular, before we had even finished setting up, someone had to go and be “that guy” and start quoting Cook’s bit about Monopoly (hear it in the second half of the mp3 below). I kid you not just about every game of monopoly I’ve played for the last 6 years has been tainted with someone shouting either “Fuck this game!” or “Where’d you get the pink 50s, grandma?”. Admittedly, I was this person for about a year. And then every idiot who ever watched 5 minutes of Comedy Central started quoting Cook’s “comedy”, shortly before such cinematic classics as Employee of the Month came out. It’s a shame, since there’s something funny somewhere in Dane Cook’s aesthetic. But cheap microphone sound effects and jerky movements only go so far. Fortunately, Harmful if Swallowed captures Cook just before he exploded into mainstream consciousness and started pandering to what people expected him to do, so if you really feel the need to listen to him, this would be where to go.
Dane Cook – Operation / Monopoly [iTunes] (YSI)
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Filed under: Album A Day Tagged: | 2000s, Album A Day, comedy, Dane Cook
