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Dane Cook

Birth name: Dane Jeffrey Cook

Birth date: 18.03.1972

Dane Jeffrey Cook is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He has released two albums, Harmful If Swallowed and Retaliation, the latter of which went double platinum and became the highest charting comedy album in twenty-eight years. Cook performs 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, with Jessica Simpson. Cook was born in Boston, to Donna and George Cook. He grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb and, along with his five sisters and one brother, was raised as a Roman Catholic. Growing up, Dane worked at Video Horizons and Burger King. In 1998, Cook was featured on Comedy Central's stand-up comedy showcase Premium Blend. The following year he appeared on the comedy network's Comics Come Home and the straight-to-video Dennis Rodman vehicle, Simon Sez as Rodman's partner, Nick Miranda. Two years later, Cook pooled $25,000 of his own money from savings and retirement accounts and launched www.danecook.com, his own interactive website, to further his career and stay connected to his fans. Later, Cook would also become one of the first celebrities to make use of the global networking site MySpace. To date, Cook has over 1.6 million fans listed as friends on his profile. In 2002 and 2003, Cook was featured as the voice of three puppets on Comedy Central's Crank Yankers, which featured real prank phone calls being recorded in a studio and then re-enacted by puppets. Four of Cook's calls were aired between July 2002 and April 2003. He took on the aliases of Sav McCauley, Gene Winterbuck, and Foreign Guy. Included with Cook's first comedy album, Harmful If Swallowed (2003) was a DVD with the Comedy Central special. Later that year, Cook wrote, directed, and starred in 8 Guys. 2005 to present 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.... 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. Soon after, he finished his own television pilot called Cooked, a program in which he will star and for which he will write. 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 was one of the highest-rated SNLs of the season (until the Steve Martin/Prince episode in February of 2006). 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. His first show sold out during the pre-sale phase of the on-sale, and a second show was added for the same night. In all, Dane Cook's Boston concert drew 36,000 fans in two shows, on the same night. A documentary series and a scripted program are also in the works for HBO.[6] 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. Aside from airing on HBO, Vicious Circle is also being screened in select theaters and it features an additional 40 minutes of material. September saw the release of Employee of the Month, Cook's first movie featuring him in the lead role. He co-starred alongside Jessica Simpson and Dax Shepard. Response to this movie was lukewarm but made an acceptable box office performance. At the end of December 2006, Cook released "I'll Never Be You" his first single. In the song, Dane refers to himself as a normal person ("My life stands still, watching where your life goes"), commenting with envy ("sometimes I picture myself beating you up") at a celebrity or otherwise popular person. His mother died of cancer in 2006.

Filmography

# Dan in Real Life (2007) .... Mitch Burns # Good Luck Chuck (2007) .... Charlie/Chuck # Mr. Brooks (2007) .... Mr. Smith # Farce of the Penguins (2007) (V) (voice) .... Online Penguin # Employee of the Month (2006) .... Zack # London (2005) .... George # Waiting... (2005) .... Floyd # "Duck Dodgers" .... Van Chancy (1 episode, 2005) ... aka Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (USA: long title) - The Kids Are All Wrong/Win, Lose or Duck (2005) TV Episode (voice) .... Van Chancy # Cooked (2005) (TV) .... Dane # Mr. 3000 (2004) (voice) .... Sausage Mascot # "Good Girls Don't..." .... Max (1 episode, 2004) ... aka My Roommate Is a Big Fat Slut (Australia: cable TV title) - Whatever Happened to Jane's Baby? (2004) TV Episode .... Max # Torque (2004) .... Neil Luff # Humor Me (2004) (TV) .... Dane # Stuck on You (2003) .... Officer Fraioli # Windy City Heat (2003) (TV) .... Roman Polanski # "Crank Yankers" .... Sav McCauley / ... (3 episodes, 2002-2003) - Episode #2.6 (2003) TV Episode (voice) .... Foreign Guy - Episode #1.10 (2002) TV Episode (voice) .... Gene Winterbuck/Sav McCauley - Episode #1.7 (2002) TV Episode (voice) .... Sav McCauley # "The Man Show" .... Blotto Pugilistum (1 episode, 2002) - Juggy Car Wash (2002) TV Episode .... Blotto Pugilistum # The Touch (2002) .... Bob ... aka Tian mai chuan qi (China: Mandarin title) # L.A.X. (2002) .... Terrell Chasman # Simon Sez (1999) .... Nick Miranda # Mystery Men (1999) .... Waffler # Spiral (1999) .... David # "Suddenly Susan" .... Elliott (1 episode, 1998) - A Kiss Is Just Amiss (1998) TV Episode .... Elliott # Buddy (1997) .... Fair Cop # Flypaper (1997) .... Tim # "Maybe This Time" .... Kyle (5 episodes, 1995-1996)