Name: Dane Cook | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #178
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Dane Cook | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #178

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Today's episode is with a gentleman, male comedian, who has certainly been
through it all.
He has a new tour that's actually going to be in St. Louis this Friday night
tomorrow.
You can get tickets to see him.
And I'm happy he's here in studio today.
It is Mr. Dane Cook.
What was, was Daneiac, what was like a name that fans, because fans pick up
like kind of names sometimes.
And I feel like.
Oh, like what they call themselves.
I feel like it never kind of turns out well.
Yeah, I had Dane, Daneiacs actually, they tried to do that and I killed that.
You did?
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no.
And then the Dane train.
Yeah.
Is what I coined one day and I was like, okay, that sounds kind of cool.
Yeah, get on the Dane train, get off the Dane train.
Yeah, it's not like a fucking Doobie Brothers song or something like that.
I was, that was, and I'm glad that caught for a little bit.
And a train, it gives the fans something to get off of, like are your
supporters something to get, you know.
Right, right.
We're going to bring it into the station.
Yeah.
You go home, you have yourself a nice meal.
Yeah.
And then get back on the Dane train and we'll head to the next destination.
Yeah, and at least it's open to like, if people are like, hey, you know, I've
been on here for a couple of years, I'm ready to step off.
And then, you know, I'm ready to get on.
You know, it like gives the opportunity.
Because otherwise, yeah, what if somebody gets a tattoo that they're a Daneiac
and then six years later, they're like, eh.
People have gotten tattoos.
I mean, I've seen people with my face on their inner thigh.
Wow.
Which is like such a weird, if I was going to get your face anywhere in my body,
I don't know if I'd go thigh.
Yeah.
You know, maybe you just go back and you kind of make it like a, you know, just
a presentation if you're, you know, down by the local pool.
But yeah.
Like a little bit of the past then.
Or then it's like, yeah, something in the front, the thigh.
Right in here.
A man or woman?
It was a man.
It was a dude.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was a guy.
He actually had a lot of comedians on his body.
It was like a tribute to all things comedy.
Oh, that's pretty cool.
Yeah, man.
It was awesome.
Wow.
What do your fans call you or call themselves?
Are they trying to come up with like a...
Do we have anything, Nick?
I got one.
Okay.
What about this?
Ready?
The crispy Von Tons.
Okay.
Hey, what's up?
All the crispy Von Tons out there.
Especially your Chinese fans would really, really play into that.
That's actually pretty good.
We only have, I think, one Chinese fan.
All right.
Well, you know what?
You're the crispy Von Tons.
Yeah, you're the start.
Yeah, because that seems kind of...
Yeah, like it gets kind of crazy when you start having like fans and supporters,
you know?
Yeah.
I really...
When I turned a corner of being absolutely, you know, out of any kind of
conversation to
having people, you know, want to like know more about me beyond comedy, that's
when it
got a little funky because I was like, oh, I'm really different from, you know,
the persona.
So that's the only part that was tricky.
I love the correspondence with fans when we were talking shop, talking comedy,
talking bits,
talking, you know, whatever is coming up next.
When they were like, what makes you sad?
It was like, I don't know if I could share that information.
Oh, that's what our whole podcast is based on.
My whole podcast is based on like, you know, just things that I've thought or
felt or...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, now I'm like the opposite.
Now I can dig super deep and I've kind of been through every incarnation of a
career.
So it's like, now this is perfect because I've 29 years later grown into the
idea of like
being introspective is actually way more exciting than just being observant of
behavior.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because I was reading like some people, because you're definitely like a
performer, you know,
and I've always been big on, I've never been a, like I respect joke writers,
but I like,
well, I personally enjoy watching a performer.
Right.
You know, it's why I love like Sebastian Maniscalco.
Yes.
You know, it's like, it's one of the reasons why I like watching Chris D'Elia.
Like I, I like watching something occur.
Yeah.
You know, and it seemed like, um, but performers, it seems like don't get as
much credit from
the media at all.
Yeah.
It's similar to like how most of the time, like bombastic movies that are like
action oriented
doesn't get the same kind of, um, uh, critical acclaim as something that's just,
you know,
a little dour and maudlin and dramatic.
It's bonkers.
It's like the same amount of effort, energy, uh, creativity, um, impact, all of
that stuff
needs to come together in order to make an act like that.
And I, I'm the same way I grew up, Jerry, you know, Jerry Lewis, uh, Steve
Martin, um,
dice, you know, people, uh, Martin short.
I just like people that went for it.
Yeah.
You know, and, but as I got a little bit older, started to realize, oh, if you
can, um, if
you can work this craft and try to, um, build yourself up, there's a way to
actually have
that and then bring something that's, uh, written or more introspective to it,
which
is kind of cool now.
And do you feel like, so do you feel like you're doing that more with your new
tour, with this
new tour that you're going on now?
Yeah.
What's different between it?
Like if you're a fan coming out that came out, you know, that was on the Dane
train in
the beginning, you know, that was on, cause it was really like a rock.
I mean, was that like a rocket ship when you, cause I mean.
It, it really wasn't because it was a slow burn.
It probably felt that way for a lot of people that, you know, suddenly were
like smacked in
the face of like, who's this name?
Dane cook.
I keep hearing, but the college market I had for all of the nineties been just
like
chipping away and out and, you know, just like partying after with everybody
and just
trying to ingratiate myself and, um, and, and, and also it was just fun, you
know, cause
I was a kid hanging out with, you know, making a little money, having some fun.
But, um, I always understood the, the campaign element of it, which is if I
want to, you know,
be elected a comedian of the year until my service is over, like I'm going to
have to get as
many people on board without a TV show, without, I didn't have a lot of, I didn't
have like
the, just for, I was talking to Bruce Hills at just for life.
I said, you never had me on one new faces.
I just didn't have any of the industry support access support early.
And, uh, it's probably good because it just made me have to cultivate my own
means.
They don't get, it seems like, yeah, it's like, I wonder why they don't, I
think a lot
of them yet like scares them or something to believe that it makes it feel like
it's not
about the entertainment anymore.
It's just about what the industry kind of wants to push sometimes.
Right, right.
It's, uh, it's what's relevant right now today.
And it, and I, I'm probably, I'm not going to be a hypocrite.
I've, I've been guilty of it myself where it's like you just glom onto
something because everybody's
so enthusiastic about it, but with time and, and, and you're going to learn
this as well.
And I've talked to people before me that turned this corner.
There's a, there's a moment, there's a process during your career where you
start to, um,
earn a pedigree where you start to, um, uh, you're seasoned and that's actually
when a
performer I think is more interesting.
You know, the trajectory, it's great, shiny, new, exciting what they do with
that and how
we evolve and how we communicate with each other.
And then to the crowd, I feel like at 30 years in almost that I'm just getting
good.
I'm just using all the tools in the arsenal to tell the kind of stories that I've
always
hoped to tell and when, to answer your question directly, what's different
about the tour now
is yeah, there's more introspection.
Cause I have more hindsight to, to play off observationally, but it's my
hindsight.
It's, it's my, um, story, my ups, my downs.
And the thing that was the, probably the trickiest about this tour in this time
was I just didn't
want it to be a one man show.
I love one man shows, but I didn't want my show to be something less than what
people
had seen before.
I wanted the same LPMs laughs per minute with all the new tools that I had in
my arsenal,
which took a little, it took a little time to get around that, that, uh, that
turn.
So what do you, but it seems like, oh, I mean, but I mean, comedy is a one man.
So when you see, when you say you don't want it to be a one man show, like,
what do you
mean by that?
Like I didn't want it to be, um, introspective to the point where it wasn't
great for entertaining.
Yeah.
You know, I wanted, if you saw me 20 years ago, the greatest compliment I've
gotten this
last weekend, my tour just recently started is people saying seeing you eight
times was
at Madison square garden.
Was that this, was that that this is my favorite show I've seen you do.
And people saying, honestly, I didn't know you could do that.
I, I wasn't sure if you could exceed my expectations again, but the show is as
good, if not better
than other shows I've seen you do in the past.
And that, that's the greatest as a comedian, except for people quoting your
shit and saying
it back to you, which is always fun.
Uh, you feel like Mark Twain for a little bit, right?
Um, it's, it's really, uh, it's, it's kind of one of the coolest aspects of, um,
still
being able to do it at the level that I've, I've been doing it.
Yeah.
It's cool.
Do you feel you've always seemed to me like kind of to be like a lone wolf kind
of, do
you feel that?
I think that in, I don't feel that in life.
I feel like if anything, I, I, it's an embarrassment of riches with how many
great, um, mentors and
friends that I have in, in, and out of comedy.
Um, but when you're 28 years old and you hit the stratosphere, nobody can talk
to you about
that.
Nobody understands it and perception takes over because then people start to
believe that
maybe you're, um, not accessible and, uh, and who is accessible to you.
You don't find out two years later, bullshitters.
People want to make a little scratch, right?
People that see something to gai