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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Did People Hate Dane Cook?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-03-08. Transcript available.

Why do you think you were like easy to hate if that's okay question? Well look,
I was like young and wearing fucking cool jeans
Fur, not fur. Did you ever wear fur? Be honest, dude. I never wore fur. I never
wore fur. Not faux fur. Is that what you call fake fur?
Faux? Is it hawks? First, hopefully, I would assume being from Massachusetts,
you would go with real fur, dude. That's Paul Revere country.
You guys have earned the real fur, but did you ever wear fur? No. I did not. No,
no, we didn't, but my mom had some fur coats.
So I probably did throw one of my mom's fur. But not once you got it popular.
No, once I, once I made it, I was, it was like, uh, you know, tight shirts and,
um, I, you know, the image that I was trying to create, um, Steve Martin, the
white suit, the, the, the dichotomy of being like, Hey, I'm dressed up really
nice, but I'm being like wacky.
And then dice, of course, the element of, uh, of like bad-ass and, and cool
Eddie Murphy and the, you know, leather outfit. I was figuring out, Hey, you
know what? My thing is like, I'm, I'm coming up with this next generation and
dudes are more fashionista in many ways than, you know, in the past.
So I just found my niche and I played up on that. And then I, I could
understand years later, looking back, like, Oh my God, I wouldn't have liked
that guy either.
You know, it's, it's, uh, you know, hindsight is, uh, an incredible, incredibly
prolific thing. Um, and you don't know what the time you just think you're, you
know, I don't know, just you're doing the best you can to try to create an
image that, um, that resonates.
Yeah. You know, and you did a great job. So at certain points, cause when you
say like, you know, the jealousy and did it, uh, Theo, I wasn't, I wasn't
looking at that. I was looking at 20,000 people.
I wasn't looking at the one guy in the comment section who was like, of course.
Yeah. You know, so it's a mess or square garden. You're looking at the, the
proof that was in front of you. Yeah. Was that everything I'm doing is right.
Yeah. It was like, I was just looking at, um, the love from the fans that I had,
uh, found or who found me. So it really didn't hit me until many, many years
later of like, Oh wow, there's really some genuine animosity.
And it's just up to me to have conversations like this with my peers, with the
brotherhood of comedy to say, uh, I'm accessible. And, uh, you know, you know,
if you're a fan, I'm accessible. You could DM me. I write everybody back.
Sometimes people write me and say, Hey man, I'm having a shitty day. And I go,
here's what you need to do.
Yeah. Cause I'm super sensitive and, uh, I'm empathetic to that. So the
perception of me very different than who I am. Um, when I'm just, you know, at
home kicking it.
Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. Yeah. Cause that's what I mean. Yeah. If I'm real
candid, it was just like, yeah, what is Dane? Like Dane seems like this, I don't
know. Yeah. Like this kind of like this Pluto kind of like this thing where
people don't know, but for some reason people have felt rubbed the wrong way,
you know?
Yeah. But then also has probably had the ability to gain, garner a huge amount
of jealousy over time as well. So yeah, there's a lot of factors in there. I
bet it was probably hard to sift through some of that if you even wanted to
look at it.
It was, it was like, uh, because it, it didn't, it wasn't, even though it wasn't
affecting me directly in terms of like business, it affected like my fans didn't
like feeling like they were.
Yeah. Then if you were a Dane fan, then it was like weird.
Right. There was a period where it's like, people were like, Hey, am I, I say I
like you. And then I get attacked by other people.
Yeah. But when you start to real chair because I was at your Madison square
garden, 20,000 seat show, what you start to realize what's going on, bro.
Here's the, here's the breakthrough breaking news in what everybody learns when
you become successful and what you're learning, you know, you, you, you, right
now you're in the pink cloud phase.
Everything's, you know, everybody's finding you and discovering you and passing
you around. Um, everything is mediocre. Everything, every
single thing is mediocre. Aerosmith. I love them. There's somebody going, eh, I
don't, it's not my
thing. You can't name a book, uh, a magician. Nobody definitely can't name a
magician. You can't name
magicians. And can we just admit magicians are comedians arch nemesis. I mean,
that should
be, who else is it? Yeah. It should be a movie dude. And it definitely should
be a movie.
Who else could our arch nemesis be? Um, uh, no, that's it. It has, you win.
That's it. That's the end
of that, that run right there. Um, but I interrupted, but everything, no,
everything is, you find out,
uh, success introduces you to, uh, mediocrity because then everybody outside of
your realm,
um, is going to tell you why you're not that great and what sucks about you.
You know, you can, we're
watching careers right now of people, let's just say in the last five years.
And what do they do?
They get white hot. And then, um, you know, and then it's like the spanking
machine. Everybody's
going to get tagged and we're going to find things out that we don't like about
them. And then what
happens is your, your fan base, the bottom of the V right here, they're still,
you know, pretty much
rock solid in place. Most of them. And then everybody out here is, um, in the
business of
telling you, yeah, we don't care. Right. And they want to tell you, and they're
going to reach out
to tell you all we can do. Just come up with the next set, next joke, get up on
stage, try to have
a few more laughs with our friends, family, and then, um, do one more show.
That's, that's what I'm
doing. Yeah. We definitely seem to be really fearless. You know, that's for
sure. Like just to,
because I grew up in fear to continue to keep your head down and keep going,
grew up in fear,
when you grew up in fear based, which I was then man, just, you know, once I,
once I found
this, um, conduit comedy, once I had that, it was like the dilithium crystal. I
had fucking
superpowers. I had this ability to actually be, um, present and important to
people when I didn't
even feel important to myself. Right. It took a long time for all those things
to equate,
um, uh, a well-rounded, healthy lifestyle, both on and off stage, you know, to
be able
to have great conversations like this. Yeah. You know, do you, um, did you have
an idea what
you thought like being a star was or something like that before you like hit
like a level of,
a stardom popularity? Oh, what a great question, man. That, that, um, I
remember, um, Rob, you know,
seeing guys like Robin Williams playing, uh, like Garp and like a world
occurring to Garp. Yeah. Oh,
dude, that's one of my favorite books of all time. Love it. Book amazing. The
film, you know,
awesome. He was awesome. And I was looking at a lot of comedic actors, um, and
admiring that they could
tell different kinds of stories. They could make you laugh. Maybe they can make
you cry to me. That
was like, uh, an, an interesting, um, route for a career. So what I did in
where it plays into the
question is like, I, I took my foot off the gas of what I knew people had, um,
discovered me as,
and was like, I'm going to downshift and try to go in that direction so I could
have some more
credibility and outside of comedy. Um, deconstructed myself really in the mid,
you know,
2000 era. You mean like with films and stuff like that with that kind of work?
Yeah. Cause then I
started getting some opportunity to do things that were very different from
standup based on my
standup. Kevin Costner was a fan of my standup and then said, do you want to
play a serial killer
in this movie with me? And it was like, suddenly that was when I felt a certain
level of stardom
when I was, um, not so much from the comedy ever, but from the, um, being
received. And this all comes
back to inclusion and feeling isolated as a kid, you know, Kevin Costner's and
Demi Moore's and
Juliette Binoche and Steve Carell, people that I, I love to watch them do
things that were so
drastically different. We're now saying, Hey, you, you know, right. Yeah. You're
then you're one of us.
So that's when I started to feel a bit of, um, Oh wow. I, I, I'm, I'm in a, I'm
in a different
circle. Right. I'm in an inner circle. And do you, do you feel like then you
start treating people
differently? Like, like, was there ever a point you felt like, like looking
back, like, Oh, I was an
asshole. You know, I never felt like I was an asshole. I never felt like, uh, I
had never gotten to a
place where I, like I had seen some other comedians in some other behaviors. Um,
you know,
there was Eddie Griffin is who there was pretty, um, there were some magicians
out there actually
who were fucking assholes. Um, Siegfried and tiger face, whatever that guy's
name was.
I saw that, uh, I, I saw some behavior in other, um, not even just comedians,
but just in other
celebrities, you know, having been in LA for a bit and I thought it was really
deplorable.
And I wanted to be a person that, uh, if, if you could approach me, if you felt
like I was
approachable, that, uh, you know, there was something to be gleaned from both
my success
and failure. So I, I, I never felt like an asshole. I, I would listen to people
talk about me, you
know, Joan Rivers, I'd never met. And she called me an asshole on Stern. I'd
never met her. I never
made a Joan Rivers joke. I respected that woman. She, she, you know, she was
cool, built it in,
in cool and funny and always funny. She used all the racial slurs once on TMZ.
It's still one of my
favorite clips. I'll watch it at night sometimes before bed. It's like you put
on some creams and
then you'll watch Joan. She's like, somebody's at this and somebody's at this
and somebody's at this
and somebody's at this. And people just need to get used to it. Well, Joan, you
know, called me an
asshole. And I remember I was, you never met her, never met her, never met her.
And I was, uh, man,
I was like mortified. Why did you think that? Oh, I either a, I'm such an
asshole that it's reached
Joan Rivers, like the rumor of it or that what is going on that people think
this or just that I've
become a name that people for some reason associate with it. You know what? If
I was going to get
really, um, if I was going to go deep into like the, the, the human element,
the id, super id,
what's going on with this? I would say I, the one thing I didn't realize how to
do was, um,
reach out early in my career when I broke through to, to celebrate some of the
comedians that came
before me. If I met you, I would, I would, I met Dice at the pizza place. Um,
and, and I can only,
I'm guess, I'm guessing, but maybe it, maybe it hurt her that I had arrived and
maybe didn't shout
her out. Right. You know, cause we're all so fucking sensitive. Yeah. And what
I've learned about her
from other people was, Hey man, she was, she was very sensitive to see where we're
all that. Um,
and so the, having people call you an asshole from time to time is, uh, it was
actually kind
of, um, it was confusing. Was it uplifting in a weird way though? Was there
part of your ego or
part of you? I mean, you're part of any of our ego where they're like, at least
they're talking
about me. Well, the, the part that you, cause you've had, and I ask you this
cause you've had
some, I mean, you know, there's not anybody else that I could think of that's
had this same
story that you've had. The best part about being, being considered, um, you
know, being ostracized
in a way where people think you're like the bad guy or an asshole or whatever
is for me, I can only
talk about my experience, but for me, it was like, good. This is an armor to
keep the people that have
hurt me my whole life away. Cause they're a little scared of me because they
think I'm something beyond
just a regular guy, which I'm just a regular dude. I'm just funny for an hour
and a half on stage.
And otherwise I'm pretty basic, you know, I'm jeans and t-shirt kind of guy.
And, uh, you know,
so that to that extent, I didn't mind, uh, uh, I didn't mind everybody, uh,
having an opinion on me
and I didn't really mind if it was harsh. It just started to hurt when my fans
were really included
in my family, you know, even my family, like why'd this tabloid say this about
you? Or, um, that's
when it started to get a little confusing. Cause I was like, Oh, I'm just here
to make people laugh.
And you know, I get it. Nobody loves everything. Right. People don't love you,
but, um, it was a
little weird, you know, even looking back and talking about it now, it's still
like, what did I ever do
to anybody except just try to get laughs? The greatest thing that we can do is
try to get laughs.
Yeah. I'm trying to, it wasn't like I'd get laughs and people would be withering
and dying. And it's
like, give me all the power of laughs to where it's like you would leave an
empty fucking theater
of just corpses. And you're like, I'm an asshole. I steal souls. It was just
like, no, I just want
to make you forget about your fucking hardship for a little bit. And if people
take issue with that,
then that's what other people think of you is none of your business. Yeah. You
know,
when I try to, I try to implement that. Yeah. I don't know why. I wonder why
that thing,
why that thing surrounded you so much then that it was like, I remember the
first time. Um,
yeah, I just wonder why that surrounded you so much, but it doesn't now, which
is kind of funny
because if you talk to people now, uh, or even somebody talks to you, it's like,
no, once you talk
to me and once you hang with me, you'd be like, Oh man, he's, he's pretty level
headed. You know,
I'm not a person that has a lot of, uh, foibles otherwise, man. I'm pretty, uh,
you know, I'm a,
I'm a Boston kid and we say it like it is and wear our heart on our sleeves and
I'm not into playing a
character. I'm into my journey for the next many years of my life is like, how
can I be more present?
How can I be more real? How can I be more, um, uh, authentic? Yeah. You know,
organic. That's,
that's my journey now. Wow. Yeah. It's interesting, man. It's such a, yeah.
Cause after we hung out,
I was like, ah, I was like, I don't know what, I don't know if, you know, I
didn't know what thing
I was like, Dane seems so like normal and, and, and it had, I had never. And I
told you my preconceived
notion of you. Yeah. I was very honest with you about saying, Hey man, I prejudged
you as well. I
thought like, Oh, this is a guy that's like trying to make it out of some other
career. And yeah,
is he really a purist? And, and I was, uh, you know, I, I wrongly did the same
thing.
Yeah. I took that car. You left my house that day. And I was like, I could grab
a lunch with
that guy. I like him. You know, you're really, uh, you're deep, you're a deep
guy and you're
fucking funny. You know, you're, you're, you're funny. You deliver on stage.
Everybody knows
that everybody's chatting about it. Um, so I admire that, but I like that you
can do this.
Right. You know, I wish in some ways I had more of this maybe around that time.
Right. Where the fuck were you, Theo? You could have helped. I don't know, dude.
I was probably
doing cocaine. Come on. Crispy Vaughn tongs. Let's go. Hashtag Crispy Vaughn
tongs. Well,
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Why Did People Hate Dane Cook?

Why do you think you were like easy to hate if that's okay question? Well look,
I was like young and wearing fucking cool jeans
Fur, not fur. Did you ever wear fur? Be honest, dude. I never wore fur. I never
wore fur. Not faux fur. Is that what you call fake fur?
Faux? Is it hawks? First, hopefully, I would assume being from Massachusetts,
you would go with real fur, dude. That's Paul Revere country.
You guys have earned the real fur, but did you ever wear fur? No. I did not. No,
no, we didn't, but my mom had some fur coats.
So I probably did throw one of my mom's fur. But not once you got it popular.
No, once I, once I made it, I was, it was like, uh, you know, tight shirts and,
um, I, you know, the image that I was trying to create, um, Steve Martin, the
white suit, the, the, the dichotomy of being like, Hey, I'm dressed up really
nice, but I'm being like wacky.
And then dice, of course, the element of, uh, of like bad-ass and, and cool
Eddie Murphy and the, you know, leather outfit. I was figuring out, Hey, you
know what? My thing is like, I'm, I'm coming up with this next generation and
dudes are more fashionista in many ways than, you know, in the past.
So I just found my niche and I played up on that. And then I, I could
understand years later, looking back, like, Oh my God, I wouldn't have liked
that guy either.
You know, it's, it's, uh, you know, hindsight is, uh, an incredible, incredibly
prolific thing. Um, and you don't know what the time you just think you're, you
know, I don't know, just you're doing the best you can to try to create an
image that, um, that resonates.
Yeah. You know, and you did a great job. So at certain points, cause when you
say like, you know, the jealousy and did it, uh, Theo, I wasn't, I wasn't
looking at that. I was looking at 20,000 people.
I wasn't looking at the one guy in the comment section who was like, of course.
Yeah. You know, so it's a mess or square garden. You're looking at the, the
proof that was in front of you. Yeah. Was that everything I'm doing is right.
Yeah. It was like, I was just looking at, um, the love from the fans that I had,
uh, found or who found me. So it really didn't hit me until many, many years
later of like, Oh wow, there's really some genuine animosity.
And it's just up to me to have conversations like this with my peers, with the
brotherhood of comedy to say, uh, I'm accessible. And, uh, you know, you know,
if you're a fan, I'm accessible. You could DM me. I write everybody back.
Sometimes people write me and say, Hey man, I'm having a shitty day. And I go,
here's what you need to do.
Yeah. Cause I'm super sensitive and, uh, I'm empathetic to that. So the
perception of me very different than who I am. Um, when I'm just, you know, at
home kicking it.
Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. Yeah. Cause that's what I mean. Yeah. If I'm real
candid, it was just like, yeah, what is Dane? Like Dane seems like this, I don't
know. Yeah. Like this kind of like this Pluto kind of like this thing where
people don't know, but for some reason people have felt rubbed the wrong way,
you know?
Yeah. But then also has probably had the ability to gain, garner a huge amount
of jealousy over time as well. So yeah, there's a lot of factors in there. I
bet it was probably hard to sift through some of that if you even wanted to
look at it.
It was, it was like, uh, because it, it didn't, it wasn't, even though it wasn't
affecting me directly in terms of like business, it affected like my fans didn't
like feeling like they were.
Yeah. Then if you were a Dane fan, then it was like weird.
Right. There was a period where it's like, people were like, Hey, am I, I say I
like you. And then I get attacked by other people.
Yeah. But when you start to real chair because I was at your Madison square
garden, 20,000 seat show, what you start to realize what's going on, bro.
Here's the, here's the breakthrough breaking news in what everybody learns when
you become successful and what you're learning, you know, you, you, you, right
now you're in the pink cloud phase.
Everything's, you know, everybody's finding you and discovering you and passing
you around. Um, everything is mediocre. Everything, every
single thing is mediocre. Aerosmith. I love them. There's somebody going, eh, I
don't, it's not my
thing. You can't name a book, uh, a magician. Nobody definitely can't name a
magician. You can't name
magicians. And can we just admit magicians are comedians arch nemesis. I mean,
that should
be, who else is it? Yeah. It should be a movie dude. And it definitely should
be a movie.
Who else could our arch nemesis be? Um, uh, no, that's it. It has, you win.
That's it. That's the end
of that, that run right there. Um, but I interrupted, but everything, no,
everything is, you find out,
uh, success introduces you to, uh, mediocrity because then everybody outside of
your realm,
um, is going to tell you why you're not that great and what sucks about you.
You know, you can, we're
watching careers right now of people, let's just say in the last five years.
And what do they do?
They get white hot. And then, um, you know, and then it's like the spanking
machine. Everybody's
going to get tagged and we're going to find things out that we don't like about
them. And then what
happens is your, your fan base, the bottom of the V right here, they're still,
you know, pretty much
rock solid in place. Most of them. And then everybody out here is, um, in the
business of
telling you, yeah, we don't care. Right. And they want to tell you, and they're
going to reach out
to tell you all we can do. Just come up with the next set, next joke, get up on
stage, try to have
a few more laughs with our friends, family, and then, um, do one more show.
That's, that's what I'm
doing. Yeah. We definitely seem to be really fearless. You know, that's for
sure. Like just to,
because I grew up in fear to continue to keep your head down and keep going,
grew up in fear,
when you grew up in fear based, which I was then man, just, you know, once I,
once I found
this, um, conduit comedy, once I had that, it was like the dilithium crystal. I
had fucking
superpowers. I had this ability to actually be, um, present and important to
people when I didn't
even feel important to myself. Right. It took a long time for all those things
to equate,
um, uh, a well-rounded, healthy lifestyle, both on and off stage, you know, to
be able
to have great conversations like this. Yeah. You know, do you, um, did you have
an idea what
you thought like being a star was or something like that before you like hit
like a level of,
a stardom popularity? Oh, what a great question, man. That, that, um, I
remember, um, Rob, you know,
seeing guys like Robin Williams playing, uh, like Garp and like a world
occurring to Garp. Yeah. Oh,
dude, that's one of my favorite books of all time. Love it. Book amazing. The
film, you know,
awesome. He was awesome. And I was looking at a lot of comedic actors, um, and
admiring that they could
tell different kinds of stories. They could make you laugh. Maybe they can make
you cry to me. That
was like, uh, an, an interesting, um, route for a career. So what I did in
where it plays into the
question is like, I, I took my foot off the gas of what I knew people had, um,
discovered me as,
and was like, I'm going to downshift and try to go in that direction so I could
have some more
credibility and outside of comedy. Um, deconstructed myself really in the mid,
you know,
2000 era. You mean like with films and stuff like that with that kind of work?
Yeah. Cause then I
started getting some opportunity to do things that were very different from
standup based on my
standup. Kevin Costner was a fan of my standup and then said, do you want to
play a serial killer
in this movie with me? And it was like, suddenly that was when I felt a certain
level of stardom
when I was, um, not so much from the comedy ever, but from the, um, being
received. And this all comes
back to inclusion and feeling isolated as a kid, you know, Kevin Costner's and
Demi Moore's and
Juliette Binoche and Steve Carell, people that I, I love to watch them do
things that were so
drastically different. We're now saying, Hey, you, you know, right. Yeah. You're
then you're one of us.
So that's when I started to feel a bit of, um, Oh wow. I, I, I'm, I'm in a, I'm
in a different
circle. Right. I'm in an inner circle. And do you, do you feel like then you
start treating people
differently? Like, like, was there ever a point you felt like, like looking
back, like, Oh, I was an
asshole. You know, I never felt like I was an asshole. I never felt like, uh, I
had never gotten to a
place where I, like I had seen some other comedians in some other behaviors. Um,
you know,
there was Eddie Griffin is who there was pretty, um, there were some magicians
out there actually
who were fucking assholes. Um, Siegfried and tiger face, whatever that guy's
name was.
I saw that, uh, I, I saw some behavior in other, um, not even just comedians,
but just in other
celebrities, you know, having been in LA for a bit and I thought it was really
deplorable.
And I wanted to be a person that, uh, if, if you could approach me, if you felt
like I was
approachable, that, uh, you know, there was something to be gleaned from both
my success
and failure. So I, I, I never felt like an asshole. I, I would listen to people
talk about me, you
know, Joan Rivers, I'd never met. And she called me an asshole on Stern. I'd
never met her. I never
made a Joan Rivers joke. I respected that woman. She, she, you know, she was
cool, built it in,
in cool and funny and always funny. She used all the racial slurs once on TMZ.
It's still one of my
favorite clips. I'll watch it at night sometimes before bed. It's like you put
on some creams and
then you'll watch Joan. She's like, somebody's at this and somebody's at this
and somebody's at this
and somebody's at this. And people just need to get used to it. Well, Joan, you
know, called me an
asshole. And I remember I was, you never met her, never met her, never met her.
And I was, uh, man,
I was like mortified. Why did you think that? Oh, I either a, I'm such an
asshole that it's reached
Joan Rivers, like the rumor of it or that what is going on that people think
this or just that I've
become a name that people for some reason associate with it. You know what? If
I was going to get
really, um, if I was going to go deep into like the, the, the human element,
the id, super id,
what's going on with this? I would say I, the one thing I didn't realize how to
do was, um,
reach out early in my career when I broke through to, to celebrate some of the
comedians that came
before me. If I met you, I would, I would, I met Dice at the pizza place. Um,
and, and I can only,
I'm guess, I'm guessing, but maybe it, maybe it hurt her that I had arrived and
maybe didn't shout
her out. Right. You know, cause we're all so fucking sensitive. Yeah. And what
I've learned about her
from other people was, Hey man, she was, she was very sensitive to see where we're
all that. Um,
and so the, having people call you an asshole from time to time is, uh, it was
actually kind
of, um, it was confusing. Was it uplifting in a weird way though? Was there
part of your ego or
part of you? I mean, you're part of any of our ego where they're like, at least
they're talking
about me. Well, the, the part that you, cause you've had, and I ask you this
cause you've had
some, I mean, you know, there's not anybody else that I could think of that's
had this same
story that you've had. The best part about being, being considered, um, you
know, being ostracized
in a way where people think you're like the bad guy or an asshole or whatever
is for me, I can only
talk about my experience, but for me, it was like, good. This is an armor to
keep the people that have
hurt me my whole life away. Cause they're a little scared of me because they
think I'm something beyond
just a regular guy, which I'm just a reg