Dane Cook is an Offensively Unfunny Douchebag

[Flagg]

NBCNews

Comedian Dane Cook jokes about 'Dark Knight' shootings

By Kurt Schlosser, NBC News

Comedian Dane Cook took the stage at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles Thursday night and joked about the massacre at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater less than a week after it happened.

The shootings left 12 dead and 59 hurt at a midnight screening of the new Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises."

"So I heard that the guy came into the theater about 25 minutes into the movie," Cook says in a clip on YouTube. "And I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie, but the movie is pretty much a piece of crap ... yeah, spoiler alert.

"And I know that if, ya know, none of that would have happened, I'm pretty sure that somebody in that theater, about 25 minutes in, realizing that it was a piece of crap, was probably like 'ugh, (expletive) shoot me,'" Cook said.

A mix of groans from the audience turned into laughter and cheers before the audio clip ends.

Some commenters on YouTube tear into Cook for joking about the incident so soon, if at all.

"What a hack. He's trying to legitimize himself by do edgy, 'dark"' stuff, but he doesn't have the goods. Stick to your frat boy-slaying crazy dude persona, Dane," writes ChillyCheezItz.

Others defend the comedian and his right to joke about what happened.

"In his defense he was talking about the movie sucking ... Find humor in pain. I love his comedy. Always have always will," says TheSteffeec.

Last week, Playboy model Tricia Evans beat Cook to the apparent punchline with a tweet on the same day as the shooting. "I hear the new Batman movie is really 'to die for!' Too soon?" she wrote. Deadmau5, the electronic dance musician, was among those who later blasted Evans in a tweet of his own. A debate over the merits of her comedy ensued and Playboy finally stepped in to make sure no one thought the magazine was writing her material.

Backlash over Cook's joke also comes on the heels of another comedian feeling the heat for what he said during a stand-up act. Daniel Tosh, of Comedy Central's "Tosh.O", apologized earlier this month after getting slammed for a rape joke directed at an audience member, also at the Laugh Factory.

Last summer, actor/comedian Tracy Morgan famously went to great lengths to calm the storm after joking about how he would "pull out a knife and stab" his son if he was gay.

What a piece of crap. Dane Cook, I mean.

[Crown]

*groan*

[Mr. Coffee]

Get a fucking sense of humor, you ass-chapped pussies.

[Flagg]

I have one. This was unfunny. It lacked humor. In words even a dimwit like you can understand: It didn't make me laugh. It was so unfunny as to be offensive.

[Mr. Coffee]

I was going to see the Batman movie in the theaters, but I figured I'd wait for the crowds to die down first.

Seriously, Flagg....

[Flagg]

See, that was funny.

[Mr. Coffee]

So we've established that Dane Cook is an unfunny douchehammer?












WHO KNEW?

[DPDarkPrimus]

So Dane Cook was a little trigger-happy with timely jokes. It happens.

[Todeswind]

Are we going to have a thread for ever off collor joke from now on? Seriously? When did we become the international joke police?

[Mr Bean]

Are we going to have a thread for ever off collor joke from now on? Seriously? When did we become the international joke police?

Since last week, now get a uniform and a badge. Your working the midnight shift tonight. And you'll follow procedures this time Todeswind, I'm won't have your back the next time one of your little stunts puts me in front of the Mayor again.

As for the topic, he's a comedian and he got laughs so he succeeded at his goal. In a month no one will give a shit because the only thing that can get a comedian in lasting trouble is a direct racist screed which must exceed at least seventy one seconds in length.

[Simon_Jester]

Eh. Since nobody really thinks wisecracks like this make killing sprees more likely, whereas sympathetic rape jokes may be making rape more common... I don't see how this one matters.

He may be an ass, but why get worked up about it?

[Elfdart]

The whole "Too soon!" thing is shit for the birds. One of the funniest things I ever saw was the late Greg Giraldo cracking a joke about a dead celebrity just a few weeks -just watch [3:45]:



Comedy is cruelty + timing.

[Pendleton]

Here's something unfunnier. An Aurora survivor suing WB for the violent film influencing Holmes. Really.

[Flagg]

You should post the article. It's board policy. Though I'm not a mod so feel free to ignore me.

[Dalton]

Post the article.

[General Zod]

If you really want to be pedantic it was already posted in the shooting thread.

[His Divine Shadow]

This thread reminded me of this:

[Meest]

Need to wonder how much "good" publicity it is for him, or just the media jumping on a similar story. Haven't seen the movie yet, but does anyone really think it's that bad? Sounds like just an anti-popular joke setup.

[Flagg]

I saw it at midnight and loved it. Dane Cook is just a hack whose fading star just crashed and burned.

[The Kernel]

Jesus people, shut the fuck up. No one cares how offended you were.

You know you've entered the Twilight Zone when Coffee is the most reasonable person in the thread.

[Flagg]

Jesus people, shut the fuck up. No one cares how offended you were.

You know you've entered the Twilight Zone when Coffee is the most reasonable person in the thread.

Read the thread fuckstick.

[The Kernel]

Read the thread fuckstick.

I did dumbass. It's the same idiocy as the Daniel Tosh thread all over again, it just hasn't reached 7 pages of horrible pontification yet.

[Flagg]

Read the thread fuckstick.

I did dumbass. It's the same idiocy as the Daniel Tosh thread all over again, it just hasn't reached 7 pages of horrible pontification yet.

So you are a liar or lack reading comprehension. No one, not once, "pontificated". In fact everyone, including me, has either stated they weren't offended by the material, or gave no indication that they were. The closest was Crown who simply posted "Groan". So put up or shut up.

[The Kernel]

You started a thread called "Dane Cook is an Offensively Unfunny Douchebag" and decided to put it in "News and Politics". So either you are a fucking idiot who doesn't realize that spam threads belong in Testing or at best Off-Topic OR you were trying to inspire a pontificating wankfest like the Daniel Tosh thread and are a dishonest weasel. I guess I gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed your weren't terminally stupid--my apologies and I do urge you to check yourself in for a vasectomy before you pass on your terminal stupidity into the greater gene pool as we really do have enough idiots as it is.

[Flagg]

You started a thread called "Dane Cook is an Offensively Unfunny Douchebag" and decided to put it in "News and Politics". So either you are a fucking idiot who doesn't realize that spam threads belong in Testing or at best Off-Topic OR you were trying to inspire a pontificating wankfest like the Daniel Tosh thread and are a dishonest weasel. I guess I gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed your weren't terminally stupid--my apologies and I do urge you to check yourself in for a vasectomy before you pass on your terminal stupidity into the greater gene pool as we really do have enough idiots as it is.

I did post it in the wrong forum, I meant to do it in Off Topic but no mods said anything so neither did I. Kindly fuck off, troll.