Comedic 2.0 Tragedy.
Keith Malley of K+TG podcast (and local comedians like Dave Hughes - as popular as Hughesy's myspace account page is.. as well as true legends such as Daniel Kitson) will love this LA-Times piece about Dane Cook.
Spot on : "He's Seacrest-psyched, boy voted most likely. Cutest. Funniest. Coolest. For Cook, this is no ironic pose à la Andy Kaufman; it's a whole insufferable ethos, integral to the rise of his career. He's become huge by asserting that the comic mind does not come from alienation and restlessness but from adoration and social connection — the comic as your instant-messaging best pal... This is, for now, the Cook legacy: He signals the end of the comedian as we knew him - reclusive, angry, socially awkward, anguished, self-defeating."
Spot on : "He's Seacrest-psyched, boy voted most likely. Cutest. Funniest. Coolest. For Cook, this is no ironic pose à la Andy Kaufman; it's a whole insufferable ethos, integral to the rise of his career. He's become huge by asserting that the comic mind does not come from alienation and restlessness but from adoration and social connection — the comic as your instant-messaging best pal... This is, for now, the Cook legacy: He signals the end of the comedian as we knew him - reclusive, angry, socially awkward, anguished, self-defeating."
posted by redbarren at 3:26 PM
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