Dane Cook Famous Comedian Actor

Dane Jeffrey Cook is an American famous 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.

Dane Cook was born in Boston in March 18, 1972. Donna his mother and George Cook his father. He grew up in Boston suburb and along with his five sisters and one brother. Dane worked at Video Horizons and Burger King.

Cook was featured in 1998 on Comedy Central's stand-up comedy showcase Premium Blend.

Two years later Cook launched www.danecook.com his own interactive website to further his career and stay connected to his fans. Cook would also become one of the first celebrities to make use of the global networking site My Space. 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.

Cook's first comedy album, Harmful If Swallowed 2003 was a DVD with the Comedy Central special.

Cook launched a nationwide tour dubbed "Tourgasm" after releasing his album Retaliation in 2005, which debuted at #4 on Billboard magazine's Top Albums chart.

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 hosted Saturday Night Live in December 2 2005. He performed the longest monologue in the show's history the episode was one of the highest-rated SNLs of the season. 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 Bank north 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. In the week prior to the televised gig, he performed at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas in 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.

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.

Cook released his first single "I'll never be you" in at the end of December 2006. In the song, Dane refers to himself as a normal person commenting with envy at a celebrity.