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Dane Cook's bio: Dane Cook (born March 18, 1972 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He has released two full-length comedy albums, Harmful If Swallowed and Retaliation, the latter of which went double platinum[1] and became the best-selling comedy album in twenty-eight years.[2] He has performed on many television shows and in the fall of 2006 performed in his own HBO special, Vicious Circle. As an actor, Cook has appeared in fifteen films since 1997, and starred in the 2006 comedy Employee of the Month.
Cook began performing stand-up comedy in 1990. When asked about the worst joke he ever told, Cook said "just about everything between 1990 and 1994." By 1995, he was performing stand-up comedy every night, usually in Boston and later at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. He stated in a 2005 interview with Entertainment Weekly that he "never walked toward a stage and felt heavy. Ever. Even in bad places, [he] always learned something." Also in 1995, Cook made his television debut as Kyle in five episodes of the short-lived ABC series Maybe This Time, starring Marie Osmond and Betty White.
In 1998, he was featured on Comedy Central's stand-up comedy showcase Premium Blend and, the following year, Comics Come Home. It would begin a partnership with the cable channel that would help launch Cook's career to new heights. A half-hour feature segment on Comedy Central Presents followed in 2000. He made his first appearance in a major motion picture as "The Waffler" (a superhero who uses a waffle iron and "truth syrup" to fight crime) in Mystery Men (1999).
1999 also saw Cook starring in the straight-to-video Dennis Rodman vehicle, Simon Sez. In the film, Cook plays Rodman's partner, Nick Miranda. The film was directed by Kevin Elders, previously known as the screenwriter for Aces: Iron Eagle III.
Two years later, Cook pooled $25,000 of his own money from savings and retirement accounts and launched DaneCook.com, his own interactive website to help further his career and help stay personally connected to his fans.[1] Later, Cook would also become one of the first celebrities to make use of the global networking site MySpace. To date, Cook has over two million fans listed as friends on his profile.
In 2002 and 2003, Dane was featured as the voice of three puppets on the Comedy Central show Crank Yankers, which featured real prank phone calls being recorded in a studio and then re-enacted by puppets. Four of Dane's calls were aired between July 2002 and April 2003. He took on the aliases of Sav McCauley, Gene Winterbuck and Foreign Guy.
In 2003, Cook released his first comedy album, Harmful If Swallowed. The album also included a DVD which showcased his first-ever Comedy Central headlining special. Also that year, Cook released the film 8 Guys, which he wrote, directed, and starred in.