Dane Cook had a justified attitude at his Saturday evening performance at the i wireless Center.
He broke his funny man demeanor mid-performance to ask security to eject a group because one member was being disorderly, saying he came to give a show and she was ruining it for those around her. He later thanked each section of the crowd surrounding the four-sided stage, but said sorry to the section the group was ejected from.
The ordeal must have gotten Cook worked up, because when he came out for an encore, Cook read an e-mail he received after both his parents died within nine months of each other from anonymous@ yahoo.com that said his parents got cancer and died to get away from his awful comedy. Cook explained the story with as much humor as one could, saying it inspired him to be a better comedian. But the story ended with a second
e-mail from anonymous, apologizing and revealing that the writer’s own father had cancer. Cook responded much in the same fashion as the first e-mail he received.
But despite the mid-show hitch and the morbid heart-to-heart in place of an encore, Cook still ended the show saying, “You guys made me feel like this was my hometown. Thanks a lot.”
All serious moments aside, Cook’s stop on the Global Thermo Comedy Tour was quite entertaining. Cook made fun of everything from public service announcements, to the scrolling bar on CNN, to dropping his phone in the toilet, to adopting children of different races.
Cook spent a great deal of the show talking about the secrets men and women keep from each other including women’s synced menstrual cycles, the “What would you do if” game, and men’s secret hidden folder of porn and how women could get their significant others to admit it exists.
“On behalf of every man in here, when you ask why we have it, the answer is we don’t know,” Cook said.
Then there was his description of christening the top of the refrigerator: “First of all, I learned it was dusty up there and I had fruit loops stuck to my back.”
Posted in Local on Sunday, November 15, 2009 2:00 am | Tags: Dane Cook, I Wireless Center
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