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DVD Dane Cook - Vicious Circle
Dane Cook receives a rock star's welcome from a packed arena in this stand-up concert originally broadcast on HBO. But the jury may still be out on whether Cook is phenomenally funny or simply a phenomenon. He is certainly a master of the new media. Cook has savvily marketed himself on the Internet to his target college-age audience, and they have embraced him as a fellow "bro" and "dude," who would seemingly be awesome to party with. In his timbre and physicality, he has the shaggy, likeable quality of Will Farrell, another frat boy favorite. Cook is a man of his people. At one point, he is interrupted by a drunken Boston Red Sox fan who wants to shake his hand. Cook then leaps off the stage and chases him up the aisle to give him a send-off hug, all the while being clapped on the back and offered high and low fives by the cheering audience. Cook comes complete with arrested development lingo, such as "Here's what drove me banana sandwich," that will no doubt be repeated around the dorm.
Don't look to Cook for satirical insights on politics, the war, or even pop culture. His world view is much narrower. In Vicious Circle he expounds on the pleasures and traps of lying, male crying, being sneezed on, his father's robe, bad relationships, and sundry sexual matters that cannot be printed here. Cook takes awhile to get where he's going, but his digressions are often funnier than the pay offs. He puts the brakes on one story during which he mimes driving a car to remark that if he were actually driving this way, he would be all over the road. During other bits, he parses the different spray modes on Windex, and takes the phrase "being cheated on" literally. And it takes some kind of associative genius to compare a certain female body part to a high school stage theatre curtain. The less than well received Employee of the Month aside, Cook is currently king of the comedy hill. Vicious Circle offers a time capsule look at these heady good times for the great Dane. As for where he goes from here, the good news is that Steve Martin once filled arenas like this. The bad news: So did Andrew Dice Clay. --Donald Liebenson
This is by far the best comedy DVD i've seen in a while. If you are a fan of Dane Cook's cds then there are some jokes that you will find familiar, other than that its fresh material and tons of laugh till you pee moments!!!
Disappointing
It wasn't that long ago that Dane Cook appeared to be the next best thing in stand up comedy. However, you'd never know it by watching Vicious Circle, which finds the stand up comedian filling a huge arena of rousing fans. Now I found most of Cook's earlier material much better than anything found in Vicious Circle, and many of those who loved his older material may be disappointed with what they get here, much like his HBO series Tourgasm. Many of his jokes fall flat, though some of his material, including stories about theft, are very funny. Other than that though, there isn't much here that we haven't seen or heard before, and heard better. However, despite all the negative press I've just given it, it's crystal clear that Cook absolutely loves his fans, and that his fans absolutely love him. Frequently Cook addresses and comes in contact with the fans populating the arena, and he is obviously having a blast doing what he does. That itself is a welcome sight to see for a big time star (which Cook has become), so maybe there will be better things to come from Cook, hopefully. All in all, if you're a fan of Dane Cook, chances are you'll probably disregard this review and check it out for yourself, but beware of what you're getting.
Pretty good....but....
A lot of older material presented....I'm a huge fan, but I was hoping for more new material, and this one just wasn't as funny as some of his other stuff. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of funny parts, but I did not think it was worth the twenty bucks for the DVD.
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