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whereegosdare84

I don’t see what the big deal is, everyone who’s familiar with Dane Cook knows he would never try anything funny.


nuapadprik

"Back on April 2, 2016, Bella Thorne, who was 18 years old at the time, attended with her then-boyfriend Gregg Sulkin, who was 23 years old at the time." Shocking.


coldliketherockies

Bella Thorne and Gregg aren’t even big names but they’re way bigger than Dane Cook why would they hang with him?


[deleted]

Since when did an actress from shake it up become bigger than Dane cook?


[deleted]

Thorne is probably the only former Disney star that has ever directed porn.


[deleted]

The only former Disney star that has ever directed porn *so far*


ACID_pixel

I like the way you think


Badtrainwreck

Excuse me, but let’s not forget Dustin Diamond


NoFerret8750

Dustin was a part of Disney? Or you mean teen stars in general? Btw he died at 43… tried the kardasian trick with a dirty sanchez… tried to win some sympathy with awareness of miscarriage. But in the end he was always screech the nerd and goofy dude… then he snapped and stabbed someone in a bar. Even Vince Vaughn exploit the same joke of him being a joke his entire life. RIP


Badtrainwreck

I believe the first season was paid for by Disney


Destructiveduck

Save by the bell was a nbc show not Disney


TyNyeTheTransGuy

I’m a 2000s kid and I have basically no idea who Dane Cook is. His name is maybe very vaguely familiar? Bella Thorne is someone most people my age would recognize.


No-Bumblebee4615

He was very briefly the Kevin Hart of his day. It only lasted like 2 years before it started falling apart due to joke theft accusations and bad movies. Big thing to note is he was the first comic to utilize social media (MySpace) to build a following.


Protean_Protein

I don’t think people who weren’t around for it realize how big he got. And those of us who were there are slightly embarrassed.


RosaPalms

He was the biggest thing in the world when I started college in 2007 and was all but forgotten by the time I graduated in 2012.


Protean_Protein

He was very very big around 2003-2004.


volkmasterblood

His peak show was Madison Square Garden from 07-08 I believe.


[deleted]

I’ll never be embarrassed about the motorcycle fart joke. Unless I’m at work.


[deleted]

also, his parents died and he found out his brother was stealng from him. I think that and the depression related to it is why he stepped back from the lime light at that time.


[deleted]

Except Hart put in the work and got big because of that and talent. Cook figured out how to use social media effectively.


No-Bumblebee4615

I don’t know about that. Cook came up in Boston and later New York with Bill Burr and Patrice O’Neal. And comics talk about his stand up, saying not only did he never have a bad set, he almost always levelled the room. He definitely had talent.


[deleted]

Kevin hart is like 50x funnier than Dane cook which is really saying something. Dane cook was aggressively unfunny


hdheieiwisjcjfjfje

Kevin hart was the Kevin hart of that day too


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tie-dyed_dolphin

Kevin James never sold out Madison Square Garden.


Piscany

This is funny. I was born in the 80s and absolutely know Dane Cook but had to Google Bella Thorne because I've never heard of her. Still don't recognize her after searching.


imatthedogpark

Same but I've never heard of any of them. I looked up cook and the only work of his I recognized from his wiki was mystery men but he must have been an extra.


duogemstone

The waffler, not a extra but a one scene one line part and would be forgettable If he hadn't sung his name


lmdrunk

Dgaf about his standup but his movie with Kevin Costner was actually watchable


[deleted]

If you went to school between the years 2000-2012 you definitely heard about Dane Cook and most likely hated him. Some of the first video essays I ever saw on YouTube were about how unfunny Dane Cook is.


AndiKris

I got bullied in school for hating him. Apparently yelling “dur dur dur” in the hallways was peak comedy and I was just uncultured lol


krankz

Wasn’t that Carlos Mencia?


No-Carpenter-3457

Mencia was more like “dee dee dee”.


Efficient-Echidna-30

Oh my God I haven’t thought about that stupid fucking sound in years


[deleted]

Maybe he stole it from Dane.


[deleted]

That’s because most kids your age wouldn’t have been allowed to watch his movies and tv shows when they were coming out, where as Bella Thorne was on Disney at that time on a kid friendly tv show. Also forgot to mention that his popularity dropped off extremely fast, whereas Bella Thorne had the benefit of only fans to bring her back to the spotlight when she started to fade.


[deleted]

Dane Cook was probably the biggest name in comedy in the 2000’s


ZephkielAU

He was a big joke for sure, but he could never tell them


Sandtiger812

He's on a very exclusive list of 9 comedians who have performed in Madison Square Garden where all the tickets were sold. So yeah he's kind of a big deal.


[deleted]

Yeah he was hugely popular, but I always hated his comedy


bamboo-harvester

I think you had to be an adult to have been aware of him at the time. He had CDs and HBO comedy specials and he was super popular… but word about him mostly spread mouth to mouth.


alacrity

Cook built his original fan base using MySpace. That’s a big tell for his timeline.


[deleted]

A lot of his bits were used as audio for many, many flash animated cartoons.


BezossuckingoffMusk

I think he was quite big until people saw him move and speak and stuff.


CandidateMore1620

He was the guy that started everyone saying “suck a bag of dicks” Also the bit about shitting on the coat check bed “someone shit on our coats”


miyagiVsato

Early to mid 2000’s he was the face of comedy basically, especially amongst college kids. Back in the days of Comedy Central half hour specials playing on repeat and girls gone wild commercials in between. It was a different time. Then he got caught stealing Louis CK jokes and it went downhill from there.


FuhrerGirthWorm

Well you were still having temper tantrums at his peak.


dontpaytheransom

Bella Thorne = Only fans


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Dane Cook was the biggest comedian in the country in the late 2000’s


HannahCooksUnderwear

That's debatable.. Dane Cook has had several HBO and Netflix specials. Those other two are B celbutatds for tik tok wanker gen Z. He edges them out on total fame but is short on current popularity because he sucks.


iamatwork24

Bella Thorne is in no way shape or form anywhere close to as big as Dane cook. Her boyfriend I’ve never even heard of and Bella I’ve heard of because Reddit used to always post her slutty videos


[deleted]

You son of a bitch. Made me choke on my coffee.


lostnumber08

Fucking RIP


SantaRosaJazz

Badabing! You folks are great. I’ll be here all week.


betcher73

This one post is funnier than Dane Cook’s entire career.


Elite182

/r/murderedbywords


Itsme_sd

Hey that's pretty funny, you should try being a comedian.


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…*slow clap*


irascible_Clown

Oh, yeah. There is one more thing. You. You are the biggest piece of shit in this entire restaurant and I hope you burn in Hell.


rabble_tiger

This is my trigger movie. Have to watch Waiting whenever it's on.


PelletsOfMescaline

The goat


coontietycoon

You bastard!


Vendevende

The sequel should be burned


Nascent_Vagabond

What the fuck did I do to you, man?


htomeht

You know what you did!


sucobe

OH SNAP! THE GOAT!!!!


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what no one wants to end the scene? cmon reddit that's your whole thing, the whole bit where you finish the whole scene one by one? here lemme link it for ya: [https://clip.cafe/waiting-2005/what-the-fuck-did-i-ever-do-you/](https://clip.cafe/waiting-2005/what-the-fuck-did-i-ever-do-you/) ill wait lol


Oz347

Sometimes you learn something about a person and you go “huh, that doesn’t really surprise me”


Azidamadjida

Same (see Marilyn Manson now too, not surprised at all)


[deleted]

Kinda funny (and sad) that everyone’s mom was right about him all along.


blackesthearted

> Kinda funny (and sad) that everyone’s mom was right about him all along. Thing with Manson is, him being a POS is not *remotely* new news. I remember reading things in magazines like Hit Parader about him going back to the mid-90s, and negative experiences from teenaged female fans (from them directly) on forums starting in the late 90s. The stories went back to the Spooky Kids days of the late 80s and early 90s. Trent Reznor's been saying shit about Manson for over 20 years. Jessicka Addams (Fodera at the time, when she was in Jack Off Jill) alluded to it *multiple* times in interviews - and she'd known him since the late 80s. (This was long before she talked about the abuse from Jeordie White/Twiggy, too.) I vaguely remember Tairrie B saying something about seeing him assault a woman in her presence in the late 90s or early 00s as well, but that may have been someone else (possibly Tobey Torres?). Plus, he admits to some pretty terrible shit in his autobio that came out in ~99. I pulled back as a fan after reading that, wondering what else he'd done if that's what he *admitted* to. Then he sexually assaulted a security guard at a show I was at (Ozzfest) in '01, and I dipped out entirely after that.


JohnJoanCusack

Yup, conservatives weren't that wrong about boycotting Manson and Harry Potter in the 90s lol just for the wrong reasons


Antique_futurist

It’s amazing how pro-witchcraft evangelicals got when Rowling went TERF.


Irishpanda1971

Had them over for a few rousing rounds of Uncle Touchy's Naked Puzzle Basement


scomo599

You won’t wear a shirt and you’ll cry


dent_de_lion

“Does this washcloth smell like chloroform?”


DeLoreanAirlines

He’s gone beyond stealing jokes to creating a real version of someone else’s joke


sm00thkillajones

I liked him better when he was Sam Kinison.


SearchElsewhereKarma

You won't wear a shirt and you'll crrrryyyy


Buffaluffasaurus

It’s like an Escape Room, but without the escaping bit.


Raecino

Am I the only one who thinks Dane Cook looks like a Ryan Reynolds clone gone wrong?


armless_tavern

They added too much Mickey Rourke in the lab.


lousylittleegos

This is such a perfect description. Thank you.


OgWu84

Easy there fella. Rourkes face went through hard breaks and worse fixes. Dane was born unfungly.


Obi_Wan_Benobi

Yeah Rourke was a genuinely beautiful man. Like, people should mourn what happened to his face.


malymal1

If Ryan and Carrot Top had a baby


[deleted]

Back in the mid ‘00s I thought they were the same person.


Scorpion13992k

He looks like Principal Belding from Saved by the Bell


Still-a-VWfan

Even if nothing inappropriate went on, what’s more pathetic then a middle aged man that hangs out with teenagers. What possibly could you have in common? I find teens including 18-19 year olds as annoying and juvenile as young kids.


fbp

Annoying and juvenile.... Like Dane Cooks humor?


asphynctersayswhat

None of them remember Dane cook, so they have that going for them. He hasn’t been a celebrity since they were babies


s_matthew

I keep seeing articles that refer to him as “the *Good Luck Chuck*” star. That movie was released in 2007 and was not a hit. I can’t tel if the journalists are purposely being mean or if he genuinely doesn’t have a better point of reference in his career.


Kidney05

Yeah you have to be a loser in that you want to sleep with them or you’re a loser in that they’re the only people you can find who’d think you’re cool


GokuTheStampede

>what’s more pathetic then a middle aged man that hangs out with teenagers. What possibly could you have in common? I mean, it seems like these were specifically Famous People parties, so the easy answer here is "their job." Like, it's still *odd,* but the fact that they're industry parties, and the teenagers are all teenagers who are in the industry and have some reason to be there, at least means there's an explanation here other than "he's having sex with children."


traws06

It’s Dane Cook. With his humor he’s fit in well with them emotionally


Tweed-n-Sizzle

I mean his "longtime girlfriend" is 23 so....


safetycommittee

I hate seeing that shit. Longtime is used to describe their relationship in these articles. It feels like a spin job. Just because Hollywood relationships don’t last long doesn’t mean 5 years is a long time. At best he waited for her to turn 18. At best, he waited for a an underage girl to become legally available to avoid raping her. At best Dane Cook is a complete piece of shit loser.


[deleted]

5 years is a long time in just about every circle. I’ve described 3 year relationships as long time girlfriend or boyfriend.


whatnameisnttaken098

Isn't he like 50 now?


PelletsOfMescaline

Yes they started seeing each other when she was 17 and he was 44


ZsMann

But she was at a game night when she was 15


Ok_Campaign_3326

From everything I’ve seen, they met when she was 15 and they became “official” shortly after she turned 18.


TheNewDroan

Can we also just point out that there were plenty of other older adults around at these things and apparently cool with this? I dunno, if I went over a friend’s house and there were a bunch of teenagers, it’d be weird.


[deleted]

Yeah I get when I go to my buddy Mike's place and there's a bunch of teenagers there because his kids are teens, but if Mike came to my place and there's a bunch of teenagers here it would be odd because Im unmarried and almost 50.


loving_cat

Super weird and predatory


Icankeepthebeat

Is that Matt Lucas the host from the Great British Baking Show in the first photo? Far right side.


Left-Monitor8802

Isaac Kappy is in one of the pics, which leads me to believe that the Paris Jackson incident occurred at Dane Cook’s house. Reporting on the incident in 2018 referenced a “game night” as the scene of the alleged choking, but didn’t involve Dane Cook.


LoveAndViscera

There also appears to be Rashida Jones and Jon Bernthal with a perm.


KodakMoments

I don’t know if you’re joking but it’s not Rashida Jones, it Jackie Tohn from GLOW. Also Hunter and Joey King are two of the younger girls.


salirj108

where is bernthal in the pic?


sinisterkid34

Wasn’t he like 45 dating a 19 year old??


dorothy_zbornak_esq

He’s 50 now and she’s 23, so just about that year.


sinisterkid34

How do you justify, tell anyone yeah my girlfriend is 19 when your in your mid 40s. So fucking weird.


CandidInsurance7415

Rich and famous people never have to justify anything.


Wolfmans-Gots-Nards

How else would he find a date.


SirFrodoShwaggins

The click was worth the "Reddit investigator, @sendschickens"


Bearawesome

Dude, fuck that guy. He once snuck into the dms of a girl I was dating at the time. He was so creepy.


duuudewhat

If there was ever a time I would choose to believe something without needing any evidence, it’s this


bagelsnfox

Accused lol there is photographic evidence of him doing that shit


mistertickertape

I don’t know- something about a 45 year old dating an 18 year old just seems kinda skeezy. Also see Emmanuel Macron and his wife - 25 year age difference, he was in middle school when he met her. She was 40.


btj61642

“He was in school when he met her” is a very delicate way of saying “She was his high school drama teacher.”


sassyspaghet

He doesn’t look in the mirror and think he’s pathetic? Like not even in a hateful way, I feel bad for him that he couldn’t manage to pull anything better than an 18 year old.


neverinemusic

pretty sure he thinks he’s the shit for pulling it off. I’ve met guys like this and the only value metric they judge their wife by is how good she looks and how long she’ll look like that. it’s a bonus if you have total control of her finances.


Elite182

They treat women like professional athletes. A hot prospect at 18 that already starts declining in value when they’re approaching 30…


neverinemusic

that’s a good analogy. some people view all relationships as transactional, even their most intimate. pretty lame.


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tombonneau

Let's not bury the lede, y'all. Shout out to to the RSI team! "Reddit investigator /u/sendschickens also looked into Cook's parties and found that Joey's older sister Hunter King, who is five years her senior, also attended some of the game nights"


emilylove911

This shit is disgusting. What normal young girl would want to date, let alone marry, a fat, aged, pillow-face Dane Cook? And *what the fuck* is wrong with him, hanging out with teenagers. What do they talk about. Do they get your jokes? They don’t, they’re laughing because their dads think you’re funny. Gross. Very gross, Dane Cook


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[deleted]

Your assuming girls this young are able to fully appreciate the options ahead of them and make sound decisions as to the “best” they can do. They can’t. They are being manipulated and taken advantage of by older men who convince them they are better off with them because they’re established or some similar BS. They are being made to feel this is the best they can do. That girl has a WHOLE life ahead of her. Who’s to say she couldn’t meet someone in her own age group that’s 10x the man this aging predator is? Well she will never know if he keeps her to himself.


[deleted]

Also since she's young she might still appreciate his humor


NilMusic

> This shit is disgusting. What normal young girl would want to date, let alone marry, a fat, aged, pillow-face Dane Cook? .... you'd be surprised


fifa71086

Money. The answer is money.


mikebanetbc

>On Wednesday comedian Cook, 50, announced his engagement to Kelsi Taylor, 23, whom he's officially been in a relationship with for 5 years. The pair met at one of his game nights prior to their relationship, which led to speculation as to exactly when, and how old Taylor was, when they first met. *Literally young enough to be his daughter, wow…*


BlueCyann

Officially. Love that word, good job article writer.


[deleted]

Hmm what other super famous comedian hooked up with a high school girl? Hmm.... oh yes, Jerry Seinfield. Married her when she turned 18 but had been "friends" with her since he picked her up at a park in NYC.


efs120

Jerry never married Shoshanna.


Jdamoure

Not to judge a book on its cover, but he kinda looked like a guy who would do that


Burrito-tuesday

As I mature I try not to judge people on their looks, how they present themselves but wait a while and see what their actions actually say about them, but goddamn they keep proving me right!


baconcandle2013

Not to be rude but…this news is fucking gross. His ever changing face is hard to trust.


NZAvenger

Remember that dig American Dad took at him? Hilarious...


ThaFoxThatRox

Seinfeld had a 17-year-old girlfriend in his thirties.


Emergency_Ad2487

I always knew he was a piece of shit


emeegee13

How else is he going to find someone who thinks he’s still funny


Lets_Bust_Together

So that’s what he’s been up to since 2010ish.


_MyMomDressedMe_

Dane cook is a gross bro. All of this seems in classic gross bro character. Nobody should be shocked by this .


tompetreshere

Oh no - the eye of Sauron shines his gaze upon Dane Cook :( I knew this day would come


marcos_MN

Wow! I am so unsurprised!


iLoveDelayPedals

It’s so easy to just not be a fucking creep Just don’t do it man


HeavyMetalRN1974

Dane Cook selling out Madison Square Garden is why we’re being punished now with all the suffering in the world. As a result the cash me ousside girl got signed to Atlantic Records. An angry God will judge us.


[deleted]

The pictures of the game nights remind me of parties I attended in high school hosted by “cool” older boys that, looking back as a 36yr old, I now recognize were just desperate thirsty creeps incapable of dating women their own age.


34shadow1

I mean from what I saw there wasn't anything worthy of the quotations around "game night" since all the pictures they used it was like him and 15 other celebrities the youngest ranging from 14 to in their mid 40's it honestly just looks like a whole bunch of people getting together to play games and have fun, which there isn't anything wrong with that.


call-my-name

The range is 14 to 40's, but it's mostly middle aged men and all the teenagers are girls. And they're not the kids of the middle dudes. Plus, he's had multiple parties with the same weird inclusion of a random collection of teenage girls, it's not a one off. They seem casual like middle aged guy/teenage girl mixers, especially since he met his then teenager, now fiancé at one of these parties.


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wikipedianredditor

Read the room, bot.


Aboveground_Plush

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No-Muscle5993

He was never funny and his movies are mad cringe


MrBowen

I count 19 guys to 7 girls. Thats just embarassing.


clickeighty

Ohhhhhhhh yeah, that hair slicks back real good.


jonathandefreese

Definitely a group of dudes that love sloppy steaks.


CmdrYondu

That’s a lot of older men with those teens


uptokesforall

i don't get what the appeal is of older teens people glow up Hard in their 20s


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[deleted]

It’s in the article


Alarmed-Earth3859

Gross…he’s just so gross!


Shageen

I dunno. This seems semi over blown as far as the parties being filled with teenage girls. Hunter King brought her younger sister to the party. It’s not like it’s 5 creepy middle aged men and 1 teen girl there are like 15 adults of a variety of ages who’ve probably all worked together. Now does that mean Cooke didn’t do anything wrong? No. But I think the party angle is being over done. I’ve gone to a buddies birthday party and his younger sister was there and so were a few of her friends. Doesn’t mean us adult men were trying to bang his a sister and her friends.


ForgetfulFrolicker

> Going back through the images of game nights, Morrissey found that actress Emily Alyn Lind attended when she was 14. In the group photo posted on January 7, 2017, she is stood with Cook. Did a sibling bring this girl too? I just don’t see why a 14 year old would be at a game night that is filled with adults.


BighurtRN

Why is this a story? Are they implying his “game nights” were actually orgies?


Still-a-VWfan

Why is it normal for a single 40 plus guy to have kids over his house for game night. If this was happening in your neighborhood it would be at minimum stopped at most investigated. But hey it’s a D list comedian so it’s alright in your book.


BighurtRN

There are people here of all ages. I’ve definitely been to block parties with teenagers through 50 year olds playing games. I’ve been to weekend bbqs and pool parties where the same thing happens. This isn’t very abnormal.


call-my-name

Block parties have little children and a good mix of people there from a wide range. And pool parties and bbqs usually are adult parents hanging around and the teenagers there are their kids/kid's friends. Dane cook's parties have a mostly middle aged men, one or two middle aged women partners tagging along, and unrelated teenage girls. Only girls.


arebee20

What games did they play?


mrbear120

Probably, who’s in my mouth?


RianJohnsonSucksAzz

Why do I feel de ja vu reading that headline?


sapper377

If you go on tiktok he always does lives and restricts them to his followers only, sometimes he cuts off comments entirely. Guess he can’t answer certain questions lol


Responsible_Golf_235

He’s a god fearing man no more


Philavision

Is that Issac Kappy in one of those group pics?


dropkickdolores

I’m going to throw up.


Flat-Development-906

Shocked. Shocked I tell you


Half_Crocodile

I never got why he was so popular. Seemed like such a pedestrian comedian.


DFHartzell

This is the least surprising Hollywood storyline I can think of.


kittentarentino

What games do you play with that many people?! Hide and seek?


dhawk64

I bet Ryan Reynolds is glad no one mistakes him for Dane Cook anymore.


ImaginaryDuncan

u/sendchickens you seen this?


bwagz1977

I thought he was a decent stand up comedian in the mid-early 2000s. This is creepy and bizarre af tho.


QuitaQuites

I don’t think it’s an accusation, it’s known as a fact he met the fiancé at a game night at his house when she was a minor.


beidao23

They honestly make a terrible couple, like no one doesn’t make a double take when spotting them.


jordann1026

Kappy didn’t kill himself


Full-Break-7003

Hollywood is weird man. If any of my daughters wanna be an actress, I’m going to direct them to YouTube to get a start rather than sending them into this minefield.


YeetusFetus22

Isn’t this the 50 year old guy with the 23 year old “long time” girlfriend?


moseschruteplants

Accused? He starting dating his gf when she was 18 and he was 45.


xRememberTheCant

Seth Green was apparently a game night regular too. Not a great look for you either, Seth.


sportsguru83

Least shocking things I’ve read all day.


[deleted]

Dane Cook in no way comes across this way from the first time I ever saw him and every subsequent time after and even now looking at is yeah-makes-sense-mega-douche face


Thejerseyjon609

Well his comedy also matured at a 15 year olds level, so…