Dane Cook: "Don't Do These 10 Things at a Concert!"

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Dane Cook wants to make you laugh.

The Boston-born funnyman and actor is on a nationwide tour supporting the release of his latest comedy album/DVD, Comedy Central's ISolated INcident, bringing his foul-mouthed wisecracks about watching porno, drinking alcohol… and his dead mother. His next stop: Nov. 5 at New York's 20,000-seat Madison Square Garden.

But first, to help out any potential ticket buyers, SPIN asked Cook -- a devout music fan -- to reveal his 10 live concert "Dont's." You can add yours in the comments section below:

10. "Don't eat anything off the arena's food grid. Hot dog, popcorn, and beer sold at concessions is fine. Stay away from the guy selling king crab legs out of an ice bucket behind a trashcan."
9. "Don't use a bathroom stall if the prior occupant comes out covered head to toe in their own shit."
8. "Don't buy tickets from a scalper if it's printed on what he nervously coins, 'advanced napkin technology.'"
7. "Don't enter the mosh pit hoping to meet that special someone. Yeah, that's not really the place that kind of stuff goes down."
6. "Don't think you will impress a crowd who has fake lighter applications on their cell phones by actually lighting your cell phone on fire."
5. "Don't -- DO NOT -- try to catch the confetti."
4. "Don't try to cop a feel of the girl's tit crowd surfing over you. Karma corrects that by instantly having her high heel jam in your eye socket."
3. "Don't yell out, 'I JUST BEAT THIS SONG ON HARD MODE IN GUITAR HERO!' We all know it wasn't you; it was your nine-year-old mentally challenged cousin."
2. "Don't dance if you are a guy, and don't just stand there if you are a girl."
1. "Don't puke until all the lights go out. When they do go out, don't puke on your friends. If you are surrounded by friends, ask yourself, 'Who would never give me a ride to the airport?' then exhale like a flu-riddled dragon on 'em."
Posted By idiot

11.03.09 12:23 PM

Is this really worthy of an article? I mean really, are any of these things 10 things funny?

Dane Cook is an idiot. It's comedy with training wheels. It is really disappointing that he has become the face of comedy for our generation. Talk about dumbing down.

Posted By Krunch

11.03.09 12:45 PM

I just never got Dane Cook. I'm sure he's funny to many people. I'm just not one them.

Posted By smulligan

11.03.09 1:28 PM

Since when is Dane Cook still relevant?

Posted By Pretzel boy

11.03.09 3:38 PM

Never...go mosh pitting with flip flops. You will lose them and probably pull a toenail backwards.

Posted By idolhands

11.03.09 3:41 PM

I think Dane Cook is the most unfunny over rated comedian on the planet...This article was a waste of my time and your energy to type. Cmon spin.....you can do better than this.

Posted By Songs & Cigarettes

11.03.09 3:46 PM

Wamp, wamp.

Years since he's been on top and Dane Cook still remains unfunny and uninspired.

What about concert couples though? Maybe that's opening a can of worms.

http://songsandcigarettes.blogspot.com

Posted By fc13bre

11.03.09 5:20 PM

Hilarious....people need to take take form their own self involvement and enjoy simple things

Posted By EC

11.03.09 6:04 PM

Spin printing this was meant to be ironic. right? right?

Posted By VanWinkle

11.03.09 8:39 PM

Don't go to a Dane Cook show.

Posted By HazeFace

11.03.09 8:40 PM

AWWWW WAH! Like all of you people who posted above are actually "inspired OR funny" the guy has been around for awhile and quite frankly he is funny.If you don't get it fine...there are hundreds of people that think he is, and I'm one of them...so to 'idlehands" "smulligan" and "idiot"(aptly named) a big SUFI to ya.

Posted By AnyOther

11.03.09 10:47 PM

I'm willing to give Dane Cook the benefit of the doubt and assume that perhaps once in his life he'll say something funny that he came up with all on his own. Yep, still waiting...

Posted By STRAIGHT DAVE

11.04.09 12:10 AM

How about not be Dane Cook? That sounds like something not to do at a rock show. He'd go up and tell an absolutely hilarious and all-original joke like, "HEY! What's the difference between men and women? Men LIE!" HAHAHAHAHAHA yeah, I don't think so. Dane Cook should go back into his exile. Spin should be ashamed for running something on their website with this absolute dipshit of a comedian.

Posted By Hmm

11.04.09 12:32 AM

I don't feel like Cook is the type of comic that will translate well in writing. Maybe if he was saying... yelling... this and had some crazy gestures. But on print. Spin I would've assumed knew better.

Posted By Anonymous

11.04.09 12:47 AM

i can not express how not funny this was

Posted By Shamrock

11.04.09 2:11 AM

Dane Cook falls into my Creed/Milli Vanilli list. Artists who have sold millions of albums and sold out concerts, yet you'd be hard press to find someone who admits they like them or bought on one of their albums

Posted By ShaneTrane

11.04.09 2:24 AM

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH! THAT GUY IN THAT STORY HAD SHIT ON HIM!!!!!!!!

i don't even think being covered in such a thing could possibly make me feel as dirty as i do now after reading this.

Posted By Anonymous

11.04.09 4:44 AM

I love the fact that your grammar is atrocious and your trolling is unoriginal. (The preceding sentence contains sarcasm.)

Posted By Anonymous

11.04.09 8:51 AM

dane cook is amazing (:

Posted By JamesCook36

11.04.09 9:11 AM

Some of these aren't even jokes. You'll also note that many of the concert- going do's and dont's seem to be only relevant at a Warp tour concert. Or a Dane Cook show. When was the last time you puked in a mosh pit? Ahhh, there was a time when college humor was Mitch Hedberg. Those were the days. But hey, if shrieking truisms while flailing your arms around then I guess Glenn Beck is a pretty hilarious comedian too.

Posted By DaneCookSucks

11.04.09 10:42 AM

Stop trying to be funny, and Dane...please stop making movies too!!!

Posted By Anonymous

11.04.09 12:16 PM

John Hoogasian. Now he's funny....

"I was looking at this guy through the scope of my rifle the other day...."

That's the whole joke. Hilarious and brilliant.

Posted By Anonymous

11.04.09 12:38 PM

I don't want to tow the line on the hatred for this guy, but seriously, I didn't laugh at any of these jokes and I doubt he spent more than 10 minutes thinking these up. I've had funnier txt msgs with my friends then this, why are we multi-millionaires?

Posted By Anonymous

11.04.09 12:41 PM

nope...not funny at all.

Posted By Anonymous

11.04.09 3:43 PM

no one here likes dane cook or think hes funny.

his audience are teenage girls, enough said

Posted By The Geneius

11.04.09 7:58 PM

Notice all of the a$$ holes that posted negative comments are neither funny nor have the balls to use a name.

Posted By mollxdollx33-danecookisabamf

11.04.09 7:58 PM

you know what. you're the dumbass. Dane Cook is one of the funniest people out there. You're just jealous because all these things probably apply to you. you sucky guitar hero player.

Posted By Anonymous

11.04.09 7:59 PM

I think Dane Cook is amazing. I love his jokes. He's hillarious. :)

Posted By Anonymous

11.04.09 8:00 PM

I think he's funny. Overrated? Yes. But funny enough. And so what if his audience is teenage girls? At least he has one..

Posted By WifeyandMommy

11.04.09 8:00 PM

Wow, those of you bashing on Dane are total a$$holes. Why even read the article that clearly states that it's about Dane Cook if you don't like him? Ridiculous. *insert middle finger here*

I think he is hilarious and a few of these "not to do's" actually made me laugh. So there.

Posted By xhallleeeyyy

11.04.09 8:01 PM

Hey, it might not be THAT funny, but let's not bash Dane about it. Obviously a majority of people somewhere believe hes funny or he wouldn't still be a household name. Most of his jokes are hit and miss with me. Sometimes he's not that funny, he just says some off color things, but at least he has the balls to get on TV and say what he says.

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