I don't care much, but if losing $10M makes him busto then it wasn't close to begin with.

FTP equity > anything Cook did/can do.

dane cook doesn't even have friggin punch lines people.

You mean flopping on the ground and making a funny arm movement while shaking your ass isn't a punch line?

from imdb.com

"In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his earnings for the year at $9 million."

i think cook wins that battle...

dont know cook, nobody knows him where i live(finland)

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I believe you fail. Any chance of both spellings being correct?

yes it really is debatable.

what most comic afficionados have decided is that carlin pryor are 1a/1b for eternity.


imo carlin is the comedic god, in your opinion pryor is.

Anyone else being mentioned as a possible contender is just heresy imo.

I think you're underestimating Lindgren then, he had a good year playing tournaments himself and was backing Bill Edler the whole time as well (along with many others, supposedly he's got a pretty deep stable). Not to mention he is rumored to have at least 1% of FTP which is an insane amount of money. Also we are talking about now and I think Dane Cook is slightly less popular now than in 2007 even though he has had a few movie roles that probably paid well last year.

If anyone is playing Lingren in the future, please hit and run him, then tell him he sucks and mention this.

Lindgren was ballin before poker, he has backed some of the most successful poker players around and he has stake in ftp. I wouldnt be surprised if he was richer then ivey

also lol at everyone getting owned by the grammar spell check level

1000+ posts, really? You are worse than Dane Cook.

What is with all the dane cook hate? I haven't heard any of his recent stuff (or seen any of his what I've heard described as "abortion of a movie") but I mean come on. The stuff that made him main stream was pretty funny.

This might be true..but it is all speculation. 2007 cook earned 9 mil. what about 05,06,08,[09]?

but fact is that both are wealthy at least...

r u kidding me; that's quintessential Cook (read: painfully unfunny). It's the first I saw of him like 7 yrs ago; I only wish it had been the last. He and Carlos Mencia headline my list of "comics" whose life-suck is so extraordinary that I think substantially less of anyone who admits to liking them --- and I acknowledge full-well that comedic preference is individual; to wit: I could happily sit through Mitch Hedburg or Steven Wright marathons, but I don't begrudge people who don't find them funny. Conversely, I don't find Jim Gaffigan all that great, but I can still hold someone who does in relatively high esteem. But anyone who has ever cracked more than a courteous smile at a Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia punchline will never, ever receive anything but scorn from me for their opinions on comedy.

I like Nick Swardson.

Well said. I happen to think Jim Gaffigan > Steven Wright, but I can objectively evaluate the quality of SW's comedy. There is nothing intrinsically funny about Dane Cook's "comedy." You may laugh at someone getting hit in the nuts with a baseball, but it's not comedy. And someone getting hit in the nuts is 10x funnier than Dane Cook.

BTW, accounting for preference in comedy only goes so far, imo. For example, I don't see how people can find Robin Williams to be anything but annoying, even though he is a true comedian, while Dane Cook is not.

Early routine

Routine- Kool Aid

Both of these I think are funny, and of course some of his stuff is gonna bomb, not everyone is dave chapelle

wait wait wait...

this grammar thing has to be some sort of multi level quadra uber level of some sort.

I'm still trying to make sense of the first guy who did it but spelled funny as "funy". That can't be legit.

Oh the ironing

Kinda wasnt serious and was just trolling for lame responses like "who is that in your avatar"....

But agree that Carlin and Pryor are in a league of their own.

Dane Cook sucks

BigBuxNoWhammy: edog, ur a fish for even going to
see dane cook
Erick Lindgren: lol what do you know about that>
Erick Lindgren: we went to see harland williams
Erick Lindgren: hes funny as heck
Erick Lindgren: yea it was so bad after 15 min i just
couldnt take it
Erick Lindgren: i didnt want to heckle him so we left
Erick Lindgren: he says where the f do you think you
are going?
Erick Lindgren: i said down tthe street to try to find a
funny comedian
Erick Lindgren: he rants some stuff aobut us being
unelployed bums
Erick Lindgren: really a pathetic effort by him
Erick Lindgren: so i say yea i am unemployed but i
might make more money than you
Erick Lindgren: he rambles some madness then i make
fun of his camouflage pants
Erick Lindgren: and say maybe if i had a showtime
special i would be funny too
Erick Lindgren: really the highlight of my drinking life
Erick Lindgren: as the 340 pd bouncer is dragging me
out
Erick Lindgren: yea i honestly didnt know much about
him i had seen one hbo special that was pretty bad
Erick Lindgren: i tried to give him a fair shot
Erick Lindgren: i did last 15 tuff minutes
Erick Lindgren: harland williams was hilarious btw
Erick Lindgren: and the other guys were good, laugh
factory is a good club

This. Erick is kind of a douche imo.

haha rambles some madness