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Dane Cook impersonating Tom Cruise on JIMMY KIMMEL

post #1 of 29
2/7/06 at 12:11pm
Thread Starter 
This is so funny, it's painful:
http://gorillamask.net/cookkimmel.shtml

And there's a whole lot more Dane Cook clips that can be found here:
http://forum.ebaumsworld.com/archive...p/t-22822.html
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post #2 of 29
2/7/06 at 12:15pm
Painful, yes. Funny? No. Making fun of Tom Cruise's Oprah outburst is like making jokes about the Paris Hilton sex tape. It's easy, obvious and weak.
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post #3 of 29
2/7/06 at 12:20pm
For what it's worth Dane did that like a day after the event happened.
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post #4 of 29
2/7/06 at 12:22pm
Yes he did.
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post #5 of 29
2/7/06 at 12:23pm
It's still not really all that funny.
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post #6 of 29
2/7/06 at 12:24pm
Not anymore, no... but the day after it happened it got a laugh out of me.
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post #7 of 29
2/7/06 at 1:06pm
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Originally Posted by Nick Nunziata
For what it's worth Dane did that like a day after the event happened.
That would make more sense, though I still think the whole "I'm copying something we're all laughing about anyway" is a weak source of comedy. It's just the pop culture equivalent of gags about how people always leave the top off the toothpaste.
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post #8 of 29
2/7/06 at 1:59pm
I really seemed to have missed the Dane Cook boat.
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post #9 of 29
2/7/06 at 2:01pm
Shit! Where's that "late pass" picture!
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post #10 of 29
2/7/06 at 2:16pm
I want to find Dane Cook funny. I just don't. Why did Mitch Hedberg have to be a junkie? He was the only comic his age I really found funny for a loooong time.

Edit: Kimmel is even less funny. And far uglier. What is Sarah Silverman thinking?
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post #11 of 29
2/7/06 at 2:42pm
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Originally Posted by sackley
I want to find Dane Cook funny. I just don't. Why did Mitch Hedberg have to be a junkie? He was the only comic his age I really found funny for a loooong time.
I submit Patton Oswalt as contradictory evidence, your honor. The 2 1/2 hour uncut version of his performance at the 40-Watt in Athens, GA is absolutely priceless.
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post #12 of 29
2/7/06 at 2:44pm
That's some edgy stuff.
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post #13 of 29
2/7/06 at 2:58pm
Dane Cook has outlived his welcome.
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post #14 of 29
2/7/06 at 3:00pm
I still enjoy his standup. But this nonsense just isn't funny now, nor was it funny when it came out.
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post #15 of 29
2/7/06 at 3:39pm
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Originally Posted by Nick Nunziata
For what it's worth Dane did that like a day after the event happened.
In fact, he was so on the ball with this one that I'm not even sure most of the audience knew what he was aiming at.

I can confirm this is vintage funny.
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post #16 of 29
2/7/06 at 6:37pm
Next week..."Pussy Dane apologizes to Tom Cruise."
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post #17 of 29
2/7/06 at 6:41pm
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Originally Posted by Graynadian
In fact, he was so on the ball with this one that I'm not even sure most of the audience knew what he was aiming at.
The world's biggest movie star flipping out on one of the most popular chat shows in America? It's hardly an obscure reference - it was all over the TV and internet within hours of it happening.

Just copying what Cruise did? It's hardly the height of wit or invention. It's like when the Scary Movie series simply lifts a famous scene from another film but doesn't actually do anything other than repeat it with different people. It's not a joke, it's the comedy of recognition.
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post #18 of 29
2/7/06 at 6:42pm
Whereas if Cook had imitated Cruise in MINORITY REPORT it would have been a comedy of precognition.
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post #19 of 29
2/7/06 at 6:43pm
But only if he'd done it in 2001.
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post #20 of 29
2/7/06 at 7:31pm
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Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
The world's biggest movie star flipping out on one of the most popular chat shows in America? It's hardly an obscure reference - it was all over the TV and internet within hours of it happening.
I remember seeing the Tom Cruise segment on the internet within hours of it happening, but the major media sources didn't pick up on it for a while. It could have been sensitivity towards outing a major media star, as the implication is that the Tomkat relationship is a sham, or it could have been ignorance of Dane Cook. The episode kind of entered the vernacular organically, grassroots style. It was an internet phenomenon, meaning that a major segment of the population was not initially made aware. Cook went on shortly after the original event, and it was almost an inside joke at the time of performance. Dane Cook's core audience is from the demographic most likely to get Cruise's behaviour forwarded to them.

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Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
Just copying what Cruise did? It's hardly the height of wit or invention. It's like when the Scary Movie series simply lifts a famous scene from another film but doesn't actually do anything other than repeat it with different people. It's not a joke, it's the comedy of recognition.
It's funny and it made me laugh effortlessly and repeatedly. I'm not sure if it was a primal laugh or a cultured one, and it doesn't matter to me. Perhaps it is a dated joke.
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post #21 of 29
2/7/06 at 8:23pm
I also found it funny back then, but mostly because Cook seemed to be even more excited than Cruise himself.
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post #22 of 29
2/8/06 at 12:55am
Thread Starter 
I was under the impression that the video might be old considering that Cruise acted the way he did on Oprah last summer, but the link to said video was posted among a series of recent stories on one of the silly gossip sites I frequent, so I figured I would share it with you guys no matter what.
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post #23 of 29
2/8/06 at 1:06am
What is a post about Jimmy Kimmel doing under "Humor"? Did he impersonate Conan O'Brien?
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post #24 of 29
2/8/06 at 8:44am
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Originally Posted by eatatjoes
I submit Patton Oswalt as contradictory evidence, your honor. The 2 1/2 hour uncut version of his performance at the 40-Watt in Athens, GA is absolutely priceless.
Oswalt keeps cropping up on these sort of discussions, so I guess I should check his stand-up out. I just haven't been particularly wowed by anything else i've seen him in.
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post #25 of 29
2/8/06 at 1:12pm
is this the "comedian" who runs about the room doing an impersonation of an Alien like in the movies?
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post #26 of 29
2/9/06 at 7:20am
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Originally Posted by Graynadian
The episode kind of entered the vernacular organically, grassroots style. It was an internet phenomenon, meaning that a major segment of the population was not initially made aware. Cook went on shortly after the original event, and it was almost an inside joke at the time of performance.
It was on Oprah. Seen by millions. At a time when Tom Cruise and Katy Holmes were all over the media because of their respective tours for Batman and War of the Worlds.

How can that be "organic", "grassroots" or an "inside joke"? I can't think of something that could be less obscure than what a world famous movie star does on a world famous chat show. Or are you saying it was only when people saw it on the internet they realised that Tom was acting a little nuts?
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post #27 of 29
2/9/06 at 7:36am
Don't under-estimate the gullibility of the public, Dan. There's every chance people needed it pointing out to them.
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post #28 of 29
2/9/06 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
It was on Oprah. Seen by millions. At a time when Tom Cruise and Katy Holmes were all over the media because of their respective tours for Batman and War of the Worlds.

How can that be "organic", "grassroots" or an "inside joke"? I can't think of something that could be less obscure than what a world famous movie star does on a world famous chat show. Or are you saying it was only when people saw it on the internet they realised that Tom was acting a little nuts?
A fragment of Western society watches Oprah on a daily basis, whereas a majority of Westerners now like know about Cruise's antics and consider him accordingly. It took a while for that majority to accumulate, especially with Cruise's exceptionally manicured pre-2005 public image.

I remember seeing this bit on Kimmel live, and it came across as fresh and relevant. Given the relevance of timing to humour, it is hard to determine how fresh something was in hindsight.

Chaplin mocking Hitler in 1933 would have been fresh, even if it was just mocking.
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post #29 of 29
2/9/06 at 7:04pm
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Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
It was on Oprah. Seen by millions. At a time when Tom Cruise and Katy Holmes were all over the media because of their respective tours for Batman and War of the Worlds.

How can that be "organic", "grassroots" or an "inside joke"? I can't think of something that could be less obscure than what a world famous movie star does on a world famous chat show. Or are you saying it was only when people saw it on the internet they realised that Tom was acting a little nuts?

Go to his website and watch him on other tonight shows , hes hysterical, and yes dev, hes not cutting edge , but he doesnt try to be. Hes just typical observational humor done over the top, but hes honed it close to perfection.
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