I hate that stroke and now I have to listen to him tell me all about how awsome October is and whatnot. Reading his lines about each team.
Could they seriously not find someone more, sports oriented than Dane frigging Cool?
What a stroke that guy is.
Ain’t funny either.
Tell it, brother. His constipated screechings make me thank God for the mute button.
Fox hearts Boston (even before they made it to the WS).
Dane Cook is a Boston guy.
ETA: I agree with the OP, he is cool.
Those “There’s only one October” commercials began airing in June or July, IIRC. During Braves games, anyway.
Because he’s a sellout?
Hey, you offend!
(Okay, he has gone on to make some really bad movies, but he’s still one of my favorite standups.)
Have you heard his attempt at music? Most people I know who’ve heard it says the music is taken from Chicago and the lyrics are the wussiest of wuss-rock I have ever heard.
Dane Cook is the American equivalent to Carlos Mencia, IOW, a complete tool, and an utterly unfunny one at that. The MadTv and SNL parodies of him are spot on and ten times funnier than he is. For MLB to try and court whatever audience his core fans are is pretty lame. There are tons of famous fans of the Sox they could have gotten- to have a guy on reading from his prepared script who obviously knows nothing about baseball is pretty pathetic.
What’s next, the cast of High School Musical touting the Super Bowl to court the age 14-18 audience?
I like Dane Cook. He’s not nearly as over-the-top in these commericials as he is in his stand-up. I really don’t see what would bug someone about these spots, unless you’re bringing Dane Cook baggage to the table.
I think most of the commercials have pretty shitty copy, but he does a pretty good job with what he’s been given.
This is a quote from Dane Cook himself:
“…And I’m not afraid to go anywhere to get the point of the joke across, even if I have to just blabber like an idiot until it becomes apparent that I’m telling a joke and that the audience should laugh…”
I have to believe his parents are bigshots in show business. There’s just no other explanation.
To summarize.
There’s only one October.
This is our country.
Free tacos.
There’s a starship hovering over Boston.
In hurts me to my very core to say this, but can we please have Tommy Lasorda back?
He’s not a great joke teller. He’s a story teller.
He’s more like Bill Cosby in that he tells stories, and it is his physicality, his vocal dynamics, and facial expressions that make him watchable.
I don’t always consider him wicked funny, but I do find him entertaining.
I generally hate Dane Cook, but I can’t say that these promotional spots have really bugged me much. Meh.
I cant blame Dane Cook for them but to me it looks like an MLB blatant rip-off of the Don Cheadle NFL playoff ads from 5 years ago.
Right. Which were very good.
Sometimes there’s thread like this. . .where it seems EVERY SINGLE PERSON hates Dane Cook. Except, he sells out nationwide tours, hosts SNL, gets gigs like this.
WHO LIKES HIM?
I don’t understand.
I never heard of this dude until his SNL appearance. Which was pretty good.
I think he’s from Cambridge or Arlington, Mass. So it was neat to see a local kid do well…
…then I started seeing him on every tweenage slacker-oriented movie. And the monstrosity that is “Good Luck Chuck.” I started hating his ass. And the commercials are dreadful. As Hampshire notes they are a direct rip of the Cheadle ads which were brilliant. Because Cheadle is brilliant. Cook is a hack who needs to comb his hair.
And what the fuck is “actober?”
I think his standup is very funny. I have both of his albums.
But he’s gone off the path. He’s doing movies that have no connection at all to his comedy. He’s doing TV commercials for, well, anyone that will let him. Like any standup comedian, he wants some measure of fame. The problem is that he’ll do just about anything to get it.
Dane, seriously, do what Jerry Seinfeld did. Do a sitcom based on your comedy routine. I’d say Jerry’s done pretty well for himself. That’s because Jerry, at his heart, is still a comedian. Dane wants to be an actor, even though the two professions don’t have the same skill set.
Oh, and as ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons has pointed out, Dane may be from Boston, but has been seen wearing Yankees apparel. I’m not from Boston, but I still find that inexcusable.
I despise those commercials, not just because that guy is annoying, but because they run them ad nauseum during the playoff games. Why are they shilling the postseason to people who are already watching it? Do they really think someone who bothered to tune in to tonight’s game needs to be harangued into watching tomorrow night’s game?
Maybe they wouldn’t keep setting all-time low ratings records if they’d stop making the broadcasts tax the viewer’s patience so much.
This could be a thread topic by itself. A major pet peeve of mine.