Reality Check Spot: Comedian Dane Cook Addresses Haters, Hypocrisy
November 13, 2009 by Stage Time Magazine
“If we’re talking about comedians and people that have taken shots at me, I don’t get it…cause I know that the Chris Rocks and the Steve Martins and the Billy Cosbys and the Rodney Dangerfields, guys that I loved, embraced me,” says Cook in an interview with New York Magazine.
“Other comics, what people deem ‘alt comics,’ a lot of them have egg on their face ’cause they’re now making talking-animal movies. ‘Cause they sold out hard-core. And they have to answer to their fans now — ‘Hey, I took a shot at Dane,’ but you’re in Alvin and the Chipmunks. You did a movie that goes against what you preached, and what you hard-core vehemently nailed me on.”
Read more: Dane Cook on Fans, Haters, and How He’s Like George Clooney



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