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September 22, 2008

Dane Cook Should Be A Lawyer!

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Videogum has been respectfully silent on the Dane Cook dog poop scandal, but now it's getting ridiculous. (Wait, NOW it's getting ridiculous?) Basically, Dane Cook's dog pooped all over the common area of his apartment complex. He denied it, but there was video evidence, and finally the owners took him to court. A judge decided to evict Dane Cook. But Dane Cook has attempted to appeal the decision with the most cramazing work of jurisprudence ever. From TMZ:

Cook claims he only rented the apartment in the first place because his heroes, [John] Belushi and [Steve]] Martin, used to live in the same complex back in the day, and according to the court docs filed in L.A. County Superior Court, he would suffer serious "mental and emotional" damage -- and his career would crumble -- if he was forced to leave. In the docs, Cook claims, "I know that the presence of those that have lived there before me affects me deeply and provides me with inspiration."

Cook went on to say, "In the same way that writers can get writer's block, comedians can really easily run out of ideas and 'stories'; I am extremely frightened that this will happen to me if I am forced to move out of my apartment. I've seen it happen to other comics, that something interferes with their connection to their creative muse, and it's destroyed careers."

Incredible. "Your honor, I only rented the apartment in the first place because my heroes used to live there, so you can't possibly expect me to also not let my dog shit everywhere all the time. Also, I'm worried that if you evict me from my apartment, I will no longer be able to steal jokes from actual comedians, and that something will interfere with the connection to my creative muse, depriving the world of Employee of the Month 2." I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure Dane Cook should go to jail.

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...now imagine she's white.

Posted by: mtobey profile link at 09/22/08 11:05 AM | Reply
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God, Tobey, you are killing it. Hilarious.

Posted by: Max Silvestri profile link in reply to mtobey's comment at 09/22/08 11:53 AM | Reply
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HE IS THE WORST!!

Posted by: grace6697 profile link at 09/22/08 11:14 AM | Reply
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Today I mourn for my hometown.
Boston just gave Dane Cook his own celebratory day in honor of his great works.
Look it up. I did. That's the power of e-webs.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2008/08/29/dane-cook-has-his-day/

September 17th is now Dane Cook Day.
I can't wait to see the Hallmark card for that.
I'm interested to see how one conveys in simple, terse prose a celebration of the act of running around in circles while yelling at teenage girls.

Posted by: Sean Crespo profile link at 09/22/08 2:54 PM | Reply
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Oh Dane Cook, you are so unbelievably awful!

Posted by: Steve Sanders at 09/24/08 3:36 AM | Reply
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