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• Monday, September 4, 2006 10:07 AM

  Dane Cook's Everyguy Humor

  Given, Tourgasm is lame.

  We're given these bickering squids who all cater to Cook because gosh, he's such a hero to them for allowing them to tag along on his coat tails. Meanwhile, the antics, like puking in airplane rides, complaining about horses, or just complaining in general, isn't funny.

  I think anybody with a video camera could get four fourth graders in a VW van and have a funnier show.

  Cook's humor, while it is incredibly safe, munDane, and cooked over the broiler of a four beer buzz and a bong load, is sometimes disturbingly funny. His ability to chew words and make them somehow more is awesome, like the guy who gets run over and kicks his shoes off in a fit of joy.

  Or the monkey in the getaway van.

  Or the small, mythological beast in the gas tank.

  As for topical humorists like Dennis Miller or Bill Maher; yes, they're funny, but they also whine. Whiners sometimes need to shut the hell up.

  Dane Cook doesn't whine. He just delivers humorous stories about everyday things that we all see, and he even says things that we probably all have said, but it's in the delivery.

  His candle is currently burning brightly, and HBO is catering to the least common denominator, but you can't always have the best show on television, even if you are the best channel on television.

  Otherwise, Heather, you rock. Keep on fighting the good fight.

  —Jesse Lassen Bellinger Read Jesse Lassen Bellinger's other letters
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