Steve and I attended the Dane Cook Isolated Incident on June 5th 2009.  I was still hopping around with my broken leg.  We got to ride the service elevator down to the floor level where our seats were.  We got to go in through the backstage entrance which was kinda cool.  Our seats were about 5 rows away from the stage. 

The first act out was some guy who I won’t even bother to look up on Google.  He was dressed similar to Dane and even had his hair styled in the same way Dane used to style his a couple of years back.  His comedy style was mirrored to Dane’s, long story-like jokes with a weak punchline. I felt like this guy was an impersonator or something.  He wasn’t making me laugh either so I decided we’d be better off going up to the lobby to get a beer. 

While we were upstairs via the elevator there was another fluffer act.  This guy was bald and way funnier than the first guy.  I had high hopes for the main event.  I figured it would just keep getting better.  We finished our beer and went back down the elevator and out to our seats.

Dane came out and everyone cheered.  He told his jokes and I laughed at some.  I laughed hard at others, but at most it was not much more than a chuckle.  He made references to his private parts and his body and how great it was.  That was not funny.  Kinda tasteless if you ask me. 

Most of the crowd was late 20′s to early 30′s but Dane’s material seemed to be geared to more of an even younger crowd.  A lot of his stuff was immature and a little crass.  Now, don’t get me wrong, I appreciate most all types of jokes.  I saw Andrew Dice Clay a decade ago and left that place in stitches.  So much so that I had sore abdominals the next day from laughing so hard.  So I am not easily offended or a prude.

We saw Seinfeld last month and he was a riot.  I guess we could really relate to his humor, it was down to earth, normal everyday life events and who can’t laugh at that?  Dane Cook was nowhere near as funny as those two.  He did do a lot of voices and “acting out” parts of his material.  He did impressions of women, and gay guys but if he was truly funny I don’t think he would have needed those physical props.

I would never pay $200.00 again to see Dane, I wouldn’t even pay 50 bucks.  He just didn’t do it for me.  It was more of a hype-fest.  Something that a bunch of young women could get all dolled up for and metro guys could go to show off their prowess as well.  The audience was more entertaining to watch than the show.  I even saw a girl there that looked like she fell asleep in the tanning bed right before the show! LOL!  All of the boyfriend’s that were with these scantily clad ladies were Dane Cook look alikes.  The women dressed as if they were at a Motley Crue concert in the early 90′s.  They looked as if they had spent hours getting ready to the nine’s in hopes that they would be taken “back stage.”

I would have to say the best thing about Dane Cook in Seattle in 2009 was his butt!  But even that was not worth paying $200.00 and fighting the traffic of Seattle to see, I can see that fanfare at home! :0)

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