Like him or hate him, you have to admire Dane Cook’s willingness to meet a challenge head on.
The popular but polarizing comedian set a new record for standup when he did seven consecutive hours at Hollywood’s Laugh Factory starting around midnight New Year’s Day and ending close to 7 a.m. Wednesday. It was the latest salvo fired in what has become an interesting rivalry with fellow comic Dave Chappelle, whose record of six hours and 12 minutes Cook obliterated Wednesday morning.
It all started back in April 2007 when Cook broke the club’s long-standing record for a single standup show when he did three hours and 50 minutes, eclipsing the near-three hour mark set by the late, great Richard Pryor in 1980. A few weeks later, Chappelle came in and did six hours and seven minutes, which stood until December 4, when he surpassed his own best by five minutes.
Then, along came Cook to get his record back. Someone please alert the Guinness Book of World Records.
“I never sat down or left the stage,” he wrote on his website later that day. “The show started with a small mighty crowd of aruond 60, and 35 of us were together this mornnig still laughing and recappnig 2007 with laughs galore. It felt fantastic.”
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