Product Description Dane Cook Vicious Circle (DVD)Superstar comic Dane Cook comes home to Boston in his first-ever solo HBO concert! Performing at the TD Banknorth Garden in the round in front of 18,000 fervent fans, Cook delivers a hilarious, high-energy routine, touching on such universal issues as the therapeutic value of a good lie, the sincerity behind a post-sneeze God bless you, cheating and its value in relationships and the shock and awe of seeing your father's genitals for the first time. This collector's edition 2-disc DVD set includes the original 90-minute broadcast version of the concert, and 2-hour DANEgerous extended concert, and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.]]> .com Dane Cook receives a rock star's welcome from a packed arena in this stand-up concert originally broadcast on HBO. But the jury may still be out on whether Cook is phenomenally funny or simply a phenomenon. He is certainly a master of the new media. Cook has savvily marketed himself on the Internet to his target college-age audience, and they have embraced him as a fellow "bro" and "dude," who would seemingly be awesome to party with. In his timbre and physicality, he has the shaggy, likeable quality of Will Farrell, another frat boy favorite. Cook is a man of his people. At one point, he is interrupted by a drunken Boston Red Sox fan who wants to shake his hand. Cook then leaps off the stage and chases him up the aisle to give him a send-off hug, all the while being clapped on the back and offered high and low fives by the cheering audience. Cook comes complete with arrested development lingo, such as "Here's what drove me banana sandwich," that will no doubt be repeated around the dorm. Don't look to Cook for satirical insights on politics, the war, or even pop culture. His world view is much narrower. In Vicious Circle he expounds on the pleasures and traps of lying, male crying, being sneezed on, his father's robe, bad relationships, and sundry sexual matters that cannot be printed here. Cook takes awhile to get where he's going, but his digressions are often funnier than the pay offs. He puts the brakes on one story during which he mimes driving a car to remark that if he were actually driving this way, he would be all over the road. During other bits, he parses the different spray modes on Windex, and takes the phrase "being cheated on" literally. And it takes some kind of associative genius to compare a certain female body part to a high school stage theatre curtain. The less than well received Employee of the Month aside, Cook is currently king of the comedy hill. Vicious Circle offers a time capsule look at these heady good times for the great Dane. As for where he goes from here, the good news is that Steve Martin once filled arenas like this. The bad news: So did Andrew Dice Clay. --Donald Liebenson
D**G
Love Dane cook
Bought for my sister she loves it
D**3
Really Funny! But Some of the Material is Not for All Occasions
I'm a fan of Dane Cook. I originally saw Vicious Circle on TV, loved it, and wanted to own it. I bought the DVD recently, and it was a good choice.A warning: don't watch this with your parents or younger kids. It gets pretty raunchy. He goes into detail about sex, masturbation, and some other thngs . . . so I warned you!This DVD also has a second disc, which plays the entire show with deleted scenes included. One scene features two girls that get up on stage and start kissing each other. That was dumb. I have no problem with homosexuality, but I think it's stupid when girls "pretend" to be a lesbians just to get attention. It was a pointless interruption. I'll just opt for the first disc from now on. Nonetheless, Dane Cook is good at what he does.It also helps that Dane Cook is easy on the eyes. I've watched the entire show more than once and I still laugh. And to top it off, I have a nice view.Overall, I recommend it to anyone who likes or tolerates his liberal sense of humor.
L**7
Am I missin somethin?
I thought this was the one I saw on comedy central a couple yrs ago, but why are the 2 scenes that I remember the most isnt on the dvd (I got the 2 disc)?The 1st one is when he talks about going online 2 look 2 see if he had a convicted rapist in his apartment complex. He joked that what if once he click 2 see there would be a million red dots (oh yea, he talked about Oprah tellin u 2 go 2 the site & he said dont do it) & they know your lookin. He joked that they would say "THE GUY IN APARTMENT 3B KNOWS. LETS GET HIM"The other 1 I remember is how if their is something wrong w/a guys "junk" & he tells his friend. The friend would lie & say oh thats nothing wrong your probably allergic 2 your detergent.Please someone correct me if Im wrong....that this was the special that had those 2 jokes
K**N
So funny!
My favorite Dane Cook viedo of all time. My original disk I bought years ago is going bad from being played so many times that I had to buy a new one. Can't wait to watch this cinematic adventure again and again and again! I DID MY BEST!
S**R
Good stuff
This is a LOT of Dane Cook to handle, which is not a bad thing at all, it's just more than we are used to seeing of him at one time. So he tends to go off on subjects for a long time and usually with pretty funny results. I've been a big fan of dane ever since I first saw him on comedy central back in the late 90's and his material has continued to impress me. Of course it is constantly vulgar, constantly hilarious and pretty much what you can expect from a Dane HBO special.
M**E
Almost like new!
Product came in great condition. Dvd wasn't scratched.
J**N
Great gift
Good deal & great gift
N**S
"I Love It" says my daughter
This was a Christmas gift for my daughter, so here's her review:"I absolutely love dane cook and all his little jokes. I love how he can make a joke out of anything and i also love his interaction with the audience. I like how he isnt demeaning to races, his jokes are mainly sexist, and as a women i find them quite halarious. I was sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time just laughing. I would highly recomend this DVD espically if you love dane cook,or if you just want to laugh a bunch."
M**S
Unadulterated Genius!
Dane Cook is a phenomenon is more ways than one. Stateside Cook is insanely, ridiculously famous. 'Vicious Circle' features Dane, a few camera men and 18,000 screaming fans (that's right, 18,000). Whereas, here in Blighty, Cook is virtually unknown as a stand up, merely as the star of some truly repugnant movies (Good Luck Chuck anyone?).By reading reviews on the American Amazon, it appears that he is phenomenonly misunderstood by some. Accusations of Cook peddling 'frat boy humor' (which of course having never had the pleasure of meeting a 'frat boy', being from the East Midlands, I can't be absolutely certain as to how their humor might be defined, but I'm going to be all daring and guess that it isn't meant as a high compliment), an accusation which couldn't be further from the truth. Dane Cook is an incredibly perceptive observer of the kind of micro-sociological detail that has made Peter Kay such a huge celebrity over here, the material on 'Vicious Circle' is no where as cute, cuddly and nostalgic and everything Peter Kay has ever done, Dane Cook's tales of petty crime, bad relationships and obnoxious atheists are edgy, riven with frenetic energy and described with a weirdly poetic vigor that lifts him head and shoulders over 99% of other stand up comedians, yet though there is a definite esoteric quality to his work, he has a basic every man essence which lends him the massively broad appeal evidenced on this DVD.Only Stewart Lee and Louis CK rank above Dane Cook in my personal stand up pantheon.Phenomenonly brilliant!
K**.
Not As Good As I Thought It Was Gonna Be. Kinda Boring
I've enjoyed Dane Cook in film. But his standup is just so so. I cracked a smile every now and then but I had no hard belly laughs. In fact I only really Chuckled a few times. Even though he's very energetic, I still prefer Bill Burr and Christopher Titus.2 disc DVD. Disc 1 the 90min hbo special. Disc 2 the 130min unedited version.
C**A
Only one disc works
The second disk doesn’t work in anything so I can’t watch the extended version which I was most excited for
N**.
Habe Codierung überlesen
Habe beim Bestellen leider nicht gesehen, dass die Codierung nur für den US Amerikanischen Markt und die DVD auf meinem Player nicht abspielbar ist. Auf dem Laptop geht es aber. Daher nur 4 Sterne.
A**N
Dane Cook is Brillant!!
I love this DVD. Its a must have for any DC fan!! I have probably watched it a thousand times and it still makes me laugh until I cry. I definitely recommend this stand-up performance!!
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