Day: March 12, 2009

Dane Cook announced a new arena tour that launches this spring in North America and eventually goes abroad. So I guess all that talk about going small with Isolated Incident was just talk. Speaking of his upcoming new DVD/CD, Isolated Incident, word from Comedy Central says he taped the special in front of 400 people at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood — not the audience of 20 that was advertised in an early video. Which leads me to believe that the small audience work was done as Cook led up to his special and will be included in some documentary form on the DVD, rather than being the special itself (because recording a special for an audience of 400 isn't quite as unique as the press makes it sound). That said, I'm still looking forward to seeing what Dane Cook has up his sleeves this time, based upon the guy I talked to after his show in November. Tickets for his Global Thermo Comedy Tour (a nod to WarGames) go on sale to the public on Friday, March 13, though they're already available as a pre-sale if you can "guess" the secret password already listed on Ticketmaster.com as SUFI. As Cook said on his site earlier this week: "Taking this new tour around the world is a desire I've wanted to fulfill for sometime now, based on the tremendous response I...