It isn’t a stretch to say that Cook, for at least a couple of years, was more popular than any standup in American history. 4 slot on the Billboard 200, right above Coldplay’s X&Y and the Black Eyed Peas’ Monkey Business.

It was only 15 years ago that Cook released Retaliation - his double-platinum second album - which occupied the No. The man has all the accumulated baggage of a superstar: 2.9 million followers on Twitter, an additional 725,000 on Instagram and the reflexive blasé name recognition from anyone who came of age at the turn of the millennium.īut somehow, he still seems completely untethered from pop culture in 2020. It’s kind of weird that Dane Cook isn’t famous anymore.