Dane Cook

Dane Cook is one of those names that splits a room, and I find that polarization genuinely interesting. He blew up in the mid-2000s as a stand-up phenomenon, riding observational and often crude material to a level of arena-filling fame few comedians reach. His run of albums, from Harmful If Swallowed through Isolated Incident, sold like rock records, and he packed Madison Square Garden. The Boston native then stretched into acting, voice work, writing and directing. I respect how aggressively he used early internet buzz to build an audience, even if critics never warmed to him. Love or hate his style, he understood momentum.

Name (English)

Dane Cook

Name (Japanese)

デイン・クック

Reading

でいん・くっく

Born

March 18, 1972 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat

Origin

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

voice actor / television actor / film actor / screenwriter / film director

High school

Arlington High School

University

Bunker Hill Community College

• Official sitehttps://www.danecook.com
• Xhttps://x.com/danecook
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dane%20Cook
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q359969

Tags

• Massachusetts
• voice actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.