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today on larry king now dane cook the come again i do it goes under oath on his new tour you want the truth from a comedian you want to go up there and be as blunt and honest and kind of say the thing that's on everybody's mind i knew going into that day that it would probably be one of the most emotional days sort of returning to where my career started where i grew up plus i tell performers do not google yourself google other people you would mire and read the crap about them and you'll feel better about yourself all ahead on larry king now. welcome to larry king now actor and standup comic dana he broke records with the double platinum album retaliates in the highest charting comedy album in three
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decades and now dan is back on the road this fall with his no tour underoath he also voices the lead in disney's three d. animated film planes a spin although the cars movies it's out in theaters august dine you and disney. by the way what you just said that's going to be my new ring tone if. he's going to write or call me and just hear that beautiful introduction i'm seeing all these commercials full planes it looks wild it's wonderful it is it is truly like the epitome of that dynamic family adventure film which you know growing up i love those things i loved when it made it legal right yeah the you know it's about the world of cars so you've got that they where the planes are all interacting with one another and it was playing a you i played dusty cropper i'm a crop duster who dreams of being in this magnificent. race around the world this is my first animated feature film what's different about doing that
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. well first of all just the experience of like going into that dark room you know you go to the dark room you see a movie and it's that experience of like sitting there in like. you know seeing something for the first time but it's the flipside of like i am creating that moment you know a little kid is going to walk into a room with his parents he's going to sit down he's not going to know what to expect and i'm creating a jaw dropping moment which is just kind of an incredible almost responsibility but it's such a blast i've shown it pieces to a couple of friends who have kids and just the look when they start to see the animation and you know hear my voice come through they you know immediately drop and just can't take their eyes off it it's wonderful using your regular voice or you do a little action my regular voice yes the way it's inversion of my regular you also did the producers at the hollywood bowl did you know played the nazi. as one of the great roles of all time it was you know meeting mel brooks and having him come to
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me and just say i want you to really hear the first thing he was concerned about our memory was he was like you going to get that accent i want to make sure you have that very good very good looked that morning my blade my so that was an incredible experience and one that i'll never forget i was like us i was a song and dance man though coming up even before stand up i was to call puerto plays back in really in high school and oh yeah i was billy crocker anything goes and i was dazzled vest cames and i was a stand up comedy cummins that is. really just always admired stand up comedians i loved watching johnny carson when i was a kid i would sneak up to watch him with my family and even though i was young and didn't always understand maybe the tone of the jokes or maybe some of the political stuff i was just i couldn't take my eyes off johnny carson i was transfixed and in hearing people laugh and in love with my makeup people i do a lot of that when you stand up to invent. sions and stuff and just too funny they
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haven't like making people laugh there's nothing like there's nothing forced people when they don't want them to go left there's not the high when you're a singer on stage it's totally different because you don't do you know how well you're doing when you're singing it is different because you know the goal is knows what musicality of standup is like our i'm going to receive and then you know get back to you when when i hear that the laugh is starting to dissipate but with the song you're you're with that band you're locked in and you just kind of go and i want to get to the new tool but first let's clear up something or write that you're supposed to do a concert you didn't do the concert and then you're going to make it up to the people what happened. i think you talk about the concert last year i know i did i did actually did a concert in boston i did a big show in boston and it was an incredible evening we did it for the one fund which was to benefit families and victims of the boston bombings and i
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went back into the show and we did a big show at boston garden a lot of entertainers came back aerosmith was back there they got like new kids on the block everybody basically who kind of come out of boston but there was some confusion as to how they would. show the concert online some people thought it was an audio feed some people thought it was going to be a video feed and because i didn't have all the information. i chose to just do the show i said i'll just do the show for the people who are in the room and unfortunately the people that were watching it wanted to see it at home felt you know they felt kind of bamboozled out of being a part of this wonderful event they didn't get to see it that was very frustrating for people and and therefore it was you know. people kind of lashing out towards me saying like why didn't you allow your performance to be a part of the show so as part of my tour i'm going back to boston i'm doing a big show and i'm giving one hundred percent of my proceeds to the one fund so my
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way of saying to boston you know if there was anything misconstrued or you thought selfishly i did something and i'm here to let you know is a good want to seen at home because is all of the material in iran to her during that material it wasn't necessarily the material it was that it was some adult material and i was about three hours into the i knew i would be three hours into the performance and i got to tell you something larry it was like i knew going into that day that it would probably be one of the most emotional days of returning to where my career started where i grew up and i'm backstage taking pictures with you know first responders and families and. i got to tell you like it was tough to even perform that night and i've been doing it twenty three years and it's never tough to perform but on that night it was it was it was a really difficult thing to kind of collect yourself and get out there because of the how personal it wasn't just a charity event for somebody that you were affiliated shortly this is my whole life that i'm returning back to to to be a part of this night so it was it was difficult it was
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a difficult day for everybody involved in then when the show finally went on it was it was an incredible show it was one of the greatest things that i've ever been participating in but it was unfortunate the way after things got cleaned up yeah thank you thank you. new stand up tour this fall why the name under oath. wider oath. i've always loved strong titles for my comedy albums i think some people you know. affiliate each title with a time in my life comedy is personal you always want to put as much of you know what's really happening in and around your life and i think that the one thing that that came through the last two years of me working on this new performance was scummy there's so much kind of backlash with comics as far as like what should comics be allowed to say and not say and i think that the comics kind of get we're getting the brunt of a lot of these stories that were coming out of the news and i felt like it was ironic and kind of over the top way of saying like listen i'm
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a comedian you want the truth from you want the truth from a comedian you want us to go out there and be as blunt and honest and kind of say the thing that's on everybody's mind nobody wants to have their hands tied when they're seeing a comedian so it was my little way of saying it starts in d.c. i'm starting in washington d.c. and what you hear from me is all going to be one hundred percent my truth there's no holding back no holds barred and you know my fans know that that's the kind of show i get a notice that choosing a place from all of the news but you can see madison's who have been right why smaller venues i never got to do with the other tour i actually skipped that i had i was in the club scene for a lot of years and then through the you know kind of college shows that i was doing that exploded and i never got a chance to play some of these beautiful houses and that's that's kind of part of the story a little bit more intimate you know the diehard fans get to be you know right up close and personal but i get to be in these beautiful you know edifice where i've never performed before each time until the internet age you build a fan base online through my space or yeah you go that route. i was spending
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a lot you know you know a lot of comedians larry there's a lot of downtime in that world you know you're kind of waiting for that performance that night and it can be frustrating you know it can be a lot of languishing and sitting around you know eating cereal and watching daytime soaps. i was not content to do that and i really was raised with a dad who was kind of a hustler my pop was a he loved starting businesses he loved self promotion and i had kind of a thirst for that so i was like how can i electronically find fans shake hands through the internet politically to pay my rent you know to meet a few people that might want to come out and see my show and i saw that it was it was a much quicker way to be affiliated with people that were fans of my stand up comedy and it just grew in those first couple years in a way that i never could have dreamed i'd hoped but never could have dreamed or seen do you still google yourself. i google you you google.
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i mean yeah you're a child of the internet but you got to be careful to be careful google googling yourself because there's a lot of haters so give called the hater net lottery because really yeah that's because it's kind of like a place where you know people it's almost like a dark alley sometimes the internet you know there's a lot of anonymous people that want to you know kind of jump out with their you know with their strange a pimp unease about who they think you are or what they know so i tell performers do not google yourself google other people you admire and read the crap about them and you'll feel better about yourself do you handle criticism well i think so i think because i've been so. interwoven with my fans and fans will really tell you like it is if they're disappointed in something and they feel so close to you they're not afraid to say like what was that why did you what made you want to do that so if you're answering directly to the fans then i think that keeps you on
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point you went on to louis c.k. show low. and you confronted he accuse you of stealing his jokes about five years ago louie you know had had reached out and basically said you know i think that we have some similar material and he was frustrated about it immediately you know suddenly i was like this you know this isn't the case you know i pride myself on being a person that. you know i never stolen anything in my life look at my whole kind of history my track record that's not what i'm about him plus i've got hours and hours and hours of material that you know if you look at it or not the case but he was he was pretty adamant he was pretty adamant at that time and some years went by and it was it was painful but you had to kind of just i had to you know speak to my fans and let him know that you know that wasn't the that wasn't the case but when louie came to me with a show and said listen you know i think it's kind of time to clear the air on this and i've written an episode that's basically about you know the situation and i
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flew to new york and i went to his office and i'll never forget this he said you know i have this i have this and i'd love for you to read it and tell me what you think and i thought like i'll put it on the morrow go to my hotel and read it he said no i want you to read it right now with me here in the room i said for the first time just read it with you and he said yeah we did that we just sat there read it was very cathartic it was very healing and by the end of it except for like a couple little questions it was like i can't not do this it was wonderful he's he's brilliant and i felt like it was closing the chapter on a kind of a how to know how to close that he forgave you did he say you didn't steal what i know really was that he wasn't about closure you know if you watch louie show it's it's not necessarily about kind of you know having that button like a joke at the end it's really just about opening up the conversation and allowing people to see and like they were two guys we had an experience and he accuse you during the conversation. did he a key i think he made mention of it during the conversation and but i. he wrote me
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kind of saying back to him like you know in my way you're bonkers to think why would i do that if i want to jeopardize a b. and c. for a couple of promises so he let us hash it out in you know using his verbiage and you know he's so happy with that i was very happy with that i was very happy with i felt like i felt like especially for my family and my fans it was really letting go of something that was kind of unnecessarily being dragged along before television before the internet everything comics so comics all the time because they played nightclubs you saw the guys act the height will see it again for two more years he's in boston yoga and i would hear these stories and of course milton berle i mean when they use each other all about yeah but once you know when certain guys started making their money in entertainment it really changes that you know philosophy what's life like today and offstage we'll find out after the break.
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here's mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call. a dog and. i'm sorry i missed the guy who cares an awful lot like you sir are you know what that is my son that no one he wishes to feature is on the on the liberal and the chris jones can you believe that it's. you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells us and facials that garbage he calls it breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that.
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they are little i was a new alert animation scripts scare me a little closer look there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news or like their family cry tears of the war you and your great things rather that there are you haven't read or cared for a wall around allowance is a story made sort of movie is playing out in real life. or live. if it possible to navigate the economy with all the details and specifics and
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misinformation and media hype will keep you up to date by decoding the mainstream. status it's in your right. well that would dane cook he's going to be in the new movie planes which i can't wait to see the trailer is great thank you they really did it was good job with this they did fun for the whole family the other day find you for this john lassiter you know pixar he called me actually as i went to an evening of pixar
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music at the hollywood bowl and i went backstage to just say hello to john and he said you know i've got something i'm working on i'll talk to a few months and you hear that in hollywood in a few months or like that's you know that's rare that somebody follows up but he called me up and he said i've got this new franchise that we want to launch and would you be a part of it i could have said yes quicker i was so excited to show my nieces and nephews and family like this is something i've never never done before who your comic idols i have a lot i mean a lot of you know those young comedians specials on h.b.o. growing up i loved martin short on saturday night live i don't think there was anything like it john ritter. but i got to mention johnny carson and then the greats like you know pryor and carl and. you know more than a lot of money started tom when he thought it was a straight comic i did the disjunct york no weatherman and he had an incredible moment carl and i think one of the most incredible. is far as like a comedian really establishing who they are in memory he had a cardboard cutout of themself as the wacky weather man and he went on and to do
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standup now he had the long hair and he was a little bit more you know and he said you may know this guy this is the old george carlin but this is me now and he left the cardboard cut out fall out of frame and he basically was saying you know i'm not doing that anymore i'm doing this new thing and please follow me now i just start was so brilliant new and he was very willing was a friend of mine udall of lenny and lenny was a brilliant comment on a bad rap but a brilliant comic you made jerry lewis recently i do i saw his documentary last summer and he was nice enough after to give me his phone number which i thought was a fake number. but i called it in the. he's just been an incredible mentor and friend and jerry lewis is i mean jerry literally was a jerk. to subject you won't touch i don't think you can really put restrictions as a comic i think that's more dangerous to tell yourself i may not be able to you know conversation a certain area so i try to not put any restrictions but it's never malicious i
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don't think it's anybody wants to you know get there or you know face pounded in by a comedian it's all going to be no longer legals is all and yes he can still be kind of comedy but it can come from a place of you know that's like to play with the audience sometimes you have to you know sometimes it especially when an audience member might you know yell something that's course or you know maybe an unreasonable topic of their own you never know what kind of heckles going to come at you i don't think that you want to put restrictions on on comedians if you're in that room and you're coming to see a standup comedy show i think you have to kind of check your own sensibility at the door and allow yourself to go with the flow that's part of what's happening in that room freedom of speech the ideas of a comic directly to you know interference no standards and practice nothing that's that's that's that's glamorous that's a beautiful thing to be a part of a lot of comedy is based on tragedy yes absolutely yeah i think that the simon
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said that all of his plays. all of the odd couple was based on his own families the wars right i would not have been a comedian if if we didn't have so many you know trials coming up you know i had a dad who dealt with alcoholism you know we were you know welfare at some point my life you know real tough times but if we weren't laughing i don't know what would have happened were you a funny good child kid. very very anxiety attacks panic attacks i was i was really exact opposite of a class clown whatever the i was the you. no kid skulking kind of in the back of the room hoping not to be called a lesson here on my show on c.n.n. we discuss your brother darryl who's currently serving time in prison sentenced to six she is pleading guilty twenty eight counts of larceny. taking always be the tragedy portion of. the stove a mutiny did yes still quite a bit you turned in your brother had to you know he was
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a bad guy you know he needed to be punished he was he was not a well person and it was a you know i think i mentioned this on your show before that's family that's the ultimate betrayal when your own family will you know put you in harm's way so he had to be punished for you know what he did and it was a great lesson for me at that point my life with a little bit of perspective that you know i had to be able to really take care of myself and my business me personally of the other family members feel about. everybody who's understood that he was you know not not doing things your way as the violence and he took the police so we didn't but he did have to read a victim impact statement it was the first time i'd seen him probably in several years and that was pretty wild to because i love i love my brother the guy that i thought i knew i adored keep in touch with him and i've never spoken to him since really what about when he gets out. i threw
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a party no. no i don't i don't know i mean it's you know i i don't want to say that there would never be any communication or you know we all have to find forgiveness at some point in our hearts so it's you never know i'm open to anything any kind of the use of an erect i have i did say one thing when i know that he was a former prison he was a corrections officer when i hired him and then he came to work for me full time and i remember saying on stage one night you know i hired my brother to protect my money not help it escape. so we have a video question from our friend eric our tell of daily rehash watch how do you like to follow on twitter and also do you find that there is a great testing ground for your sanity or most of it is actually a pretty good testing ground material wise but again different nothing beats that live crowd you know feedback but i think it helps as a writer you know it helps comics to kind of really hone especially since you have
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to be so concise on twitter you know you really lose that extra real estate who i follow i follow a lot of news i enjoy news i follow mr larry king. yeah i'm kind of a news junkie. ok we have some social media questions fill on twitter as well as if i had to stand in front of thousands of people and make them laugh. it's one of the greatest things it's almost undescribable i bring a lot of comics out on the road with me and i put them in front of those fans because i say you know having eight hundred twenty thousand people at the same time get it you will never know right off nor hand a k n k m on twitter wants to know when did you want to be a comedian and an actor when did you choose that as a profession i don't you know i think originally i want to be a ribbon dancer for. a little bit of time. and then i remember just you know again watching saturday night live and watching comedians probably junior high school you
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know fourteen fifteen i said i'm not going to college i've already decided i'll graduate high school and upon the pavement going to be a stand up and again david velasquez on google as how do you deal with hecklers. you have to go for the throat sometimes because they'll take over the show you know a good hackler sometimes there's really good hecklers i had a guy one time stand up at my show and i'll never forget he just the whole crowd still laughing ever he stood up and he said i've got seven problems and you're five of them said to me on stage it was this incredible moment like it really made me want to know like what were the other two problems that from five of your seven problems what could possibly be the other two but night after night you never know what somebody is going to get up and throw a little james on instagram arsenault would you ever tour overseas especially australia i've been down to australia i did some great shows in ireland a few years back i'd like to do more international tours so we're going to do this run of under oath in the will see where it goes from there under oath is starting
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now september tickets are in danger dot com now i start in september and it'll be you know theaters all over the country how long is the tour till late october dame cook dot com that's it ok natasha we go on facebook as what kind of movies would you like to star in who would you be a dream costar. well i mean i've done a bunch of comedy films but you know getting able to do a drama being able to do a drama from time to time i did a film with kevin costner a few years back called mr brooks where we were playing a serial killers and it was really remarkable to you know in capsulated take on a different character i'd like to do some more things of that nature outside the box we now have a little game called if you only knew that if you have a kiss first girl i ever kissed was. jennifer santa sua so where was the boston where was it was on her boob i know it was. the i did there come on me up for that
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so i know is back in boston thank. you learn the most from. probably kevin costner most memorable stand of experience standup experience i would say madison square garden sold out always out like it was remembering my dad and he used to go watch the boxing matches there when he was younger and. after the show i went up to my pop and i said i don't see you sitting in the you know v.i.p. seats he said no i want to go up to the balcony and watch you from where i used to watch the fights and it's just unbelievable that the. last time you bombed. the first segment of the show you blow many more really when you when you get will know bob hope told me once i asked him about bombing he said if you all famous famous you have two minutes.
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i'll give you the first two minutes well yeah because they're just so jazzed up and excited to see you but then you have you know and to deliver it's that ability to deliver you're just like anybody else out of those couple of minutes and known don't have those two minutes no because you know they've got nothing to lose you don't really know what they're about once people know you're you know they they know you're rhythms they kind of seen you somewhere else they expect they want to bring in what ways you left a lot of things i i mean i i love being in clubs i love seeing other comics you know my friends the guys that i grab my graduating class they still crack me up and finally the moment you knew you had made it the moment i knew it it made. that's a great quote maybes doings out and i was hosting saturday you know bugs here and here my parents you know say like art you know if you made good on it on the back my guest dane cook business planes will be out august ninth and catch him on tour this fall in under oath and don't forget is this someone you want me to end of you
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