The Soundtrack From Dane Cook's Tourgasm Merced CA

The Soundtrack From Dane Cook's Tourgasm

Various Artists

Rhino, 2007

REVIEW BY: Benjamin Ray

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 02/19/2007

This is NOT a Dane Cook comedy album. It is a modern rock sampler.

That is really what you need to know about this project. I expected that, as one of the most popular comics working today, Cook would have included some of his more famous or newer bits into this project, interspersed with music from the Tourgasm.

I expected wrong. This is a sampler of 12 rock songs, alternated with very short snippets of dialogue from the tour. They are not comedy bits; they are like jokey asides, or phone calls, or stuff like Cook pouring water on a fellow comedian's taxes and saying "This is not Taxgasm." Har har.

Now, I do enjoy Cook very much. He brought a working man's sensibility to the business, starting a following on MySpace and growing it from there. Anyone who saw his special on HBO last year can attest to how popular he has become and how funny he is, which is why this project is such a letdown.