Dane Jeffrey Cook (born March 18, 1972) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He has released three comedy albums, Harmful If Swallowed, Retaliation (which went double platinum[LINK: http://www.sanfranciscocomedycompetition.com/Pages/DaneCook.html] "Great Dane took a bite out of the Competition in 1995", The San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition web site.), and Live from Madison Square Garden. Retaliation became the highest charting comedy album in twenty-eight years.[LINK: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187407,00.html] Time's 100 Most Influential People Cook performs on many television shows and in the fall of 2006 performed in his own HBO special, Vicious Circle. As an actor, Cook has appeared in fifteen films since 1997, including Mystery Men, the 2005 film Waiting..., and starred in th