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VIDEO: Dane Cook Jokes About Colorado Shooting Massacre During Standup Set

1:07 pm, July 27th, 2012

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Dane Cook joked about Colorado shooting tragedy during a standup comedy set on Thursday night.

The comedian was performing at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles when he began talking about last week’s The Dark Knight Rises massacre that left 12 dead and dozens wounded.

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In footage taken from the show, Cook can be heard taking cracks at the quality of the movie before saying, “I know that if none of that had happened, I’m pretty sure that somebody in that theater, about 25 minutes in, realizing it was a piece of crap, probably was like, ‘Ugh, f**king shoot me.’”

The crowd’s reaction to Cook’s joke seems split between gasps, groans and laughter.

Given the horror of the situation in Aurora, Colorado — and how recent the shooting was — Cook’s joke is creating controversy.

Later on Friday, Cook apologized via Twitter, “I am devastated by the recent tragedy in Colorado & did not mean to make light of what happened. I made a bad judgment call with my material last night & regret making a joke at such a sensitive time. My heart goes out to all of the families & friends of the victims.”

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  • Anonymous

    He is a comic so you can’t really be mad at him for a joke no matter how ‘distasteful’ because that is what he does/his job. Was it too soon? Maybe. If he had waited would it have been a ‘better’ joke? Nope, so might as well strike while the iron is hot.

  • http://twitter.com/nirvanaman_1985 sam

    nothing wrong with making a joke about it. The joke itself wasn’t funny though.

  • http://twitter.com/BearcatBetch Chelsea Williamson

    oh god.. you can’t do that.

  • D. Martin

    Would it be funny if HE had a loved one in the movie theater?

  • Guest

    Wrong, shouldn’t have done it

  • V.V

    I’m getting very sick of these comedians thinking they can make jokes about things like this because they’re “comics” and they’re allowed. This happened ONE week ago. Families and are greiving, an entire state is still devastated, people are still burying their loved ones. Children are dead, injured and others are in comas and you want to make a joke? A crappy one at that? He was always a shit comic but now he’s just a shit person. Anyone who supports this kind of behavior, I would like to ask, how would you feel if it was one of your friends or family dead or close to it? Would it be a joke then?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NT76VK53DF5ZO3IA5IUXYKN6NU ~Sandi~

    WAY OVER THE LINE…THIS IS NO WAY A JOKE IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM….WHAT AN ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • be kind

    Profanity doesn’t help you make your point any stronger. Be a lady–there are so few of us left…

  • Sierra

    Not funny.Must be desperate for material. Pathetic!

  • Unbelievable

    You’re main concern about this is someone used the word SHIT, and that’s what you call profanity? I wouldn’t call you a “lady”, I’d call you a flucking MORON!! Jokes about mass killings by demented people are not funny at any time, and this “comedian” needs to be shown that to do so will have an impact on his pocket book.

  • Andy

    This guy is the most successful UNFUNNY comedian of all time. Now in addition to not being funny, he proves he is a complete ASSHOLE too!

  • waddle

    The joke was not funny, but I don’t think the joke was wrong as everyone is saying it is. It was distasteful but that doesn’t necessarily mean it was wrong. It’s not like he was making fun of the victims. He shouldn’t have done it, especially with it being so recent. No matter at what point he said it people would get mad. The joke was distasteful and wrong but I think people are also blowing it out of proportion.

  • V.V

    Thank you, you saved me from having to say it myself.

  • V.V

    Thank you, you saved me from having to say it myself.

  • Regina1180

    To quote Homer Simpson, “Be more funny!”

  • Vanessa

    i have lost ALL respect i had for this man. i dont give a shit if you’re tryin to be funny, lives were lost, and other lives are changed forever and you’re goin to sit there and crack a joke out of it so you can get a fat pay check at the end of that?! you sick fuck! have some compassion. and people still had the audacity to laugh about it. unfuckingbelievable. this is a tragedy but hey, lets all sit here and laugh about it.. makes perfect sense to me. my thoughts and prayers go out to every single life that was affected by this. and im so sorry that some people cant seem to take things like this so seriously… :(

  • Sarah

    The funny thing is that Dane Cook still has the balls to call himself a comedian lol he has never been and will never be funny.

  • Sarah

    Oh piss off

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Natalie-Sexton/100000074052310 Natalie Sexton

    Ugh. Please shut the fuck up, and internalize your fucking gender policing you pretentious goddamn asshole.

  • Rosieposie249

    So he made a mistake. Big fucking deal. (Though, this was the same place that that Seinfeld guy called someone the N word…) Oh well, big whoop, someone makes a joke about something serious, WHO HASN’T?!

  • Sir

    “Oh wait, I’m out of the limelight. I better do something distasteful and disgusting. I know! I’ll joke about the shooting and get all the publicity!”

  • http://twitter.com/GlamFanotic Andrea

    I can and I am. I don’t care if it’s his job to make jokes, that does not make it okay for him to say any disgusting thing that comes into his head. His rape jokes aren’t funny and this isn’t funny. And no, it would not have been a better joke if he had waited, it would still have been a disgusting, desperate attempt at “shocking” humor. Dane Cook has proven time and time again that he does not care about the emotions of other people and is completely fine with making a joke out of a traumatic event that leaves human beings devastated for the rest of their lives. If somebody works on a fur farm, I am still going to be mad at them when they electrocute an animal. If somebody is a professional comedian, I am still going to be mad at them when they say something like this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deborah-Joy/694314939 Deborah Joy

    Too much, too soon. I think it would be different if no lives were lost, but 12 people died. That shouldn’t be joked about.

  • Holly

    Too soon Cook. Just…too soon.

  • Indi

    Why is it that comics seem to think they are a free pass on the insensitive things they say. The excuse is always the same, they were trying to be funny. Seriously who finds a joke like this funny especially when it only happened a few a weeks ago.

  • Snowfall1127

    What a heartless human being…He’s disgusting!!!!!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/I4V3VKL4LAYFAAQ6B7FGQBYR5Y Kathy

    No class at all. Completely tasteless. This type of tragedy should never be the butt of a joke.

  • Djdjk

    Fuck you Dane Cook. I wish someone would just make you listen to your own material for once. That would be punishment enough.

  • St Pierre Adam

    Why are people so sensitive? It’s people like you that make this country terrible. You need to be able to laugh at everything that happens in life. If you don’t or can’t you will have a miserable like complaining about any time a comedian jokes about anything.

    You would probably think he wouldn’t joke about serious things that happen to him but he made jokes about his parents after they died of cancer.

  • Guest

    He would have likely made a joke about it like he did when his parents died of cancer. I love your argument though, it is so simple.

  • Thisguy

    He doesn’t have anything to apologize for, he did what any comic does, takes real life senerios, whether true or not, and turned into a joke. Plain and simple. And besides, what’s been said can’t be unsaid so calm down and start minding your own damn lives. ESPECIALLY if that specific dilemma had no immediate connection to you. You act like you’ve never made a mistake in your lives, fucking let it go, jesus..

  • Pickerpicker26

    Hmmmm, I remember things differently. I recall someone else wrote him a tasteless joke about his parents death, and he spent 20 tearing that person a new one. Apparently he didn’t find it too funny. Face it some shit just isn’t funny.

  • ogie

    He absolutely has a right to say what he said and people have a right not to attend his shows, or buy his merchandise, if they are offended. However, nobody has the right to censor his comments, no matter how inflammatory, or insensitive, they may seem.

  • Robertthorton101

    Are you serious? no it’s not possible to laugh at everything in life, the reason we are offended is because you SHOULD NOT laugh about things like this.
    and no it’s not us that make this a terrible country, it’s people like you who think this stuff is funny.

  • Robertthorton101

    your so full of it “Saint” pierre, why dont you go to a psychiatrist and evaluate your
    bleek existence.

  • Guest

    exactly, people let it roll off they’re back because they’re “comedians” and it’s they’re “job’s”
    people let chris rock get away with this kind of stuff all the time.

  • Guest

    No, their is alot wrong with it sam, you need to understand that.

  • Guest

    he has to be held accountable for what he said, and if he isnt accountable, then who is?

  • Guest

    people with respect for others feelings, thats who.

  • Guest

    that’s where your wrong, you think that just because it doesn’t have any immediate connection to people means they shouldn’t be offended. Thats the same mindset that cook had when he told that joke, and it backfired in his face.

  • Guest

    Who said they would sensor his comments? he said something completely distasteful and offensive, and no they dont just “seem” offensive, they are.

  • Major

    jerk wish he was at the movie theater

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