In the future, everyone will be harassed by a famous person for 15 minutes.

dc's guns go pow! pow!

OK...hmm. I like Alex, and I'm definitely not a fan of Dane Cook's comedy, but this is kind of a lame cred badge to brandish.

There is a tremendous industry built around simultaneously cutting and publicizing celebrities and semi-celebrities, and it's kind of exhausting. I don't know if that response was personally from Dane Cook but even if it was I can sort of understand losing your cool every now and again. (not that I endorse it) I suppose, with so many performers doing unpaid talking heads and blogging as a means of self-promotion, and so many other people adding their anonymous comments to the mix, it becomes hard to ignore or even avoid all the bullshit said about you.

Anyway, Alex obviously has the right to say whatever shit he wants to say about (an incredibly easy target like) Dane Cook. Shit, I am not above engaging in that kind of behavior myself. But you shouldn't be shocked or even delighted if your target eventually fires back. (either online or in person) And, apart from the shitty tone and poor grammar, I don't think the response was totally unjustified or off-base. Alex, would you have said any of that stuff to his face? Probably not. I wouldn't either.

And trading in on someone's (allegedly) angry response to you isn't really a fair moral victory; it's a battle you're fighting entirely on your own turf and your own schedule. And I'm not sure it's the platform I would choose to help my own star rise a bit. Like I said, I like Alex. I just saying, "check out the hatemail I got from Dane Cook" is a little small. (Almost as small as weighing in on it all in the message boards of The Apiary, right??? Honestly, I thought about that and this seemed to be the most appropriate place to say it, since it's a comedy board read by a smaller group of people than, say, The Best Week Ever weblog.)

And yes, I instantly regretted posting that last message. And not just because I accidentally left out the word "think" in the middle of the last paragraph.

I'll bet Dane Cook never struggles with regret.

Todd does have some good points (and I love Todd AND Alex) but I think once you've had sex with Jessica Simpson, you're fair game for the internet bloggers.

I instantly regretted leaving that comment, especially since I meant to add "Todd, you just want Dane to take you on his next Tourgasm."

Totally. And his next tour is actually going to be called "Toural Sex Followed By Vaginal and Anal Tournication, and Prematour Ejaculation." The name will wrap around the bus.

say what you will levin, but i'm keeping my moral victory AND my cred badge (which i will continue to brandish with frightening abandon). also, if i ever thought that much - or that deeply - about what i do for a living, i would've blown my face off long ago.

Blowback from criticism is something to be expected, but when you read Dane Cook's response you need to think for a second. Did some 14-year-old asshole playing Gears of War come up for air and decided to lash at Alex Blagg? Or was it a successful comedian who should rise above this mess enganging in the bullshit?

Given his level of success it's just pathetic.

Elvis shooting a television makes mores sense. And has more creativity than Dane Cook will ever have.

I'm no Dane Cook fan neither but (devil's advocate) maybe this just came from the dude who is in charge of Dane Cook's myspace page (who I'm sure probably thinks and acts alot like D. Cook does).

Whether Dane Cook wrote it or not, reading that response with all its grammatical rapings was Tourtour.

Dane Cook took his precious time to send a message on MySpace that ACTUALLY read, "[Alex Blagg's parents] must wish they had a son that was worth something more than a blogging hater."

A "blogging hater." That is AWESOME.

Must it even be said that BWE posts more clever material in an hour than Dane might dream up after a night of binge drinking and date rape on the outskirts of UNC?

(Whatever. Blagg's cuter, anyway.)

In the end, it's all theater. "I'm rubber, you're glue" via a broadband connection and a gleeful disregard of spellcheck.

We get the (pop) culture we deserve. And I will regret posting this...NOW!

anyone who uses the term "hater" is fair game. What is he 14?

Whatever, wouldn't we all sleep with both of them???

YES.

To be fair, I didn't read ANY of the posts in question. It required a lot of clicking.

Albeit, for different reasons (DC if I had to, AB if he would...oh, if he only would. SEXY COMEDY).

I wrote something mildly, vaguely, not-even-very negative, a throwaway line, about DC on my site last year, and he wrote to me the same day (not through myspace). So I think the odds that it really is him are good ones.

To clarify, I mean he sits around googling himself all day, not that he's a loyal reader of my little blog.

Dane Cook is extremely pathetic for responding in this way. Needs new publicist.

Heather, he doesn't need a new publicist. He needs to enter a stage of career downfall akin to Andrew Dice Clay... Where after and ascent to superstardom few people can explain, he suddenly disappears from the public consciousness only to pop-up every now and then at buffet shows in Vegas and/or Branson.

PS: I actually have a lot more respect for the Diceman than the Cook.

I agree with Anthony. This whole thing (in fact, even the existence of this website The Apiary) makes me wonder about "coming of age" as a comedian in the world of blogs & google & cliquish specialty sites. It seems to encourage or at least enable a level of bickering, virtual fighting, and social maneuvering that should've been abandoned in Junior High School.

I have to say (and I'm not going to include the precursory "I'm not a fan of Dane Cook's comedy" because it isn't relevant) that I agree with Cook about one thing: Spending your creative energy tearing down others is not way to make a name for yourself.

I'll respect Dane a little more when he stops picking his scripts by going, "Eenie Meenie Minee Mogasm". Alex just better not say a bad word about my sweet sweet Larry the Cable Guy, else me and my inbred sheepfucker friends from Central PA are gonna deal an old-fashioned beat down.

Even though this happened days ago, I am still glowing.

Who's Dane Cook?