Practically 30 years later, Dane Cook dinner nonetheless laments blowing his shot at sketch comedy greatness.
The comic admitted he “positively felt like I let myself down” as he just lately mirrored on skipping his audition for Saturday Night time Stay early in his profession after experiencing a panic assault exterior the constructing.
“On my solution to my audition at SNL, I had a full-on panic assault,” stated Cook dinner on the Fly on the Wall podcast. “I sat on a bench exterior of Rockefeller Plaza. And I didn’t go in. I truly known as my supervisor. I stated … ‘I can’t do it.’ And he’s like, ‘Why? They’re all ready for you. They wanna see you. They’re searching for one thing to fill that void.’”
He stated he was scouted throughout a few of his stand-up reveals shortly after Adam Sandler left the NBC sketch comedy present in 1995. “And I blew it on the day,” Cook dinner recalled.
“I additionally knew from just a few mates that had been on the present that it was that it was extra confrontational, and I used to be very beta at the moment,” he added. “And I used to be like, I’m not gonna be capable of struggle for skits. I can barely, you understand, get my meals order out … for a waiter at lunch. I’m not gonna be capable of survive at SNL.”
Though Cook dinner by no means made it onto the solid of SNL, he hosted the present twice, in 2005 and 2006.
Following his debut comedy album Dangerous If Swallowed in 2003, Cook dinner grew to become identified for roles in a number of comedies, together with Ready… (2005), Worker of the Month (2006), Good Luck Chuck (2007) and My Finest Good friend’s Woman (2008).
