Practically 30 years later, Dane Cook 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 Live early in his profession after experiencing a panic assault exterior the constructing.
“On my strategy to my audition at SNL, I had a full-on panic assault,” stated Prepare dinner on the Fly on the Wall podcast. “I sat on a bench exterior of Rockefeller Plaza. And I didn’t go in. I really referred to 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 exhibits shortly after Adam Sandler left the NBC sketch comedy present in 1995. “And I blew it on the day,” Prepare 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 to struggle for skits. I can barely, you already know, get my meals order out … for a waiter at lunch. I’m not gonna be capable to survive at SNL.”
Though Prepare 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, Prepare dinner turned identified for roles in a number of comedies, together with Ready… (2005), Worker of the Month (2006), Good Luck Chuck (2007) and My Finest Pal’s Woman (2008).
