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Do yourself a favor. Quit looking up naughty stuff on the internet, put some pants on and go buy Dane Cook: Harmful if Swallowed. If you love me you’ll do it.

Trust me. Pop the DVD in and after 15 minutes, you will experience a deeply satisfying feeling down in the cockles of your heart. Your cockles will thank you. Of all the comedy I’ve seen this year, Harmful if Swallowed was the most refreshing. After that, Chris Rock’s Never Scared was good and so was Dave Chappele’s 2000 release (his latest blows. hard.).

Dane Cook exemplifies the concept that if you can get the audience to like you- they’ll laugh at anything. He manages to be unconventional while avoiding being gimmicky. His style and his content are all over the map, ranting at times about average houseold stuff, then doing full-on Alien impressions. He’s also rather physical on stage.

I hadn’t seen much stand-up before starting it myself, and his act showed me I could be more myself on stage. There’s a reason he was just picked as RollingStone’s “Hot Comic.” Cook is seriously on the rise. He’s got another DVD/CD set coming out in January also.

So buy it. Then have your cockles email me and tell me how much they liked it.