This is the VICE Interview. Each week we ask a different famous and/or interesting person the same set of questions in a bid to peek deep into their psyche.It wasn't too long ago that Dane Cook was one of the most polarizing figures in comedy. Widely successful, yet an incredibly easy target at whom many people lobbed copious amounts of hate, Cook was sort of a posterboy for entitlement. But Cook has been dealing with this since literally day one. As he told VICE when he came into our Toronto office, "Probably the first time I ever did stand-up comedy, David Cross was hosting his own show at Catch a Rising Star. And after my very first set, I overheard him saying like 'I don't like that guy.' So I had a hater from the first set, 26 years ago. It never got easier after that."
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