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Retaliation (Dane Cook album)

Retaliation
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Live album by Dane Cook
Released July 26, 2005
Recorded 2004
Genre Comedy
Length 103:28
Label Comedy Central Records
Producer Brian Volk-Weiss
Dane Cook
Jack Vaughn
Barry Katz
Dane Cook chronology
Harmful If Swallowed
(2003)
Retaliation
(2005)
Vicious Circle
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars
Okayplayer 4/5 stars

Retaliation is the second album by American comedian Dane Cook. It was released on July 26, 2005 by Comedy Central Records.

The CDs contain a concert done by Cook at The Comedy Connection in Boston, Massachusetts. The DVD contains Dane's appearances on Shorties Watchin' Shorties and Crank Yankers, Comedy Central's Denis Leary Roast and Comedy Central's Bar Mitzvah Bash. The Crank Yankers call Foreign Guy English Lessons is previously unreleased.

The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200, which was the most successful comedy album debut since Steve Martin's A Wild and Crazy Guy in 1978. It went gold six days after its initial release and platinum on November 30, 2005. Retaliation achieved double platinum status on February 15, 2007.

A 2007 article in Radar magazine about joke theft noted widespread internet discussion of the similarity between the bits "Struck by a Vehicle," "Itchy Asshole," and "My Son Optimus Prime" from Cook's 2005 album Retaliation and the bits "Guy on a Bike," "Itchy Asshole," and "Kid's Names" from comic Louis C.K.'s 2001 album Live in Houston.


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