Dane Cook’s live standup routine is something I wouldn’t attend if the tickets were free, but there are deeper circles of hellfor example, a seven-hour Dane Cook standup routine. The comic set a standup endurance record Tuesday night, breaking the six-hour record Dave Chapelle set a month ago. Both comics were performing at the Laugh Factory, the LA comedy club with the incredibly generic name. (If events like this are going to become a regular feature, the owners might want to consider re-naming the place Franz Kafka’s Roach Motel.)

Seven hours of Dane Cook. Given his work habits, that probably works out to half an hour, maybe 45 minutes, of original material. To give the guy his due, at one point Cook did order food for the long-suffering audience. Actually, they really weren’t all that hungry. They were just trying to escape by gnawing off their own limbs.