Posted by Adam

Monday December 6, 2010

DANE Cook is happy to embrace his haters.

The 38-year-old funnyman — who has become one of the world’s most successful comedians over the last two decades — insists he doesn’t mind being despised.

“There’s always going to be the people that embrace you and fill an arena,” he said.

“It’s almost weird to admit, but it becomes a bit of a badge of honor in a strange way. … I find the more that you have detractors and people pounding you, it’s kind of good for everybody. It keeps you in everybody’s discussion.”

“I’ve been approached to do a Broadway play that I’m considering writing,” he added.

“I just want to keep myself busy and creative in any way I can… I want to entertain people. Let them forget about their problems for an hour and a half, two hours, and then we all get to kind of go about our business, but we’ve shared some time together.”

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