To be funny you have to be willing to undercut yourself. (Unless you’re Bill Hicks.)

Accept that and we’ll all be better off.

“Dane Cook’s problem is his material. Namely, he doesn’t have any. His comedy comes entirely from his energetic delivery style, but seriously, the man couldn’t find a punchline with a flashlight, a seeing-eye dog, and a platoon of Boy Scouts with merit badges in tracking.”

Yeah but besides all that he’s funny.

I mean even Jerry “Do I even tell jokes” Seinfeld had a TV series for 1 too many years.

Dane Cook is the ROCKSTAR of comedy. And we all know that not all ROCKSTAR are great.

But I’m a Dane Cook fan.

I feel like One’s character wanders a bit. Two’s personality is consistently defined by the fact that he’s a brown-noser who likes prostitutes. One’s distinguishing feature just seems to be that he’s unbelievably dumb, usually of to the point of surreality (he think of him as Caboose from Red vs. Blue), but:

1. It’s not always completely consistent. Sometimes he’s absurdist (Batman fights Popeye!), sometimes surrealist (non sequiturs like the Vin Diesel line), sometimes just dumb.

2. The fact that he’s an idiot doesn’t distinguish him much from Two and Bigwig, because they’re all defined by being dumb — for example, it’s odd that One can even remember the term “prestige director,” let alone deploy it; that’s more of a Two or Bigwig line, I think. I can see him mindlessly repeating something he heard, but I can’t buy that he’s seen King of Kong.

Maybe there should be a fifth character named Screenwriter to fill that niche — misusing highbrow concepts to feed Bigwig’s ego and insult Three’s intelligence. (Like Justin Theroux in Mulholland Drive.) In some cases One and Two are just too dumb to even pretend otherwise.

Seth Gordon (King of Kong), however, is directing a movie with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon called Four Christmases that will likely suck.