When Dane Cook took the comedy world by storm a few years back (seemingly out of nowhere), I have to admit that I was a fan.  The guy had a lot of energy and  a very unique comedic style.  

However, soon after hitting it big, Cook faced accusations that a lot of his material had been borrowed/stolen from another comedian named Louis C.K.   Cook answered the charges by saying that he and C.K. had a difference of opinion and would simply have to "agree to disagree."

Cook now has earned untold millions as an actor and Hollywood studios evidently don't seem to care that the vast majority of his movies are unsuccessful at the box office.  For all I know, Cook might be starring in movies for the next three decades, but I have a feeling that his fifteen minutes aren't going to last much longer.  Just a hunch. 

Although he has absolutely nothing to do with stand up comedy or movies, ESPN's Colin Cowherd reminds me a little bit of Cook.  How?  Well, Cowherd vaulted into national prominence after Tony Kornheiser decided to give up his radio gig to concentrate on television.  When I first heard Cowherd, I was impressed.  He was funny, entertaining and unlike anyone I had ever heard before.  

However, after listening to Cowherd for about a year, I noticed that the fame and notoriety started going to his head.  What was previously insightful commentary seemed to have morphed into condescending shtick repeated over and over ad nauseam.  Then, like Cook, allegations surfaced that Cowherd was plagiarizing other people's work.      

I still listen to Cowherd's show for about twenty to thirty minutes a day, but have little doubt that he continues to borrow liberally from others to fill time.  Despite his recent assertion that blogs aren't "raw" anymore and there really is "no 2nd act", it's readily apparent that Cowherd is still an avid reader of many blogs and web sites...or at the very least he instructs his staff to do so for him. 

In reality, Cowherd is nothing more than a provocateur in the mold of Rush Limbaugh.  As I mentioned last week, I'm almost certain that he tries to be as controversial and incendiary as possible on a daily basis.  I mean there is no way that someone really thinks Andy Reid is a better coach than Tony Dungy, is there?  

When college basketball analyst Doug Gottlieb called the show to debate Colin about Dungy, it was an absolute blood bath.  After being destroyed by Gottlieb in the Dungy Debate, Cowherd had little to do but abruptly hang up his ESPN colleague and go to commercial.         

Perhaps like Cook, Cowherd will still be around decades from now.  Don't be shocked if he's not though because I have a feeling that his fifteen minutes are coming up as well...  


 




46-year old Demi Moore looks better now than she did twenty-two years ago in "About Last Night"...one of the SDSG's favorites from the 80's.   

Here's one for the ladies.  Tom Cruise is also 46-years old and like Moore (and Benjamin Button), seems to be getting younger.  I'm sure their respective plastic surgeons have made quite a bit of money over the years... 

OK, it's time for another edition of Would You Prefer...?   There are three more questions today and Shawn Kemp will provide the correct answers at the end...  


1)   Would You Prefer...being in an 8' x 8' x 8' steel cage with only stale bread, water and a ravenous Andy Reid for an entire week or living in Jamal Malik's Mumbai, India neighborhood for ten days?

2)  Would You Prefer...listening to Al Davis talk about the Greatness of the Raid-ahhhs for five straight hours on a cross country flight from New York to San Francisco or being trapped on a ferris wheel sixty feet above the ground with a pre-menopausal Ann Coulter?





3)  Would You Prefer...having a sweaty Bill Laimbeer cover you for an entire game or giving Dick Cheney a one-hour massage to alleviate the pulled muscle in his low back? 






Here are the correct answers according to Shawn:


1)  The conditions in that "Slumdog Millionaire" neighborhood were atrocious, but I'd rather stay there for a week and a half than deal with the wrath of Reid.

2)  I'll go with Davis...Coulter just scares me. 

3)  Laimbeer was slimy, but I'd take that any day over Dick Cheney without pants