By Nick A. Zaino III Globe correspondent,Updated April 20, 2022
Dane Cook is ready to move on. He’s been ready, he says, for a couple of years now, time he spent preparing for a new special that he says will change comedy. He had planned to record it at the Wang Theatre in Boston last year, but COVID nixed those plans, and he wound up taping it in Los Angeles.
Now that the special is in the editing process, Cook is set to perform a lot of that material for the last time at the Wang on Saturday. He just turned 50, and he reports he’s in a great space, personally and creatively.
Once a young superstar playing arenas, Cook is happy to have graduated to comedy elder. “The great thing about being the old bull, you don’t get accused of being maybe as braggadocious,” says Cook, who grew up in Arlington. But he’d still like to restate the case for his accomplishments in stand-up. His 2005 album “Retaliation” went double platinum. He sold out some of the biggest venues in the country. His 2009 “ISolated INcident” special was filmed in one complete, uncut shot. He wants to show he can be a force again.
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