My morbid (some would say masochistic) fascination with comedian-to-the-co-eds/the most needlessly gesticulative man ever, Dane Cook, was given a new shot in the arm this weekend when SNL tapped him to host their season opener. He was paired with The Killers, because SNL knows what the kids like.

Dane came bounding out onstage full of exuberance, observations, and squats.

I prayed that his crouched position was an omen of the jokes to come, such as:

Dipping his testes satchel in wax.

Or:

Defecating on other people’s coats.

But the Dane gods did not hear my prayer. It turns out Dane was just limbering himself up for an animated discussion of negative people. I won’t spoil any of that bit though.

Because I’d like to address Dane’s keen observations about youtube. Dane trained his comedic microscope on the website (was he contractually obligated to?) and came to the conclusion that there sure are a lot of videos on there. It’s like he’s become a cultural anthropologist or something. Dane posits that you could type in any random thing and there would be a video for it. He uses the example of “A:F6,” and then describes a video of an obese child singing this over and over. Until Dane said it, the video didn’t exist, but some enterprising fans proved yet again that they were ready and willing to follow Dane off the cliff into a sea of banality.

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