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Released | July 26, 2005 | |||
Recorded | 2004 | |||
Genre | Comedy | |||
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Label | Comedy Central Records | |||
Producer | Brian Volk-Weiss Dane Cook Jack Vaughn Barry Katz | |||
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Retaliation is the second album by American comedian Dane Cook. It was released on July 26, 2005, by Comedy Central Records.
The CD contain a concert done by Cook at the Comedy Connection in Boston, Massachusetts. The DVD contains Dane's appearances on Shorties Watchin' Shorties and Crank Yankers , Comedy Central's Denis Leary Roast , and Comedy Central's Bar Mitzvah Bash. The Crank Yankers call Foreign Guy English Lessons is previously unreleased.
The album debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, which was the most successful comedy album debut since Steve Martin's A Wild and Crazy Guy in 1978. [3] It went gold six days after its initial release and platinum on November 30, 2005. Retaliation achieved double platinum status on February 15, 2007. [4]
As of 2014, sales in the United States have exceeded 1,376,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. [5]
Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada) [12] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
United States (RIAA) [13] | 2× Platinum | 2,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
The term Karen from Cook's sketch "The Friend Nobody Likes" has become an internet meme that references stereotypes that are common to "basic white women"; the most notable is the stereotype that a Karen will demand to "speak with the manager" of a hypothetical service provider. [14] [15]
A 2007 article in Radar magazine about joke theft noted widespread internet discussion of the similarity between the bits "Struck by a Vehicle", "Itchy Asshole", and "My Son Optimus Prime" from Cook's 2005 album Retaliation and the bits "Guy on a Bike", "Itchy Asshole", and "Kid's Names" from comic Louis C.K.'s 2001 album Live in Houston. [16]
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